Griffith U shines in the Nature (as in the journal group) global list of 16 institutions rapidly rising up the research ranks. Griffith U rates 88^th on the Nature list of 200 world-wide achievers. The only other Australian institution on the list is the University of Wollongong, at 148. The index tracks publication in 82 “high-quality natural science journals”. It measures article count  and fractional counts for multi author work

Overall Australia rated 11^th in the word, behind Spain in tenth place. The ANZ institutions on the top 500 universities and research organisations lists, (announced earlier this year) are: UniQueensland (110), Monash U (119), UNSW (130), UniMelbourne (158), ANU (178), UniSydney (228), UWA (347), CSIRO (372),UniAdelaide (389), UniWollongong (436), UniOtago (441) Curtin U (489) and UniAuckland (499).

No ANZ institutions made the world top 100 in chemistry or physical sciences.

In earth and environmental sciences UNSW leads the locals at 44^th in the world, followed by ANU (55), CSIRO (71) and UoQ (86).

The University of Queensland (60^th) is the only institution to make the world top 100 for life sciences.