Another bright year for Australia in Clarivate’s bibliometric analysis of research publication data

Australia rates fourth in the world for share of the 6600 highly-cited science and social science researchers, with 332 – one more than Germany. But there is a bit of gap between Aus and the big three, the US with 2622 (39 per cent), China with 935 (14 per cent) and the UK’s 492 (7 per cent).

Data analyst Clarivate creates the list from citations in its Web of Science index, including researchers with the most citations over a decade in the most cited journals per field.

The new ranking continues a strong run for Australian based researchers, up from 305 last year and 271 in 2019. Institutions that make Clarivate’s top 50 cut fr researchers are Uni Queensland with 44, Uni Melbourne and UNSW (both 36) and Uni Sydney (30, 29 people – Professor Dacheng Tao rates in engineering and computer science).

 The world top five is Harvard U (214), Chinese Academy of Sciences (194), Stanford U (122) the US National Institutes of Health (93) and the Max Planck Society (70).

Tomorrow: Angel Calderon (RMIT) digs into the HiCi data