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Research in Melbourne
Science Explorer records 184 research institutions in Melbourne, Australia. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Monash University, The University of Melbourne and RMIT University.
- Research institutions
- 184 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 463k ▲ 19% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 26.0% record average 16.5%
A city carries no overall standing here. The composite score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in Melbourne?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The University of MelbourneUniversity | 126,164 | #75 | |
| 2 | Monash UniversityUniversity | 102,489 | #72 | |
| 3 | La Trobe UniversityUniversity | 39,159 | #587 | |
| 4 | RMIT UniversityUniversity | 33,179 | #237 | |
| 5 | Swinburne University of TechnologyUniversity | 22,437 | #429 | |
| 6 | The Royal Melbourne HospitalFunder | 12,251 | #2,340 | |
| 7 | Victoria UniversityUniversity | 12,182 | #2,183 | |
| 8 | Royal Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 10,391 | #3,540 | |
| 9 | The Alfred HospitalHospital / health system | 7,760 | #3,510 | |
| 10 | St Vincent's Hospital MelbourneHospital / health system | 6,890 | #4,114 | |
| 11 | Monash HealthHospital / health system | 6,188 | #1,672 | |
| 12 | Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical ResearchNonprofit | 5,613 | #2,007 | |
| 13 | Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreHospital / health system | 5,492 | #1,723 | |
| 14 | Murdoch Children's Research InstituteNonprofit | 4,405 | #2,520 | |
| 15 | Baker Heart and Diabetes InstituteNonprofit | 4,160 | #3,722 | |
| 16 | Austin HealthHospital / health system | 3,933 | #3,790 | |
| 17 | Austin HospitalHospital / health system | 3,412 | #12,366 | |
| 18 | Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental HealthResearch facility | 3,196 | #2,768 | |
| 19 | Royal Women's HospitalHospital / health system | 2,922 | #8,472 | |
| 20 | Bureau of MeteorologyGovernment institution | 2,256 | #3,859 | |
| 21 | Alfred HealthHospital / health system | 2,154 | #4,301 | |
| 22 | Melbourne HealthHospital / health system | 2,025 | #4,169 | |
| 23 | Eastern HealthHospital / health system | 1,914 | #6,394 | |
| 24 | Agriculture VictoriaGovernment institution | 1,879 | #10,369 | |
| 25 | Burnet InstituteNonprofit | 1,321 | #7,203 | |
| 26 | Western HealthHospital / health system | 1,297 | #9,270 | |
| 27 | Heidelberg Repatriation HospitalHospital / health system | 1,277 | #8,551 all time | |
| 28 | Victorian Curriculum and Assessment AuthorityGovernment institution | 1,244 | #6,657 | |
| 29 | Epworth HospitalHospital / health system | 1,201 | #15,428 | |
| 30 | Peter Doherty InstituteResearch facility | 1,151 | #1,745 | |
| 31 | Mental Health Research InstituteResearch facility | 1,132 | #20,385 | |
| 32 | Australian College of OptometryUniversity | 1,104 | #13,683 | |
| 33 | Cancer Council VictoriaFunder | 1,071 | #16,950 | |
| 34 | Museums VictoriaArchive | 1,063 | #18,801 | |
| 35 | BHP (Australia)Company | 993 | #21,951 | |
| 36 | Parks VictoriaGovernment institution | 952 | #17,742 | |
| 37 | Australian SynchrotronResearch facility | 940 | #3,329 | |
| 38 | Mercy Hospital for WomenHospital / health system | 894 | #16,605 | |
| 39 | Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research centreResearch facility | 852 | #9,136 | |
| 40 | Northern HealthHospital / health system | 841 | #12,840 | |
| 41 | AgriBioResearch facility | 783 | #10,621 | |
| 42 | Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference LaboratoryResearch facility | 743 | #13,043 | |
| 43 | Box Hill HospitalHospital / health system | 719 | #21,817 | |
| 44 | Telstra (Australia)Company | 646 | #23,538 | |
| 45 | National Heart Foundation of AustraliaNonprofit | 640 | #24,432 | |
| 46 | Sports Medicine AustraliaUniversity | 638 | #25,096 | |
| 47 | Rio Tinto (Australia)Company | 609 | #26,663 | |
| 48 | O'Brien InstituteResearch facility | 559 | #15,225 | |
| 49 | Western HospitalHospital / health system | 558 | #21,018 all time | |
| 50 | Skin and Cancer FoundationNonprofit | 538 | #20,688 all time | |
| 51 | Jeffrey Modell FoundationNonprofit | 519 | #12,475 all time | |
| 52 | Royal Dental Hospital of MelbourneHospital / health system | 516 | #15,450 | |
| 53 | Department of DefenceGovernment institution | 503 | #18,075 | |
| 54 | Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental ResearchGovernment institution | 465 | #22,640 | |
| 55 | Dandenong HospitalHospital / health system | 465 | #24,117 | |
| 56 | St Vincent's HealthHospital / health system | 452 | #12,117 | |
| 57 | National Ageing Research InstituteNonprofit | 450 | #20,705 | |
| 58 | Royal Australasian College of SurgeonsUniversity | 443 | #24,929 all time | |
| 59 | Speech Pathology AustraliaInstitution | 440 | #22,102 all time | |
| 60 | Australian Psychological SocietyInstitution | 432 | #17,312 |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
The University of Melbourne126k · 28.0%Monash University102k · 22.7%La Trobe University39k · 8.7%RMIT University33k · 7.4%56 others listed150k · 33.2%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Melbourne strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Melbourne is most concentrated in Public Administration, Research and Theory and Music (3.8× the world share in Public Administration).
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 156.0 works3.8×
- Research and TheorySubfield · 69.9 works3.5×
- MusicSubfield · 157.5 works2.5×
- HealthSubfield · 564.0 works2.5×
- Emergency MedicineSubfield · 453.6 works2.4×
- Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 896.8 works2.3×
- Clinical PsychologySubfield · 1,851.4 works2.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
Which keywords describe research in Melbourne?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mental Health, Inflammation, Public Health, Climate Change, Quality of Life, Risk Factors and Globalization.
- Health Equity
- Psychological Impact
- Ethical Considerations
- Physical Activity
- Neoliberalism
- Social Support
- Obesity
- Clinical Trials
- Global Burden
- Mortality
- Genetics
- Healthcare
- Social Media
- Treatment
- Depression
- Quality of Life
- Public Health
- Deep Learning
- Mental Health
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Inflammation
- Machine Learning
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Risk Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Oxidative Stress
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Diagnosis
- Resilience
- Anxiety
- Prevalence
- Management
- Biomarkers
- Meta-Analysis
- Aging
- Primary Care
- Adolescents
- Health Disparities
▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology4,654▲ 1.53×139 topics
- Climate Change2,160◆ 1.04×122 topics
- Inflammation1,986▲ 1.24×83 topics
- Mental Health1,973▲ 1.75×48 topics
- Machine Learning1,881▼ 0.75×94 topics
- Deep Learning1,866▼ 0.71×84 topics
- Globalization1,739◆ 1.15×162 topics
- Public Health1,705▲ 1.52×72 topics
- Sustainability1,637◆ 0.87×123 topics
- Quality of Life1,592▲ 1.43×60 topics
- Risk Factors1,400▲ 1.65×37 topics
- Depression1,263▲ 1.87×26 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease1,258▲ 1.47×39 topics
- Treatment1,243▲ 1.33×52 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,174◆ 0.93×63 topics
- Social Media1,024◆ 0.93×39 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome919▲ 1.47×24 topics
- Healthcare884◆ 1.02×39 topics
- Diagnosis882▲ 1.23×41 topics
- Genetics876▲ 1.63×27 topics
- Resilience815▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Mortality814▲ 1.83×13 topics
- Anxiety793▲ 2.2×12 topics
- Global Burden785▲ 1.90×12 topics
- Prevalence775▲ 2.5×15 topics
- Clinical Trials762▲ 1.48×19 topics
- Management758▲ 1.25×37 topics
- Obesity743▲ 1.28×29 topics
- Biomarkers732▲ 1.39×18 topics
- Social Support681▲ 1.59×20 topics
- Meta-Analysis670▲ 1.48×20 topics
- Neoliberalism667▲ 2.4×27 topics
- Aging660▲ 1.60×19 topics
- Physical Activity659▲ 1.75×13 topics
- Primary Care643▲ 2.2×15 topics
- Ethical Considerations627▲ 2.4×20 topics
- Adolescents607▲ 2.1×11 topics
- Psychological Impact604▲ 2.4×11 topics
- Health Disparities556▲ 2.8×9 topics
- Health Equity496▲ 2.4×6 topics
What research is done in Melbourne?
Clinical PsychologyPsychiatry and Mental healthEconomics and EconometricsRehabilitation4 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 COVID-19 and Mental HealthClinical Psychology 180 works
- 2 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchPsychiatry and Mental health 175 works
- 3 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics and Econometrics 161 works
- 4 Stroke Rehabilitation and RecoveryRehabilitation 161 works
- 5 Australian History and SocietySociology and Political Science 155 works
- 6 Employment and Welfare StudiesGeneral Health Professions 152 works
- 7 Traumatic Brain Injury ResearchEpidemiology 150 works
- 8 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentClinical Psychology 150 works
- 9 Mental Health and Patient InvolvementGeneral Health Professions 148 works
- 10 Housing, Finance, and NeoliberalismFinance 146 works
Research output over time
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.