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Research in North Melbourne

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in North Melbourne, Australia. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Australian Centre for Heart Health and Alcohol and Drug Foundation.

Research institutions
4
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
920
▲ 116% vs 2018-21
Citations
20k
21.5 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
12.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1954-2026
73 years on the record
North Melbourne

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality 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 North Melbourne?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Alcohol and Drug FoundationNonprofit 571 #20,462
2Australian Centre for Heart HealthInstitution 329 #15,510
3Royal Australian Chemical InstituteNonprofit 10 not ranked
4Australian Association of Social WorkersInstitution 10 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. 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.

Alcohol and Drug Foundation: 62.1%Australian Centre for Heart Health: 35.8%Royal Australian Chemical Institute: 1.1%Australian Association of Social Workers: 1.1%62%largest
Alcohol and Drug Foundation571 · 62.1%Australian Centre for Heart Health329 · 35.8%Royal Australian Chemical Institute10 · 1.1%Australian Association of Social Workers10 · 1.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which fields of science does North Melbourne work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research in North Melbourne is in Health Sciences, 18% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (65%), Social Sciences (9%), Psychology (7%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 184 fractional works · 71.1% of its workMedicine: 168 fractional works · 64.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 61 fractional works · 23.4% of its workSurgery: 22 fractional works · 8.3% of its workEpidemiology: 18 fractional works · 7.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 13 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 10 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 9 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPhysiology: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNephrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 13 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 9 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 46 fractional works · 17.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 22 fractional works · 8.5% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 18 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 10 fractional works · 3.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 16 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 2.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 13 fractional works · 4.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workToxicology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKNorth Melbourne259fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences6%Health Sciences71%Social Sciences18%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine16864.8%
    2. Health Professions135.1%
    3. Nursing20.7%
    4. Dentistry10.4%
    1. Social Sciences228.5%
    2. Psychology187.0%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance31.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting20.6%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Engineering72.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy20.9%
    3. Environmental Science20.8%
    4. Computer Science20.8%
    5. Chemistry20.6%
    6. Materials Science10.2%
    7. Mathematics00.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology62.3%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics31.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology20.7%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.5%
    5. Neuroscience10.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is North Melbourne strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in North Melbourne is most concentrated in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (22.1× the world share in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine).

  1. Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 51.1 works22×
← 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.

The whole field profile

All 24 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.43× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.59× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.53× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.17× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.07× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.06× its world share, 12 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.38× its world share, 144 worksMedicineNursing: 1.44× its world share, 2 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.68× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.39× its world share, 16 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.61× its world share, 17 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.38×144 works
  2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.53×2 works
  3. Psychology2.39×16 works
  4. Health Professions2.06×12 works
  5. Nursing1.44×2 works
  6. Dentistry1.07×1 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.68×3 works
  8. Social Sciences0.61×17 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.59×1 works
  10. Chemistry0.48×2 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.48×2 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.43×5 works
  13. Neuroscience0.26×1 works
  14. Engineering0.17×6 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.15×1 works
  16. Environmental Science0.14×2 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.10×1 works
  18. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.10×0 works
  19. Computer Science0.09×2 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.09×1 works
  21. Materials Science0.07×1 works
  22. Mathematics0.06×0 works
  23. Decision Sciences0.05×0 works

Which keywords describe research in North Melbourne?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Myocardial Infarction, Guidelines, Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Failure, Coronary Artery Disease, Atherosclerosis, Echocardiography and Obesity.

▲ 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-now 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
  1. Myocardial Infarction23▲ 37×7 topics
  2. Epidemiology20▲ 1.97×47 topics
  3. Cardiovascular Disease20▲ 6.8×25 topics
  4. Guidelines19▲ 15×7 topics
  5. Heart Failure19▲ 16×11 topics
  6. Coronary Artery Disease16▲ 52×3 topics
  7. Inflammation16▲ 2.8×32 topics
  8. Atherosclerosis15▲ 20×10 topics
  9. Echocardiography14▲ 20×8 topics
  10. Obesity14▲ 6.7×12 topics
  11. Magnetic Resonance Imaging12▲ 19×3 topics
  12. Treatment12▲ 3.9×18 topics
  13. Depression12▲ 5.3×13 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Risk Assessment12▲ 56×2 topics
  15. Cardiac Imaging12▲ 37×3 topics
  16. Anxiety11▲ 8.8×9 topics
  17. Substance Use Disorders11▲ 56×2 topics
  18. Radiation Exposure11▲ 42×2 topics
  19. Computed Tomography Angiography11▲ 62×1 topic
  20. Myocardial Perfusion11▲ 62×1 topic
  21. Qualitative Research9▲ 4.1×8 topics
  22. Catheter Ablation9▲ 28×2 topics
  23. Psychiatric Disorders9▲ 24×4 topics
  24. Embodiment8▲ 17×2 topics
  25. Ethical Guidelines8▲ 61×2 topics
  26. Social Science8▲ 89×2 topics
  27. Interactional Expertise8▲ 295×1 topic
  28. Tacit Knowledge8▲ 68×1 topic
  29. Meta-Analysis8▲ 5.4×8 topics
  30. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention8▲ 23×4 topics
  31. Global Burden of Disease8▲ 12×3 topics
  32. Stress Management8▲ 28×2 topics
  33. Impulsivity8▲ 53×2 topics
  34. Alcohol Dependence7▲ 65×1 topic
  35. Motivational Interviewing7▲ 65×1 topic
  36. Cardiac Rehabilitation7▲ 66×1 topic
  37. Coronary Heart Disease7▲ 66×1 topic
  38. Social Sciences7▲ 18×2 topics
  39. Stroke Prevention6▲ 20×2 topics
  40. C-Reactive Protein6▲ 32×2 topics

What research is done in North Melbourne?

Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics: 10 fractional worksEducation, Healthcare and Sociology Research: 7 fractional worksCardiac Health and Mental Health: 6 fractional worksSubstance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes: 6 fractional worksCoronary Interventions and Diagnostics: 6 fractional worksLipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health: 5 fractional worksCardiovascular Function …5Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors: 5 fractional worksCardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments: 5 fractional worksHeart Failure Treatment and Management: 4 fractional worksCardiovascular Disease a…4Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity: 4 fractional works
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingSocial PsychologyCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineEpidemiology1 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 10 works
  2. 2 Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research Social Psychology 7 works
  3. 3 Cardiac Health and Mental Health Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 6 works
  4. 4 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Epidemiology 6 works
  5. 5 Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics Surgery 6 works
  6. 6 Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health Surgery 5 works
  7. 7 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 5 works
  9. 9 Heart Failure Treatment and Management Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works
  10. 10 Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 4 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%North Melbourne11.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 32.9% in 2016.

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