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ASTRO-3D

In research, ASTRO-3D stands highest in Physics and Astronomy (#564 of 1,417 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#8,561 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics and Astronomy and Physical Sciences (Astronomy and Astrophysics is 125.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#21,891
of 22,385 · #32,261 all time
Rank in Australia
#267
of 270
Research works
172
▲ 14% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.9k
28.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.16×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
95%
world 40%
International
79%
world 18%
ASTRO-3D

What is ASTRO-3D known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physics and AstronomyField #564 of 1,417 17.6%78 #971
Physical SciencesDomain #8,561 of 10,670 17.9%88 #8693

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where ASTRO-3D sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does ASTRO-3D work in?

In 2022-now, 97% of research at ASTRO-3D is in Physical Sciences, 2% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (86%), Engineering (5%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (2%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 89 fractional works · 97.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 79 fractional works · 86.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 60 fractional works · 65.1% of its workInstrumentation: 11 fractional works · 12.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 6 fractional works · 7.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKASTRO-3D91fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences97%Health Sciences0%Social Sciences2%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy7986.5%
    2. Engineering44.6%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences22.2%
    4. Environmental Science11.4%
    5. Computer Science11.4%
    6. Chemistry10.9%
    7. Mathematics00.1%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences10.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities00.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    4. Decision Sciences00.2%
    5. Psychology00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Medicine00.3%
    2. Health Professions00.0%
    3. Veterinary00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does ASTRO-3D specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Astronomy and Astrophysics takes 125.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 59.5 works125×
  2. Physics and AstronomyField · 79.1 works39×
  3. Physical SciencesDomain · 88.8 works2.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.55× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.38× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.31× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 38.88× its world share, 79 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 38.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy38.88×79 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.38×2 works
  3. Chemistry0.55×1 works
  4. Engineering0.31×4 works
  5. Environmental Science0.29×1 works
  6. Veterinary0.19×0 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.19×0 works
  8. Computer Science0.18×1 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.17×0 works
  10. Chemical Engineering0.14×0 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.14×0 works
  12. Mathematics0.10×0 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×0 works
  14. Social Sciences0.06×1 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×0 works
  16. Neuroscience0.04×0 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×0 works
  18. Medicine0.02×0 works
  19. Health Professions0.01×0 works
  20. Psychology0.01×0 works

What are the most cited papers from ASTRO-3D?

The most cited paper from ASTRO-3D is "The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys : Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data" (Abdurrouf et al., 2021), with 1,296 citations. Next come "The Origin of Elements from Carbon to Uranium" (756) and "Star Clusters Across Cosmic Time" (666).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys : Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data Abdurrouf et al. · Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Open access341 authors 3 Dec 2021 1,296
2 The Origin of Elements from Carbon to Uranium Chiaki Kobayashi, Amanda I. Karakas, Maria A. Lugaro · The Astrophysical Journal Open access Sep 2020 756
3 Star Clusters Across Cosmic Time Mark R. Krumholz, Christopher F. McKee, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics ReviewOpen access 21 Jun 2019 666
4 The GALAH+ survey: Third data release Sven Buder et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 29 Apr 2021 626
5 Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure Adam S. Jermyn et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access 23 Feb 2023 596
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at ASTRO-3D?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Star Formation, Black Holes, Dark Matter, Cosmology, Galaxies, Stellar Populations, Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.

▲ 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 institution's work against its share of the world's. The 36 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 36 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation27▲ 517×2 topics
  2. Black Holes19▲ 213×3 topics
  3. Dark Matter17▲ 160×3 topics
  4. Cosmology17▲ 270×2 topics
  5. Galaxies16▲ 602×1 topic
  6. Stellar Populations16▲ 602×1 topic
  7. Exoplanets14▲ 389×1 topic
  8. Stellar Astrophysics14▲ 389×1 topic
  9. Accretion Disks13▲ 292×2 topics
  10. Magnetic Fields13▲ 219×2 topics
  11. Astronomical Instrumentation11▲ 382×1 topic
  12. Spectrograph11▲ 382×1 topic
  13. Turbulence11▲ 132×3 topics
  14. Molecular Clouds10▲ 426×1 topic
  15. Protoplanetary Disks10▲ 426×1 topic
  16. Gravitational Waves7▲ 130×2 topics
  17. Nucleosynthesis7▲ 149×3 topics
  18. Supernovae7▲ 90×2 topics
  19. Gamma-Ray Bursts6▲ 241×1 topic
  20. Neutron Stars6▲ 241×1 topic
  21. Cosmic Rays5▲ 109×2 topics
  22. Neutrinos5▲ 109×2 topics
  23. High-Energy Astrophysics4▲ 177×1 topic
  24. Particle Acceleration4▲ 177×1 topic
  25. Galactic Center4▲ 83×2 topics
  26. Radio Astronomy3▲ 160×2 topics
  27. Epoch of Reionization3▲ 262×1 topic
  28. Low-Frequency Telescopes3▲ 262×1 topic
  29. Event Horizon Telescope3▲ 134×1 topic
  30. X-Ray Astronomy3▲ 134×1 topic
  31. Solar Wind2▲ 29×2 topics
  32. Solar System Abundances2▲ 49×1 topic
  33. Terrestrial Planets2▲ 49×1 topic
  34. Climate Change2▼ 0.86×10 topics
  35. Coronal Mass Ejections2▲ 59×1 topic
  36. Solar Dynamics Observatory2▲ 59×1 topic

Which research topics does ASTRO-3D publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

Galaxies: Formation, Evo…16Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena: 16 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 14 fractional worksAstronomy and Astrophysical Research: 11 fractional worksAstrophysics and Star Fo…10Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies: 10 fractional worksGamma-ray bursts and sup…6Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae: 6 fractional worksAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena: 4 fractional worksRadio Astronomy Observations and Technology: 3 fractional worksAstrophysical Phenomena and Observations: 3 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Science: 2 fractional worksSolar and Space Plasma Dynamics: 2 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsInstrumentationNuclear and High Energy Physics

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

  1. 1 Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Astronomy and Astrophysics 16 works
  2. 2 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 14 works
  3. 3 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 11 works
  4. 4 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 10 works
  5. 5 Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae Astronomy and Astrophysics 6 works
  6. 6 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 4 works
  7. 7 Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology Astronomy and Astrophysics 3 works
  8. 8 Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations Astronomy and Astrophysics 3 works
  9. 9 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 works
  10. 10 Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available95.3%not open4.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors78.6%domestic only21.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has ASTRO-3D's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020052010201520202025
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is ASTRO-3D as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00042% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%ASTRO-3D0.00017% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of ASTRO-3D over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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