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Australian Childhood Foundation

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Research works
67
▼ 48% vs 2018-21
Citations
925
13.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
28%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Australian Childhood Foundation

Not ranked overall: Australian Childhood Foundation is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Australian Childhood Foundation work in?

In all years, 74% of research at Australian Childhood Foundation is in Social Sciences, 19% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (40%), Psychology (29%), Medicine (10%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 50 fractional works · 73.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 27 fractional works · 39.9% of its workEducation: 11 fractional works · 15.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 10.0% of its workSafety Research: 5 fractional works · 6.7% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPublic Administration: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 19 fractional works · 28.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 15 fractional works · 21.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 18.5% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 9.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 8.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 7.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.6% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKAustralianChildhood…67fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences19%Social Sciences74%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 16 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2739.9%
    2. Psychology1928.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities23.2%
    4. Decision Sciences11.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.7%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    1. Medicine79.9%
    2. Health Professions68.2%
    3. Nursing00.4%
    1. Neuroscience23.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.7%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    1. Computer Science11.4%
    2. Environmental Science11.2%
    3. Engineering00.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.99× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 1.88× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksMedicineNursing: 6.38× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.30× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 7.62× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 4.48× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 7.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 9 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology7.62×2 works
  2. Nursing6.38×0 works
  3. Social Sciences4.48×5 works
  4. Health Professions1.88×0 works
  5. Arts and Humanities1.30×0 works
  6. Neuroscience0.99×0 works
  7. Medicine0.25×0 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.23×0 works
  9. Environmental Science0.09×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Australian Childhood Foundation?

Ranked on the quality score, Noel Macnamara, Janise Mitchell and Joe Tucci lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Australian Childhood Foundation.

  1. 1 Noel Macnamara Australia · #1,374,462 worldwide 168 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Janise Mitchell Australia · #1,534,416 worldwide 352 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 Joe Tucci Australia · #2,112,994 worldwide 729 citations · 52 works
  4. 4 Bandara Bandaranayake Australia · #3,548,965 worldwide 38 citations · 24 works
  5. 5 Amanda Watson Australia · #4,743,389 worldwide 84 citations · 105 works
All ranked researchers at Australian Childhood Foundation

What are the most cited papers from Australian Childhood Foundation?

The most cited paper from Australian Childhood Foundation is "The Mental and Physical Health of Homeless Youth: A Literature Review" (Jennifer P. Edidin, Zoe Ganim, Scott J. Hunter et al., 2011), with 457 citations. Next come "A collaborative approach to adopting/adapting guidelines - The Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the early years (Birth to 5 years): an integration of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep" (447) and "An ecological footprint for an early learning centre: identifying opportunities for early childhood sustainability education through interdisciplinary research" (61).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Mental and Physical Health of Homeless Youth: A Literature Review Jennifer P. Edidin, Zoe Ganim, Scott J. Hunter et al. · Child Psychiatry & Human Development 25 Nov 2011 457
2 A collaborative approach to adopting/adapting guidelines - The Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the early years (Birth to 5 years): an integration of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep Anthony David Okely et al. · BMC Public Health Open access Nov 2017 447
3 An ecological footprint for an early learning centre: identifying opportunities for early childhood sustainability education through interdisciplinary research Heidi McNichol, Julie M. Davis, Katherine R. O’Brien · Environmental Education Research 9 Jul 2011 61
4 What does research tell us about young people’s participation in decision making in residential care? A systematic scoping review Lynne McPherson, Meaghan Vosz, Kathomi Gatwiri et al. · Children and Youth Services Review 28 Dec 2020 58
5 Within‐person fluctuations in stressful life events, sleep, and anxiety and depression symptoms during adolescence: a multiwave prospective study Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante, Alexandra M. Rodman, Meg Dennison et al. · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Open access 17 Mar 2020 56
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Australian Childhood Foundation?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Resilience, Child Development, Child Welfare, Psychiatric Disorders, Developmental Trajectories, Adverse Experiences and Childhood Trauma.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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 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. Mental Health17▲ 22×12 topics
  2. Resilience8▲ 31×5 topics
  3. Child Development6▲ 32×6 topics
  4. Child Welfare6▲ 216×2 topics
  5. Psychiatric Disorders6▲ 55×2 topics
  6. Developmental Trajectories6▲ 61×2 topics
  7. Adverse Experiences5▲ 212×1 topic
  8. Childhood Trauma5▲ 115×1 topic
  9. Intervention5▲ 179×2 topics
  10. Early Childhood Education5▲ 112×2 topics
  11. Attachment4▲ 54×2 topics
  12. Adoption4▲ 299×1 topic
  13. Foster Care4▲ 370×1 topic
  14. Academic Achievement4▲ 41×2 topics
  15. School Engagement4▲ 130×1 topic
  16. Student-Teacher Relationships4▲ 130×1 topic
  17. Social Justice3▲ 9.8×8 topics
  18. Evidence-Based Practice3▲ 28×5 topics
  19. Reflective Practice3▲ 27×3 topics
  20. Professional Development3▲ 29×3 topics
  21. Cultural Competence2▲ 30×2 topics
  22. Youth Engagement2▲ 28×2 topics
  23. Narrative Analysis2▲ 50×2 topics
  24. Trauma2▲ 16×2 topics
  25. Adolescents2▲ 8.2×5 topics
  26. Stress2▲ 7.0×2 topics
  27. Caregiver Well-Being2▲ 58×1 topic
  28. Open Dialogue Approach2▲ 147×1 topic
  29. Parenting Stress2▲ 40×1 topic
  30. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy2▲ 147×1 topic
  31. Training Pathways2▲ 71×1 topic
  32. Vocational Education2▲ 37×1 topic
  33. Ethical Considerations2▲ 7.6×2 topics
  34. Language Development2▲ 16×3 topics
  35. Teacher Preparation2▲ 35×3 topics
  36. Burnout2▲ 24×1 topic
  37. Emotion Regulation2▲ 7.4×3 topics
  38. Health Consequences2▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Job Satisfaction2▲ 9.6×2 topics
  40. Retention2▲ 117×1 topic

Which research topics does Australian Childhood Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Child Abuse and Trauma, Child Welfare and Adoption, Intimate Partner and Family Violence and Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving.

Child Abuse and Trauma1Child Abuse and Trauma: 1 fractional worksChild Welfare and Adoption: 1 fractional worksIntimate Partner and Family Violence: 0 fractional worksIntergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving: 0 fractional worksEarly Childhood Education and Development: 0 fractional worksClimate Change, Adaptation, Migration: 0 fractional worksDisaster Management and Resilience: 0 fractional worksFamily and Disability Su…0Family and Disability Support Research: 0 fractional worksLiteracy, Media, and Edu…0Literacy, Media, and Education: 0 fractional worksHomicide, Infanticide, a…0Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse: 0 fractional works
Clinical PsychologySafety ResearchHealthSociology and Political Science2 others

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

  1. 1 Child Abuse and Trauma Clinical Psychology 1 works
  2. 2 Child Welfare and Adoption Safety Research 1 works
  3. 3 Intimate Partner and Family Violence Health 0 works
  4. 4 Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  5. 5 Early Childhood Education and Development Education 0 works
  6. 6 Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  7. 7 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  8. 8 Family and Disability Support Research Clinical Psychology 0 works
  9. 9 Literacy, Media, and Education Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  10. 10 Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse Sociology and Political Science 0 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 available28.1%not open71.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.2%domestic only89.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Australian Childhood Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 48% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Australian Childhood Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000034% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Australian Childhood Foundation0.000038% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Australian Childhood Foundation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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