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Australian Football League

In research, Australian Football League stands highest in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (#118 of 409 worldwide), Medicine (#9,686 of 17,978 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#11,576 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine — Orthopedics and Sports Medicine is 114.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#18,186
of 28,054 · #23,616 all time
Rank in Australia
#303
of 391
Research works
379
▲ 44% vs 2013–17
Citations
14k
36.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
39%
world 28%

What is Australian Football League known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSubfield #118 of 409 32.1%146
MedicineField #9,686 of 17,978 29.3%224
Health SciencesDomain #11,576 of 20,462 29.1%239

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Australian Football League 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

What does Australian Football League specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine takes 114.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSubfield · 28.7 works114×
← 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: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.62× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.48× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.31× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.58× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.83× its world share, 53 worksMedicineNursing: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.81× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.18× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.91× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.51× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Australian Football League?

Ranked on the composite score, Darren J. Burgess lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Australian Football League.

  1. 1 Darren J. Burgess Australia · #1,189,802 worldwide 32 citations · 90 works
All ranked researchers at Australian Football League

Which keywords describe research at Australian Football League?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Injury Prevention, Risk Factors, Resistance Training, Prevention, Athletic Training, High-Intensity Interval Training and Muscle Injuries.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology24▲ 6.3×24 topics
  2. Injury Prevention16▲ 135×3 topics
  3. Risk Factors15▲ 14×6 topics
  4. Resistance Training15▲ 165×2 topics
  5. Athletic Training15▲ 161×2 topics
  6. Prevention15▲ 36×3 topics
  7. High-Intensity Interval Training14▲ 138×2 topics
  8. Muscle Injuries14▲ 220×1 topic
  9. Sports Injury14▲ 220×1 topic
  10. Performance Analysis14▲ 64×1 topic
  11. Training Load14▲ 215×1 topic
  12. Qualitative Research7▲ 8.4×3 topics
  13. Sport Psychology7▲ 72×2 topics
  14. Expert Performance6▲ 267×1 topic
  15. Motor Imagery6▲ 54×1 topic
  16. Recovery5▲ 45×2 topics
  17. Physical Activity4▲ 9.3×9 topics
  18. Concussion4▲ 105×1 topic
  19. Encephalopathy4▲ 67×1 topic
  20. Competitive Balance3▲ 141×1 topic
  21. Prediction Markets3▲ 141×1 topic
  22. Exercise3▲ 22×2 topics
  23. Genetic Mutations3▲ 6.1×4 topics
  24. Low Back Pain2▲ 14×2 topics
  25. Anterior Cruciate Ligament2▲ 59×1 topic
  26. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy2▲ 86×1 topic
  27. Injury Risk2▲ 59×1 topic
  28. Sudden Death2▲ 53×1 topic
  29. Biomechanics2▲ 7.6×4 topics
  30. Health Promotion2▲ 7.0×3 topics
  31. Physical Fitness2▲ 14×3 topics
  32. Gait Analysis2▲ 19×2 topics
  33. Well-being2▲ 4.9×5 topics
  34. Physical Education2▲ 14×2 topics
  35. Intrinsic Motivation2▲ 13×2 topics
  36. Kinematics2▲ 34×2 topics
  37. Foot Strike Patterns2▲ 44×1 topic
  38. Running Injuries2▲ 44×1 topic
  39. Sport Education2▲ 80×1 topic
  40. Teaching Games for Understanding2▲ 80×1 topic

Which research topics does Australian Football League publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Sports injuries and prevention, Sports Performance and Training, Sport Psychology and Performance and Traumatic Brain Injury Research.

Sports injuries and prev…14Sports injuries and prevention: 14 fractional worksSports Performance and T…14Sports Performance and Training: 14 fractional worksSport Psychology and Performance: 6 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury Research: 4 fractional worksSports Analytics and Per…3Sports Analytics and Performance: 3 fractional worksKnee injuries and reconstruction techniques: 2 fractional worksCardiovascular Effects of Exercise: 2 fractional worksMotivation and Self-Concept in Sports: 2 fractional worksSports Dynamics and Biomechanics: 2 fractional worksLower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies: 2 fractional works
Orthopedics and Sports MedicineDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyEpidemiologyEconomics and Econometrics4 others

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

  1. 1 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 14 works
  2. 2 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 14 works
  3. 3 Sport Psychology and Performance Developmental and Educational Psychology 6 works
  4. 4 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 4 works
  5. 5 Sports Analytics and Performance Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  6. 6 Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques Surgery 2 works
  7. 7 Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  8. 8 Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports Social Psychology 2 works
  9. 9 Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  10. 10 Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies Biomedical Engineering 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 available38.9%not open61.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.5%domestic only75.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Australian Football League's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 44% higher than in 2013–2017.

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

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