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Australian Maritime College

In research, Australian Maritime College stands highest in Engineering (#3,714 of 6,636 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#7,234 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ocean Engineering — Ocean Engineering is 41.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#12,734
of 28,054 · #15,171 all time
Rank in Australia
#217
of 391
Research works
699
▲ 12% vs 2013–17
Citations
16k
22.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
34.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
74%
world 28%

What is Australian Maritime College known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
EngineeringField #3,714 of 6,636 31.0%64 #4566
Physical SciencesDomain #7,234 of 12,888 32.5%95 #10286

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Australian Maritime College 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 Maritime College specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ocean Engineering takes 41.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 26.4 works41×
← 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: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Chemical Engineering: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.76× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.12× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.21× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.50× its world share, 64 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.24× its world share, 14 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.52× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.88× its world share, 8 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.86× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.92× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.76× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Australian Maritime College?

Ranked on the composite score, Jonathan Binns, Irene Penesis and Wenming Shi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Australian Maritime College.

  1. 1 Jonathan Binns Australia · #455,809 worldwide 51 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Irene Penesis Australia · #490,836 worldwide 80 citations · 39 works
  3. 3 Wenming Shi Australia · #501,622 worldwide 167 citations · 32 works
  4. 4 Gregor Macfarlane Australia · #521,156 worldwide 81 citations · 33 works
  5. 5 Shuhong Chai Australia · #567,653 worldwide 54 citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Jiangang Fei Australia · #581,248 worldwide 55 citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Stephen Cahoon Australia · #659,922 worldwide 81 citations · 51 works
  8. 8 Shu‐Ling Chen Australia · #728,722 worldwide 118 citations · 42 works
  9. 9 Hossein Enshaei Australia · #846,838 worldwide 71 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Martin Renilson Australia · #971,106 worldwide 36 citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at Australian Maritime College

Which keywords describe research at Australian Maritime College?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Maritime Transportation, Environmental Impact, Human Factors, Collision Avoidance, Path Planning, Risk Assessment, Autonomous Ships and Unmanned Surface Vehicles.

▲ 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. Maritime Transportation19▲ 298×2 topics
  2. Environmental Impact16▲ 7.6×14 topics
  3. Human Factors12▲ 131×3 topics
  4. Collision Avoidance12▲ 53×2 topics
  5. Path Planning12▲ 76×2 topics
  6. Climate Change11▲ 3.5×16 topics
  7. Risk Assessment11▲ 13×4 topics
  8. Autonomous Ships10▲ 283×1 topic
  9. Unmanned Surface Vehicles10▲ 283×1 topic
  10. Air Quality10▲ 44×4 topics
  11. Fuel Consumption10▲ 106×2 topics
  12. Emissions9▲ 38×5 topics
  13. Sustainability9▲ 3.1×22 topics
  14. Shipping9▲ 148×2 topics
  15. Alternative Fuels9▲ 200×2 topics
  16. Emission Control Areas9▲ 318×1 topic
  17. Ship Propulsion9▲ 318×1 topic
  18. Supply Chain Management8▲ 7.1×10 topics
  19. CFD Simulations7▲ 443×1 topic
  20. Ship Maneuvering7▲ 443×1 topic
  21. Renewable Energy7▲ 4.0×13 topics
  22. Numerical Simulation7▲ 19×6 topics
  23. Fluid-Structure Interaction6▲ 32×3 topics
  24. Container Terminals5▲ 152×1 topic
  25. Operations Research5▲ 22×1 topic
  26. Free-Surface Flows4▲ 77×2 topics
  27. SPH Method4▲ 111×1 topic
  28. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics4▲ 111×1 topic
  29. Bayesian Networks4▲ 34×1 topic
  30. Fault Tree Analysis4▲ 62×1 topic
  31. Finite Element Analysis3▲ 12×4 topics
  32. Corrosion3▲ 20×3 topics
  33. Natural Gas3▲ 28×3 topics
  34. Risk Analysis3▲ 26×2 topics
  35. Pipeline3▲ 22×3 topics
  36. Pitting Corrosion3▲ 48×2 topics
  37. Reliability Assessment3▲ 56×2 topics
  38. Autonomous Vehicles3▲ 11×2 topics
  39. Control Strategies3▲ 17×3 topics
  40. Steel Structures3▲ 59×2 topics

Which research topics does Australian Maritime College publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Maritime Navigation and Safety, Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency, Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability and Maritime Ports and Logistics.

Maritime Navigation and …10Maritime Navigation and Safety: 10 fractional worksMaritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency: 9 fractional worksShip Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability: 7 fractional worksMaritime Ports and Logistics: 5 fractional worksFluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions: 4 fractional worksRisk and Safety Analysis4Risk and Safety Analysis: 4 fractional worksStructural Integrity and Reliability Analysis: 3 fractional worksWave and Wind Energy Systems: 2 fractional worksUnderwater Acoustics Research: 2 fractional worksCruise Tourism Development and Management: 2 fractional works
Ocean EngineeringEnvironmental EngineeringIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringComputational Mechanics4 others

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

  1. 1 Maritime Navigation and Safety Ocean Engineering 10 works
  2. 2 Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency Environmental Engineering 9 works
  3. 3 Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability Ocean Engineering 7 works
  4. 4 Maritime Ports and Logistics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 5 works
  5. 5 Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions Computational Mechanics 4 works
  6. 6 Risk and Safety Analysis Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 4 works
  7. 7 Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis Mechanical Engineering 3 works
  8. 8 Wave and Wind Energy Systems Ocean Engineering 2 works
  9. 9 Underwater Acoustics Research Oceanography 2 works
  10. 10 Cruise Tourism Development and Management Transportation 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 available74.3%not open25.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors32.4%domestic only67.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Australian Maritime College's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 12% 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.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.