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Australian Psychological Society

In research, Australian Psychological Society stands highest in Psychology (#1,102 of 3,404 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#7,701 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Psychology (Psychology is 11.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#18,281
of 22,385 · #11,525 all time
Rank in Australia
#204
of 270
Research works
432
▼ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
15k
33.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
49%
world 40%
International
36%
world 18%
Australian Psychological Society

What is Australian Psychological Society 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
PsychologyField #1,102 of 3,404 17.1%148
Social SciencesDomain #7,701 of 14,833 18.6%218

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Australian Psychological Society 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 Australian Psychological Society work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research at Australian Psychological Society is in Social Sciences, 26% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Psychology (35%), Medicine (20%), Neuroscience (14%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 56 fractional works · 52.3% of its workPsychology: 37 fractional works · 34.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 13 fractional works · 12.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10 fractional works · 9.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 8 fractional works · 7.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 10.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 7 fractional works · 6.7% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 27 fractional works · 25.5% of its workMedicine: 22 fractional works · 20.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 4 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 16 fractional works · 15.5% of its workNeuroscience: 15 fractional works · 13.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 12 fractional works · 11.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 7 fractional works · 6.7% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAustralianPsychological…107fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences26%Social Sciences52%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology3734.7%
    2. Social Sciences1110.6%
    3. Decision Sciences32.8%
    4. Arts and Humanities32.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting11.2%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.6%
    1. Medicine2220.5%
    2. Health Professions55.0%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Neuroscience1513.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Computer Science33.1%
    2. Environmental Science21.5%
    3. Mathematics10.9%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.4%
    5. Engineering00.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    7. Chemistry00.1%
    8. Materials Science00.1%
    9. Energy00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Australian Psychological Society specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Psychology takes 11.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. PsychologyField · 37.0 works11×
← 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: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 8.45× its world share, 15 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.76× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.89× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.07× its world share, 22 worksMedicineNursing: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.85× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.88× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 11.38× its world share, 37 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.84× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 11.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology11.38×37 works
  2. Neuroscience8.45×15 works
  3. Decision Sciences2.88×3 works
  4. Health Professions1.89×5 works
  5. Medicine1.07×22 works
  6. Arts and Humanities0.85×3 works
  7. Social Sciences0.84×11 works
  8. Mathematics0.76×1 works
  9. Computer Science0.40×3 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.37×1 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.36×0 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.31×0 works
  13. Environmental Science0.30×2 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.28×1 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.20×0 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.19×1 works
  17. Nursing0.16×0 works
  18. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.09×0 works
  19. Chemistry0.07×0 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.06×0 works
  21. Engineering0.03×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.02×0 works
  23. Energy0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Australian Psychological Society?

Ranked on the quality score, Susie E. L. Burke, Harry Stuart and Sarah Cavanagh lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Australian Psychological Society.

  1. 1 Susie E. L. Burke Australia · #1,685,468 worldwide 2.3k citations · 42 works
  2. 2 Harry Stuart Australia · #1,963,862 worldwide 9 citations · 44 works
  3. 3 Sarah Cavanagh Australia · #2,064,233 worldwide 611 citations · 22 works
  4. 4 Sabine Hammond Australia · #2,765,997 worldwide 226 citations · 22 works
  5. 5 Jill Giese Australia · #4,518,717 worldwide 102 citations · 20 works
  6. 6 Ross Crisp Australia · #4,691,788 worldwide 473 citations · 48 works
  7. 7 Mick Symons Australia · #4,934,380 worldwide 9 citations · 27 works
  8. 8 Lyn Bender Australia · #5,072,939 worldwide 22 citations · 28 works
  9. 9 Lyn Littlefield Australia · #6,142,971 worldwide 799 citations · 71 works
All ranked researchers at Australian Psychological Society

What are the most cited papers from Australian Psychological Society?

The most cited paper from Australian Psychological Society is "Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study" (Michele Joy Gelfand et al., 2011), with 3,323 citations. Next come "Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation" (1,545) and "Non-psychotic mental disorders in the perinatal period" (1,347).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study Michele Joy Gelfand et al. · Science Open access 26 May 2011 3,323
2 Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation Nicholas T. Van Dam, Marieke K. van Vugt, David R. Vago et al. · Perspectives on Psychological Science Open access 10 Oct 2017 1,545
3 Non-psychotic mental disorders in the perinatal period Louise Michele Howard, Emma Molyneaux, Cindy‐Lee Dennis et al. · The Lancet Nov 2014 1,347
4 Association of Amyloid and Tau With Cognition in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease Bernard Jimmy Hanseeuw et al. · JAMA Neurology Open access 3 Jun 2019 907
5 Predicting psychological and subjective well-being from personality: A meta-analysis. Jeromy Anglim, Sharon Horwood, Luke David Smillie et al. · Psychological Bulletin Open access 16 Jan 2020 852
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Australian Psychological Society?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Depression, Epidemiology, Prevalence, Adolescents, Genetics, Psychopathology and Neurobiological Correlates.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology10▲ 2.3×27 topics
  2. Mental Health9▲ 5.9×23 topics
  3. Depression7▲ 7.0×13 topics
  4. Prevalence5▲ 12×8 topics
  5. Adolescents5▲ 14×6 topics
  6. Genetics5▲ 6.7×8 topics
  7. Risk Factors5▲ 4.2×10 topics
  8. Psychopathology4▲ 24×3 topics
  9. Neurobiological Correlates4▲ 41×3 topics
  10. Anxiety4▲ 8.5×9 topics
  11. Treatment4▲ 3.3×6 topics
  12. Emotion Regulation4▲ 12×8 topics
  13. Mental Disorders4▲ 32×3 topics
  14. Neural Correlates4▲ 37×6 topics
  15. Public Health4▲ 2.5×19 topics
  16. Emotion4▲ 17×7 topics
  17. Meta-Analysis4▲ 6.1×7 topics
  18. Obesity4▲ 4.3×5 topics
  19. Social Cognition4▲ 18×8 topics
  20. Body Image3▲ 43×3 topics
  21. Psychological Factors3▲ 15×3 topics
  22. Resilience3▲ 6.2×9 topics
  23. Well-being3▲ 8.0×11 topics
  24. Aging3▲ 5.4×6 topics
  25. Eating Disorders3▲ 64×1 topic
  26. Network Analysis3▲ 25×2 topics
  27. Neurological Disorders3▲ 5.0×10 topics
  28. Depression Symptoms3▲ 54×1 topic
  29. Emotion Dynamics3▲ 54×1 topic
  30. Metacognition3▲ 17×3 topics
  31. Cognitive Impairment3▲ 9.6×4 topics
  32. Neuroscience3▲ 7.8×8 topics
  33. Functional Connectivity2▲ 16×1 topic
  34. Neurobiology2▲ 8.7×8 topics
  35. Psychological Impact2▲ 7.0×6 topics
  36. Resting-State fMRI2▲ 30×1 topic
  37. Self-Esteem2▲ 38×4 topics
  38. Diagnostic Criteria2▲ 9.4×3 topics
  39. Social Identity2▲ 24×4 topics
  40. Stigma2▲ 15×4 topics

Which research topics does Australian Psychological Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Mental Health Research Topics, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies and Memory Processes and Influences.

Eating Disorders and Beh…3Eating Disorders and Behaviors: 3 fractional worksMental Health Research T…3Mental Health Research Topics: 3 fractional worksFunctional Brain Connect…2Functional Brain Connectivity Studies: 2 fractional worksMemory Processes and Inf…2Memory Processes and Influences: 2 fractional worksMultiple Sclerosis Research Studies: 2 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury Research: 2 fractional worksEvolutionary Psychology …2Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior: 2 fractional worksSocial and Intergroup Ps…2Social and Intergroup Psychology: 2 fractional worksBehavioral Health and In…1Behavioral Health and Interventions: 1 fractional worksPsychology of Moral and …1Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment: 1 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyCognitive NeurosciencePathology and Forensic Medicine3 others

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

  1. 1 Eating Disorders and Behaviors Clinical Psychology 3 works
  2. 2 Mental Health Research Topics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 3 works
  3. 3 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
  4. 4 Memory Processes and Influences Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
  5. 5 Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies Pathology and Forensic Medicine 2 works
  6. 6 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 2 works
  7. 7 Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 2 works
  8. 8 Social and Intergroup Psychology Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  9. 9 Behavioral Health and Interventions Applied Psychology 1 works
  10. 10 Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment Cognitive Neuroscience 1 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 available49.0%not open51.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors36.3%domestic only63.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Australian Psychological Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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 Australian Psychological Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00050% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Australian Psychological Society0.00038% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

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

still counting10%20%30%Australian Psychological Society13.7% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 27.4% in 2012.

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