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BHP (Australia)

In research, BHP (Australia) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#6,976 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#14,727
of 22,385 · #9,028 all time
Rank in Australia
#164
of 270
Research works
993
▲ 20% vs 2018-21
Citations
20k
20.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
23%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%
BHP (Australia)

What is BHP (Australia) 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
Physical SciencesDomain #6,976 of 10,670 9.7%69 #3865

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where BHP (Australia) 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 BHP (Australia) work in?

In 2022-now, 65% of research at BHP (Australia) is in Physical Sciences, 16% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (35%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (14%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 74 fractional works · 65.1% of its workEngineering: 40 fractional works · 35.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 14.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 5.1% of its workMechanics of Materials: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11 fractional works · 9.9% of its workGeophysics: 7 fractional works · 5.8% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 8 fractional works · 7.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 7.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 18 fractional works · 16.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 16 fractional works · 14.0% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 6.0% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 14.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 4.1% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKBHP (Australia)113fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences65%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences15%

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. Engineering4035.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences119.9%
    3. Environmental Science87.3%
    4. Computer Science87.2%
    5. Materials Science33.0%
    6. Physics and Astronomy21.4%
    7. Chemistry10.6%
    8. Energy10.5%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    10. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1614.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.9%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Social Sciences87.0%
    2. Decision Sciences32.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance22.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting22.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    6. Psychology00.2%
    1. Medicine32.7%
    2. Health Professions11.2%
    3. Nursing00.2%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2.95× its world share, 16 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.35× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.92× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6.31× its world share, 11 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.34× its world share, 40 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.46× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.87× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.61× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.62× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.95× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.03× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.56× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 6.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences6.31×11 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.95×16 works
  3. Decision Sciences2.95×3 works
  4. Engineering2.34×40 works
  5. Environmental Science1.46×8 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.03×2 works
  7. Computer Science0.92×8 works
  8. Materials Science0.87×3 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.62×2 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.61×2 works
  11. Social Sciences0.56×8 works
  12. Energy0.53×0 works
  13. Health Professions0.47×1 works
  14. Chemistry0.38×1 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.35×2 works
  16. Nursing0.34×0 works
  17. Chemical Engineering0.28×0 works
  18. Medicine0.14×3 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.14×0 works
  20. Neuroscience0.09×0 works
  21. Psychology0.08×0 works
  22. Mathematics0.06×0 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at BHP (Australia)?

Ranked on the quality score, Chin Eng Loo, G.W. Walter and Stuart K. Nicol lead among researchers whose main affiliation is BHP (Australia).

  1. 1 Chin Eng Loo Australia · #1,499,643 worldwide 1.4k citations · 50 works
  2. 2 G.W. Walter Australia · #1,782,081 worldwide 1.9k citations · 52 works
  3. 3 Stuart K. Nicol Australia · #2,105,505 worldwide 920 citations · 41 works
  4. 4 Kathy J. Ehrig Australia · #2,153,062 worldwide 3.5k citations · 158 works
  5. 5 J. D. Watson Australia · #2,956,155 worldwide 149 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 John F. McCarthy Australia · #3,248,596 worldwide 913 citations · 45 works
  7. 7 Jules V. Dubrawski Australia · #3,404,336 worldwide 537 citations · 28 works
  8. 8 Allan Waters Australia · #3,439,366 worldwide 407 citations · 33 works
  9. 9 E. H. van Leeuwen Australia · #3,548,367 worldwide 249 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Kim Hockings Australia · #3,557,991 worldwide 472 citations · 29 works
All ranked researchers at BHP (Australia)

What are the most cited papers from BHP (Australia)?

The most cited paper from BHP (Australia) is "A loop-shaping design procedure using H/sub infinity / synthesis" (Duncan McFarlane, K. Glover, 1992), with 1,057 citations. Next come "A review of impedance plot methods used for corrosion performance analysis of painted metals" (730) and "Review of the High-Temperature Oxidation of Iron and Carbon Steels in Air or Oxygen" (666).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A loop-shaping design procedure using H/sub infinity / synthesis Duncan McFarlane, K. Glover · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Jun 1992 1,057
2 A review of impedance plot methods used for corrosion performance analysis of painted metals G.W. Walter · Corrosion Science 1986 730
3 Review of the High-Temperature Oxidation of Iron and Carbon Steels in Air or Oxygen R.Y. Chen, W.Y.D. Yeun · Oxidation of Metals Jun 2003 666
4 Wet Oxidation and Catalytic Wet Oxidation Suresh K. Bhargava, James Tardio, J. Sarada Prasad et al. · Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Open access 25 Jan 2006 481
5 An experimental and numerical study of the angle of repose of coarse spheres Yu Chun Zhou, Bao‐Hua Xu, Aibing Yu et al. · Powder Technology May 2002 435
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at BHP (Australia)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Metallurgy, Energy Efficiency, Sustainability, Metal Recovery, Databases, Thermochemical, Food Security and Policy.

▲ 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. Metallurgy10▲ 148×2 topics
  2. Sustainability10▲ 3.6×14 topics
  3. Energy Efficiency8▲ 7.2×8 topics
  4. Machine Learning7▲ 1.97×12 topics
  5. Metal Recovery6▲ 29×3 topics
  6. Databases5▲ 169×1 topic
  7. Thermochemical5▲ 169×1 topic
  8. Food Security5▲ 8.7×4 topics
  9. Policy5▲ 22×5 topics
  10. Climate Change5▲ 1.67×14 topics
  11. Plate Tectonics5▲ 30×3 topics
  12. Microbial Communities5▲ 9.8×3 topics
  13. Agriculture5▲ 11×2 topics
  14. Bioleaching5▲ 130×1 topic
  15. Microbial Ecology5▲ 24×2 topics
  16. Sulfide Minerals5▲ 130×1 topic
  17. Tectonics4▲ 33×3 topics
  18. Development4▲ 10×4 topics
  19. Technology4▲ 6.8×4 topics
  20. India4▲ 45×3 topics
  21. Rural Development4▲ 9.4×4 topics
  22. Economic Analysis4▲ 23×2 topics
  23. Production4▲ 39×2 topics
  24. Geological Mapping4▲ 40×2 topics
  25. Iron Oxides4▲ 167×1 topic
  26. Reduction Kinetics4▲ 167×1 topic
  27. Geochronology3▲ 44×1 topic
  28. Optimization3▲ 6.7×5 topics
  29. Zircon3▲ 44×1 topic
  30. Support Vector Machines3▲ 9.2×4 topics
  31. Electrical Properties3▲ 29×4 topics
  32. Circular Economy3▲ 9.3×4 topics
  33. Strategic Planning3▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Nanobubbles3▲ 83×1 topic
  35. Water Treatment3▲ 19×1 topic
  36. Environmental Impacts2▲ 7.7×5 topics
  37. Rock Mechanics2▲ 22×3 topics
  38. Agricultural Practices2▲ 51×2 topics
  39. Comminution2▲ 63×1 topic
  40. Mineral Liberation Analysis2▲ 63×1 topic

Which research topics does BHP (Australia) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics, Metal Extraction and Bioleaching, Agricultural Economics and Practices and Iron and Steelmaking Processes.

Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics: 5 fractional worksMetal Extraction and Bioleaching: 5 fractional worksAgricultural Economics a…4Agricultural Economics and Practices: 4 fractional worksIron and Steelmaking Pro…4Iron and Steelmaking Processes: 4 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 3 fractional worksMinerals Flotation and Separation Techniques: 3 fractional worksMineral Processing and G…2Mineral Processing and Grinding: 2 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 2 fractional worksMining Techniques and Economics: 2 fractional worksRock Mechanics and Modeling: 2 fractional works
Mechanical EngineeringBiomedical EngineeringGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesGeophysics4 others

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

  1. 1 Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics Mechanical Engineering 5 works
  2. 2 Metal Extraction and Bioleaching Biomedical Engineering 5 works
  3. 3 Agricultural Economics and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 works
  4. 4 Iron and Steelmaking Processes Mechanical Engineering 4 works
  5. 5 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 3 works
  6. 6 Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques Water Science and Technology 3 works
  7. 7 Mineral Processing and Grinding Mechanical Engineering 2 works
  8. 8 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  9. 9 Mining Techniques and Economics Control and Systems Engineering 2 works
  10. 10 Rock Mechanics and Modeling Mechanics of Materials 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 available22.9%not open77.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.3%domestic only74.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has BHP (Australia)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is BHP (Australia) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00038% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%BHP (Australia)0.00073% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of BHP (Australia) 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%all institutions10.0% in 2025BHP (Australia)6.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 16.2% in 2024.

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