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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

In research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#145 of 3,409 worldwide), Environmental Science (#166 of 3,551 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#671 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation — Oceanography is 5.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#838
of 28,054 · #319 all time
Rank in Australia
#26
of 391
Research works
44k
▼ 26% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.7M
38.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
29.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
26%
world 28%

What is Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 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
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #145 of 3,409 36.2%344 #8
Environmental ScienceField #166 of 3,551 30.5%490 #49
Physical SciencesDomain #671 of 12,888 27.8%1,895 #274
Computer ScienceField #376 of 4,667 33.5%449 #301
EngineeringField #544 of 6,636 23.9%516 #226
Life SciencesDomain #946 of 7,800 32.1%542 #301
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #229 of 1,884 33.8%198 #239
Plant ScienceSubfield #257 of 1,395 40.7%126 #35
EcologySubfield #119 of 578 31.6%106 #55
Social SciencesDomain #2,362 of 10,521 36.9%221 #964

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 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).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#8 #145
  2. Environmental Science#49 #166
  3. Physical Sciences#274 #671
  4. Computer Science#301 #376
  5. Engineering#226 #544
  6. Life Sciences#301 #946
  7. Artificial Intelligence#239 #229
  8. Plant Science#35 #257
  9. Ecology#55 #119
  10. Social Sciences#964 #2,362
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oceanography takes 5.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OceanographySubfield · 45.3 works5.7×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 114.7 works5.3×
  3. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 32.7 works4.8×
  4. EcologySubfield · 105.5 works4.8×
  5. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 29.3 works4.8×
  6. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 71.7 works4.7×
← 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: 2.56× its world share, 344 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.06× its world share, 160 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.67× its world share, 19 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.35× its world share, 16 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.32× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.81× its world share, 18 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.54× its world share, 24 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.04× its world share, 449 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.77× its world share, 167 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.79× its world share, 46 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.22× its world share, 516 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.49× its world share, 490 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.68× its world share, 67 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.32× its world share, 11 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.69× its world share, 107 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.19× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.28× its world share, 21 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 125 worksMedicineNursing: 0.80× its world share, 11 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.18× its world share, 12 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.14× its world share, 11 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.36× its world share, 33 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.25× its world share, 34 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.54× its world share, 33 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 26 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 84 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 3.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation?

Ranked on the composite score, Ezio Rizzardo, Brian Walker and Simon Ferrier lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

  1. 1 Ezio Rizzardo Australia · #9,508 worldwide 1.4k citations · 52 works
  2. 2 Brian Walker Australia · #11,717 worldwide 1.4k citations · 46 works
  3. 3 Simon Ferrier Australia · #16,402 worldwide 1.2k citations · 46 works
  4. 4 Dimitrios Georgakopoulos Australia · #17,672 worldwide 708 citations · 75 works
  5. 5 Zhuo Chen Australia · #18,335 worldwide 821 citations · 71 works
  6. 6 W. M. Lonsdale Australia · #21,801 worldwide 1.2k citations · 38 works
  7. 7 David H. Solomon Australia · #24,168 worldwide 1k citations · 121 works
  8. 8 John A. Kirkegaard Australia · #24,901 worldwide 437 citations · 47 works
  9. 9 David L. Topping Australia · #25,677 worldwide 623 citations · 41 works
  10. 10 Zhejun Pan Australia · #27,579 worldwide 1.1k citations · 91 works
All ranked researchers at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Which keywords describe research at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Remote Sensing, Sustainability, Global Warming, Biodiversity and Environmental Impact.

▲ 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. Climate Change314▲ 4.1×92 topics
  2. Machine Learning209▲ 2.3×76 topics
  3. Deep Learning204▲ 2.1×73 topics
  4. Sustainability127▲ 1.85×71 topics
  5. Remote Sensing106▲ 3.0×34 topics
  6. Environmental Impact100▲ 2.1×53 topics
  7. Neural Networks91▲ 2.1×33 topics
  8. Renewable Energy89▲ 2.2×38 topics
  9. Biodiversity74▲ 3.5×31 topics
  10. Global Warming62▲ 5.4×13 topics
  11. Security58▲ 3.1×19 topics
  12. Invasive Species57▲ 4.7×21 topics
  13. Energy Efficiency56▲ 2.1×31 topics
  14. Conservation46▲ 3.8×21 topics
  15. Greenhouse Gas Emissions43▲ 5.6×8 topics
  16. Microbial Communities43▲ 3.5×9 topics
  17. Ecosystem Services39▲ 3.6×12 topics
  18. Global Change38▲ 5.1×7 topics
  19. Genetic Diversity37▲ 2.9×21 topics
  20. CO2 Sequestration36▲ 6.6×4 topics
  21. Hydrological Modeling35▲ 5.3×5 topics
  22. Population Dynamics35▲ 4.9×13 topics
  23. Land Use Change33▲ 3.8×7 topics
  24. Shale Gas32▲ 9.0×2 topics
  25. Aquaculture31▲ 4.2×8 topics
  26. Habitat Fragmentation31▲ 4.9×5 topics
  27. DNA Barcoding30▲ 6.6×9 topics
  28. Data Assimilation29▲ 6.6×4 topics
  29. Model Evaluation29▲ 8.3×2 topics
  30. Hydraulic Fracturing29▲ 9.3×2 topics
  31. Metal Recovery29▲ 5.1×3 topics
  32. Ocean Circulation29▲ 7.8×3 topics
  33. Ecosystem Resilience27▲ 6.5×5 topics
  34. Ocean Acidification27▲ 13×3 topics
  35. Fisheries Sustainability26▲ 10×2 topics
  36. Reactive Transport25▲ 17×2 topics
  37. Trophic Cascades24▲ 8.8×2 topics
  38. Differential Privacy24▲ 12×1 topic
  39. Federated Learning24▲ 12×1 topic
  40. Gas Permeability23▲ 8.1×2 topics

Which research topics does Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions.

Privacy-Preserving Techn…24Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 24 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Ap…20Blockchain Technology Applications and Security: 20 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 20 fractional worksCO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions: 18 fractional worksAdversarial Robustness in Machine Learning: 18 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 17 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 17 fractional worksMarine and fisheries res…16Marine and fisheries research: 16 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 15 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 14 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceInformation SystemsMechanics of MaterialsEnvironmental Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 24 works
  2. 2 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 20 works
  3. 3 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 20 works
  4. 4 CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions Environmental Engineering 18 works
  5. 5 Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 18 works
  6. 6 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 17 works
  7. 7 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 17 works
  8. 8 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 16 works
  9. 9 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 15 works
  10. 10 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 14 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 available26.3%not open73.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.3%domestic only77.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 26% lower 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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