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CSIRO Land and Water

In research, CSIRO Land and Water stands highest in Environmental Science (#1,463 of 3,551 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#6,510 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Science — Global and Planetary Change is 17.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#8,077
of 28,054 · #2,547 all time
Rank in Australia
#131
of 391
Research works
3.7k
▼ 22% vs 2013–17
Citations
218k
58.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
31.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
32%
world 28%

What is CSIRO Land and Water 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
Environmental ScienceField #1,463 of 3,551 29.9%103 #269
Physical SciencesDomain #6,510 of 12,888 27.8%143 #2191

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where CSIRO Land and Water 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 CSIRO Land and Water specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Global and Planetary Change takes 17.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 26.3 works17×
  2. Environmental ScienceField · 103.2 works10×
← 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: 2.86× its world share, 27 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.95× its world share, 10 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.77× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4.49× its world share, 14 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.55× its world share, 17 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 10.31× its world share, 103 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.18× its world share, 7 worksMedicineNursing: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.87× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 10.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at CSIRO Land and Water?

Ranked on the composite score, Tim R. McVicar, Jon Olley and Glenn Newnham lead among researchers whose main affiliation is CSIRO Land and Water.

  1. 1 Tim R. McVicar Australia · #10,172 worldwide 1.3k citations · 74 works
  2. 2 Jon Olley Australia · #55,248 worldwide 657 citations · 36 works
  3. 3 Glenn Newnham Australia · #57,220 worldwide 580 citations · 29 works
  4. 4 Arnold G. Dekker Australia · #58,338 worldwide 477 citations · 34 works
  5. 5 Peter Dillon Australia · #128,321 worldwide 238 citations · 47 works
  6. 6 Juan Pablo Guerschman Australia · #171,626 worldwide 256 citations · 23 works
  7. 7 Glen Walker Australia · #190,723 worldwide 230 citations · 30 works
  8. 8 Anna H. Kaksonen Australia · #198,249 worldwide 305 citations · 46 works
  9. 9 Lu Zhang Australia · #198,379 worldwide 702 citations · 132 works
  10. 10 Barbara Robson Australia · #237,370 worldwide 165 citations · 35 works
All ranked researchers at CSIRO Land and Water

Which keywords describe research at CSIRO Land and Water?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, Hydrological Modeling, Land Use Change, Invasive Species, Global Warming and Ecosystem Services.

▲ 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 Change57▲ 10×64 topics
  2. Remote Sensing16▲ 6.4×23 topics
  3. Biodiversity15▲ 9.8×24 topics
  4. Sustainability13▲ 2.7×33 topics
  5. Hydrological Modeling12▲ 26×5 topics
  6. Land Use Change12▲ 20×6 topics
  7. Invasive Species11▲ 13×14 topics
  8. Environmental Impact11▲ 3.1×33 topics
  9. Global Warming10▲ 12×10 topics
  10. Ecosystem Services10▲ 13×8 topics
  11. Water Resources10▲ 19×6 topics
  12. Water Quality9▲ 12×8 topics
  13. Model Evaluation9▲ 37×2 topics
  14. Sediment Transport8▲ 26×4 topics
  15. Biodiversity Conservation8▲ 11×9 topics
  16. Habitat Fragmentation8▲ 19×4 topics
  17. Global Change8▲ 15×5 topics
  18. Conservation8▲ 9.0×12 topics
  19. Health Effects8▲ 6.4×14 topics
  20. Population Dynamics7▲ 14×7 topics
  21. Toxicity6▲ 7.4×10 topics
  22. Global Hydrology6▲ 47×1 topic
  23. Uncertainty Assessment6▲ 47×1 topic
  24. Drought6▲ 33×3 topics
  25. Risk Perception6▲ 11×4 topics
  26. Ecosystem Resilience6▲ 21×5 topics
  27. Biomass Estimation6▲ 19×3 topics
  28. Bioaccumulation6▲ 31×3 topics
  29. Evapotranspiration6▲ 36×2 topics
  30. Global Distribution5▲ 41×3 topics
  31. Habitat Selection5▲ 32×2 topics
  32. Ecosystem5▲ 21×4 topics
  33. Environmental Impacts5▲ 8.5×8 topics
  34. Conservation Biology5▲ 22×4 topics
  35. Satellite Imagery5▲ 17×2 topics
  36. Flood Risk4▲ 28×1 topic
  37. Greenhouse Gas Emissions4▲ 8.2×7 topics
  38. Surface Water Mapping4▲ 30×1 topic
  39. Aboveground Biomass4▲ 24×2 topics
  40. Biological Invasions4▲ 25×3 topics

Which research topics does CSIRO Land and Water publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Groundwater flow and contamination studies and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Hydrology and Watershed …6Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 6 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment an…4Flood Risk Assessment and Management: 4 fractional worksGroundwater flow and contamination studies: 4 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Conservation: 4 fractional worksPlant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 4 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 4 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 3 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…3Species Distribution and Climate Change: 3 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 3 fractional worksToxic Organic Pollutants Impact: 3 fractional works
Water Science and TechnologyGlobal and Planetary ChangeEnvironmental EngineeringEcology4 others

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

  1. 1 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 6 works
  2. 2 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 4 works
  3. 3 Groundwater flow and contamination studies Environmental Engineering 4 works
  4. 4 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 4 works
  5. 5 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 4 works
  6. 6 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 4 works
  7. 7 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 3 works
  8. 8 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 3 works
  9. 9 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 3 works
  10. 10 Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 3 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 available32.3%not open67.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.9%domestic only69.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has CSIRO Land and Water's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% 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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