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Edith Cowan University

In research, Edith Cowan University stands highest in Business, Management and Accounting (#20 of 2,578 worldwide), Social Sciences (#181 of 10,521 worldwide) and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (#1 of 52 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine — Orthopedics and Sports Medicine is 10.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#722
of 28,054 · #1,308 all time
Rank in Australia
#21
of 391
Research works
13k
▲ 47% vs 2013–17
Citations
312k
23.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
34.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
62%
world 28%

What is Edith Cowan University 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
Business, Management and AccountingField #20 of 2,578 50.5%153 #88
Social SciencesDomain #181 of 10,521 40.9%1,025 #295
Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSubfield #1 of 52 31.5%73 #17
Social SciencesField #166 of 6,365 42.8%526 #220
Health SciencesDomain #381 of 11,982 27.9%706 #685
MedicineField #611 of 10,443 26.6%528 #1439
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #156 of 2,578 44.1%196 #377
EducationSubfield #125 of 1,892 53.8%132 #119
EngineeringField #498 of 6,636 34.2%401 #1022
Physical SciencesDomain #1,016 of 12,888 34.1%900 #1888

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Edith Cowan University 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. Business, Management and Accounting#88 #20
  2. Social Sciences#295 #181
  3. Orthopedics and Sports Medicine#17 #1
  4. Social Sciences#220 #166
  5. Health Sciences#685 #381
  6. Medicine#1,439 #611
  7. Sociology and Political Science#377 #156
  8. Education#119 #125
  9. Engineering#1,022 #498
  10. Physical Sciences#1,888 #1,016
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 Edith Cowan University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine takes 10.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSubfield · 72.7 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: 0.44× its world share, 59 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.46× its world share, 69 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.34× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.93× its world share, 42 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.53× its world share, 5 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.34× its world share, 15 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.86× its world share, 188 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.64× its world share, 28 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.60× its world share, 41 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.95× its world share, 401 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.23× its world share, 171 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 35 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.19× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 8 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.02× its world share, 150 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.98× its world share, 528 worksMedicineNursing: 1.72× its world share, 24 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.83× its world share, 67 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.68× its world share, 153 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.26× its world share, 34 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.78× its world share, 47 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.31× its world share, 198 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.48× its world share, 526 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 2.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Edith Cowan University?

Ranked on the composite score, Stefan Iglauer, Hongqi Sun and Kazunori Nosaka lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Edith Cowan University.

  1. 1 Stefan Iglauer Australia · #8,159 worldwide 1.3k citations · 108 works
  2. 2 Hongqi Sun Australia · #11,241 worldwide 1.5k citations · 88 works
  3. 3 Kazunori Nosaka Australia · #33,613 worldwide 319 citations · 71 works
  4. 4 Robert U. Newton Australia · #36,012 worldwide 612 citations · 142 works
  5. 5 Mohiuddin Ahmed Australia · #44,384 worldwide 362 citations · 46 works
  6. 6 Denise Jackson Australia · #49,557 worldwide 366 citations · 37 works
  7. 7 Morris Rosenberg Australia · #50,495 worldwide 600 citations · 29 works
  8. 8 Linda J. Kristjanson Australia · #51,870 worldwide 265 citations · 35 works
  9. 9 Songshan Huang Australia · #61,911 worldwide 453 citations · 67 works
  10. 10 Lai‐Chang Zhang Australia · #62,572 worldwide 1.3k citations · 119 works
All ranked researchers at Edith Cowan University

Which keywords describe research at Edith Cowan University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Injury Prevention, High-Intensity Interval Training, Mental Health, Resistance Training, Epidemiology, Physiological Demands, Training Load and Athletic Training.

▲ 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. Epidemiology119◆ 1.07×103 topics
  2. Deep Learning101◆ 1.05×69 topics
  3. Machine Learning98◆ 1.07×68 topics
  4. Sustainability86▲ 1.26×65 topics
  5. Mental Health84▲ 2.0×40 topics
  6. Climate Change79◆ 1.05×77 topics
  7. Globalization67▲ 1.22×60 topics
  8. Public Health65▲ 1.58×44 topics
  9. Risk Factors60▲ 1.94×33 topics
  10. Quality of Life59▲ 1.46×50 topics
  11. Renewable Energy58▲ 1.45×36 topics
  12. Environmental Impact56▲ 1.18×44 topics
  13. Social Media54▲ 1.35×31 topics
  14. Depression46▲ 1.85×23 topics
  15. Injury Prevention45▲ 13×4 topics
  16. High-Intensity Interval Training44▲ 15×2 topics
  17. Social Justice44▲ 2.7×23 topics
  18. Prevention40▲ 3.4×14 topics
  19. Resistance Training40▲ 15×2 topics
  20. Physical Activity39▲ 2.8×12 topics
  21. Performance Analysis37▲ 6.0×2 topics
  22. Social Capital36▲ 2.4×16 topics
  23. Job Satisfaction35▲ 2.9×14 topics
  24. Physiological Demands35▲ 20×1 topic
  25. Training Load35▲ 20×1 topic
  26. Athletic Training34▲ 13×3 topics
  27. Child Development34▲ 2.8×9 topics
  28. Muscle Injuries33▲ 18×1 topic
  29. Sports Injury33▲ 18×1 topic
  30. Anxiety33▲ 2.5×11 topics
  31. Well-being31▲ 2.9×14 topics
  32. IoT Security31▲ 3.4×3 topics
  33. COVID-19 Impact30▲ 6.4×6 topics
  34. CO2 Sequestration30▲ 5.6×4 topics
  35. Academic Achievement26▲ 5.5×9 topics
  36. Destination Image22▲ 9.4×2 topics
  37. Sustainable Tourism21▲ 6.5×2 topics
  38. Tourist Satisfaction20▲ 7.2×2 topics
  39. Community Perceptions19▲ 9.9×1 topic
  40. Employability18▲ 17×2 topics

Which research topics does Edith Cowan University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Sports Performance and Training, Sports injuries and prevention, Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions.

Sports Performance and Training: 35 fractional worksSports injuries and prevention: 33 fractional worksDiverse Aspects of Tourism Research: 19 fractional worksCO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions: 16 fractional worksDigital Marketing and Social Media: 15 fractional worksEnhanced Oil Recovery Techniques: 14 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration …14Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 14 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and…13Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 13 fractional worksAdvanced Malware Detecti…13Advanced Malware Detection Techniques: 13 fractional worksNetwork Security and Int…12Network Security and Intrusion Detection: 12 fractional works
Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSociology and Political ScienceEnvironmental EngineeringOcean Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 35 works
  2. 2 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 33 works
  3. 3 Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research Sociology and Political Science 19 works
  4. 4 CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions Environmental Engineering 16 works
  5. 5 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 15 works
  6. 6 Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques Ocean Engineering 14 works
  7. 7 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 14 works
  8. 8 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 13 works
  9. 9 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 13 works
  10. 10 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 12 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 available61.9%not open38.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.3%domestic only71.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Edith Cowan University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 47% 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.

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