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Geoscience Australia

In research, Geoscience Australia stands highest in Physical Sciences (#1,928 of 10,670 worldwide), Earth and Planetary Sciences (#496 of 1,088 worldwide) and Engineering (#3,929 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Forestry, Geochemistry and Petrology and Geology (Forestry is 106.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#4,738
of 22,385 · #4,850 all time
Rank in Australia
#80
of 270
Research works
1.9k
▲ 46% vs 2018-21
Citations
50k
26.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.11×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
48%
world 40%
International
37%
world 18%
Geoscience Australia

What is Geoscience 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 #1,928 of 10,670 6.5%297 #2498
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #496 of 1,088 6.5%115 #552
EngineeringField #3,929 of 5,901 4.9%107 #4260
Mechanics of MaterialsSubfield #398 of 482 1.1%68 #917

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Geoscience 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 of those standings moved

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

  1. Physical Sciences#2,498 #1,928
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences#552 #496
  3. Engineering#4,260 #3,929
  4. Mechanics of Materials#917 #398
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Geoscience Australia work in?

In 2022-now, 74% of research at Geoscience Australia is in Physical Sciences, 13% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (29%), Engineering (25%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 332 fractional works · 73.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 131 fractional works · 29.2% of its workGeophysics: 48 fractional works · 10.7% of its workGeology: 28 fractional works · 6.3% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 26 fractional works · 5.9% of its workOceanography: 9 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPaleontology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEngineering: 114 fractional works · 25.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 68 fractional works · 15.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 9 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 42 fractional works · 9.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 12 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 31 fractional works · 7.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 27 fractional works · 5.9% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 58 fractional works · 13.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 49 fractional works · 11.0% of its workAnthropology: 38 fractional works · 8.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 56 fractional works · 12.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 52 fractional works · 11.6% of its workForestry: 50 fractional works · 11.0% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKGeoscienceAustralia449fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences74%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences13%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences13129.2%
    2. Engineering11425.5%
    3. Environmental Science429.3%
    4. Computer Science317.0%
    5. Physics and Astronomy51.0%
    6. Energy30.7%
    7. Materials Science30.6%
    8. Chemistry10.3%
    9. Mathematics10.2%
    1. Social Sciences4911.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities40.9%
    3. Decision Sciences20.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.2%
    6. Psychology00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5211.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology30.7%
    3. Neuroscience10.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine10.3%
    2. Health Professions10.2%
    3. Nursing10.2%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Geoscience Australia specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Forestry takes 106.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. ForestrySubfield · 49.6 works106×
  2. Geochemistry and PetrologySubfield · 26.3 works58×
  3. GeologySubfield · 28.3 works47×
  4. GeophysicsSubfield · 47.9 works31×
  5. AnthropologySubfield · 38.0 works30×
  6. Mechanics of MaterialsSubfield · 68.4 works21×
  7. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 131.4 works19×
← 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: 2.44× its world share, 52 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.89× its world share, 31 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 18.65× its world share, 131 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.81× its world share, 3 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.70× its world share, 114 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.88× its world share, 42 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.46× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.31× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.49× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.87× its world share, 50 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 18.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences18.65×131 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.44×52 works
  3. Environmental Science1.88×42 works
  4. Engineering1.70×114 works
  5. Computer Science0.89×31 works
  6. Social Sciences0.87×50 works
  7. Energy0.81×3 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.49×2 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.46×5 works
  10. Nursing0.45×1 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.31×4 works
  12. Chemistry0.17×1 works
  13. Materials Science0.17×3 works
  14. Mathematics0.15×1 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.13×3 works
  16. Veterinary0.11×0 works
  17. Health Professions0.09×1 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.09×1 works
  19. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.09×1 works
  20. Neuroscience0.07×0 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×0 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.04×0 works
  23. Psychology0.04×0 works
  24. Medicine0.01×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Geoscience Australia?

Ranked on the quality score, D.C. Champion, Leo Lymburner and Karol Czarnota lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Geoscience Australia.

  1. 1 D.C. Champion Australia · #81,001 worldwide 8.7k citations · 147 works
  2. 2 Leo Lymburner Australia · #215,330 worldwide 9.6k citations · 81 works
  3. 3 Karol Czarnota Australia · #277,225 worldwide 2k citations · 109 works
  4. 4 Christopher J. Boreham Australia · #311,059 worldwide 5.2k citations · 139 works
  5. 5 David L. Huston Australia · #313,562 worldwide 5.9k citations · 154 works
  6. 6 Keith Sircombe Australia · #322,880 worldwide 4.3k citations · 40 works
  7. 7 Graham A. Logan Australia · #445,415 worldwide 8.2k citations · 83 works
  8. 8 Anandaroop Ray Australia · #603,440 worldwide 1k citations · 50 works
  9. 9 Jonathan Griffin Australia · #610,696 worldwide 1.9k citations · 122 works
  10. 10 Jin Li Australia · #651,246 worldwide 17k citations · 148 works
All ranked researchers at Geoscience Australia

What are the most cited papers from Geoscience Australia?

The most cited paper from Geoscience Australia is "Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes" (Shen‐Su Sun, W. F. McDonough, 1989), with 25,720 citations. Next come "An overview of adakite, tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG), and sanukitoid: relationships and some implications for crustal evolution" (2,785) and "Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research" (2,682).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes Shen‐Su Sun, W. F. McDonough · Geological Society London Special Publications 1989 25,720
2 An overview of adakite, tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG), and sanukitoid: relationships and some implications for crustal evolution Hervé Martin, Robert H. Smithies, Robert Paul Rapp et al. · Lithos 11 Dec 2004 2,785
3 Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research David P. Roy et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment Open access 4 Mar 2014 2,682
4 Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models Mary Susanne Wisz, Robert J. Hijmans, Jin Li et al. · Diversity and Distributions 12 Aug 2008 2,539
5 TEMORA 1: a new zircon standard for Phanerozoic U–Pb geochronology L. P. Black, Sandra L. Kamo, Charlotte M. Allen et al. · Chemical Geology 9 Jun 2003 2,311
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Geoscience Australia?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change Impacts, Grazing Management, Perennial Pastures, Mechanical Properties, Nanocomposites, Thermal Properties, Molecular Dynamics and Carbon Nanotubes.

▲ 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. Climate Change Impacts52▲ 95×5 topics
  2. Grazing Management50▲ 2785×1 topic
  3. Perennial Pastures50▲ 2785×1 topic
  4. Mechanical Properties50▲ 11×5 topics
  5. Nanocomposites49▲ 14×3 topics
  6. Thermal Properties49▲ 89×3 topics
  7. Molecular Dynamics49▲ 62×2 topics
  8. Carbon Nanotubes49▲ 33×1 topic
  9. Graphene49▲ 16×1 topic
  10. Geological Mapping45▲ 127×2 topics
  11. Remote Sensing41▲ 7.5×23 topics
  12. Plate Tectonics40▲ 58×3 topics
  13. Aboriginal Astronomy36▲ 3061×1 topic
  14. Australian Indigenous Languages36▲ 3061×1 topic
  15. Machine Learning35▲ 2.3×17 topics
  16. Climate Change27▲ 2.2×40 topics
  17. Continental Margin26▲ 101×2 topics
  18. Crustal Structure26▲ 101×2 topics
  19. Tectonics26▲ 48×3 topics
  20. Support Vector Machines25▲ 18×4 topics
  21. Hyperspectral Imaging25▲ 20×3 topics
  22. Compositional Data Analysis24▲ 85×1 topic
  23. Mineral Prospectivity24▲ 85×1 topic
  24. GIS-based Modeling23▲ 61×2 topics
  25. Shale Gas21▲ 39×2 topics
  26. Data Integration21▲ 27×2 topics
  27. Stochastic Modeling21▲ 128×2 topics
  28. Geological Modeling20▲ 307×1 topic
  29. Uncertainty Analysis20▲ 307×1 topic
  30. Cenozoic Evolution20▲ 128×1 topic
  31. Rifting20▲ 128×1 topic
  32. Pore Structure18▲ 33×2 topics
  33. Gas Permeability17▲ 40×1 topic
  34. Mudstones17▲ 53×1 topic
  35. Geodetic Measurements17▲ 37×2 topics
  36. Thermodynamic Modeling15▲ 29×2 topics
  37. Geochronology14▲ 47×1 topic
  38. Zircon14▲ 47×1 topic
  39. Subduction12▲ 36×3 topics
  40. Earthquakes11▲ 44×1 topic

Which research topics does Geoscience Australia publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Pasture and Agricultural Systems, Railway Systems and Materials Science, Australian Indigenous Culture and History and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

Pasture and Agricultural Systems: 50 fractional worksRailway Systems and Materials Science: 49 fractional worksAustralian Indigenous Culture and History: 36 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 24 fractional worksGeological Modeling and Analysis: 20 fractional worksGeological and Geophysic…20Geological and Geophysical Studies: 20 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 17 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 14 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic studies: 11 fractional worksGeophysical and Geoelectrical Methods: 6 fractional works
ForestryMechanics of MaterialsAnthropologyArtificial Intelligence3 others

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

  1. 1 Pasture and Agricultural Systems Forestry 50 works
  2. 2 Railway Systems and Materials Science Mechanics of Materials 49 works
  3. 3 Australian Indigenous Culture and History Anthropology 36 works
  4. 4 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 24 works
  5. 5 Geological Modeling and Analysis Geochemistry and Petrology 20 works
  6. 6 Geological and Geophysical Studies Geology 20 works
  7. 7 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 17 works
  8. 8 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 14 works
  9. 9 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 11 works
  10. 10 Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods Geophysics 6 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 available47.6%not open52.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors36.8%domestic only63.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Geoscience Australia's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% higher 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 Geoscience Australia as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Geoscience Australia0.0039% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Geoscience 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%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Geoscience Australia1.4% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.8% in 2009.

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