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Macquarie University

In research, Macquarie University stands highest in Social Sciences (#118 of 10,521 worldwide), Health Professions (#35 of 1,928 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#141 of 6,365 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Linguistics and Language, Applied Psychology and Finance — Linguistics and Language is 4.5× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#393
of 28,054 · #436 all time
Rank in Australia
#16
of 391
Research works
44k
▲ 22% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.1M
25.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
33%
world 28%

What is Macquarie 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
Social SciencesDomain #118 of 10,521 31.6%2,880 #165
Health ProfessionsField #35 of 1,928 35.2%310 #146
Social SciencesField #141 of 6,365 29.9%1,259 #155
Health SciencesDomain #288 of 11,982 25.2%1,286 #463
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #98 of 2,578 29.0%431 #152
Business, Management and AccountingField #101 of 2,578 40.1%361 #150
Physical SciencesDomain #589 of 12,888 25.2%2,357 #474
MedicineField #529 of 10,443 21.7%941 #714
PsychologyField #114 of 2,181 33.8%535 #143
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #55 of 916 37.5%183 #118

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Macquarie 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. Social Sciences#165 #118
  2. Health Professions#146 #35
  3. Social Sciences#155 #141
  4. Health Sciences#463 #288
  5. Sociology and Political Science#152 #98
  6. Business, Management and Accounting#150 #101
  7. Physical Sciences#474 #589
  8. Medicine#714 #529
  9. Psychology#143 #114
  10. General Health Professions#118 #55
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 Macquarie University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Linguistics and Language takes 4.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Linguistics and LanguageSubfield · 38.1 works4.5×
  2. Applied PsychologySubfield · 41.7 works4.0×
  3. FinanceSubfield · 85.3 works3.9×
  4. Sensory SystemsSubfield · 20.7 works3.7×
  5. Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 177.6 works3.3×
← 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: 0.57× its world share, 199 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.69× its world share, 269 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.35× its world share, 26 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.32× its world share, 275 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.44× its world share, 11 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.35× its world share, 9 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.35× its world share, 40 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.17× its world share, 667 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.27× its world share, 145 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.82× its world share, 55 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.58× its world share, 639 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.11× its world share, 401 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 91 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.22× its world share, 104 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.26× its world share, 204 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.23× its world share, 8 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.61× its world share, 310 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.67× its world share, 941 worksMedicineNursing: 0.57× its world share, 20 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.62× its world share, 6 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.65× its world share, 349 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.53× its world share, 361 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.40× its world share, 99 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.78× its world share, 278 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.41× its world share, 535 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.36× its world share, 1,259 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 2.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Macquarie University?

Ranked on the composite score, John Sutton, Vivek Gupta and Lesley Hughes lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Macquarie University.

  1. 1 John Sutton · #1,956 worldwide 1.5k citations · 134 works
  2. 2 Vivek Gupta · #3,040 worldwide 1.4k citations · 73 works
  3. 3 Lesley Hughes · #3,137 worldwide 1.5k citations · 70 works
  4. 4 Ian J. Wright · #5,194 worldwide 2.2k citations · 61 works
  5. 5 Mark Westoby · #6,039 worldwide 2k citations · 59 works
  6. 6 Mark Carter · #7,337 worldwide 1.1k citations · 68 works
  7. 7 Mark Johnson · #10,769 worldwide 1.1k citations · 111 works
  8. 8 Ian T. Paulsen · #11,770 worldwide 914 citations · 49 works
  9. 9 David Throsby · #15,787 worldwide 387 citations · 89 works
  10. 10 Norman J. Pearson · #16,349 worldwide 1.4k citations · 76 works
All ranked researchers at Macquarie University

Which keywords describe research at Macquarie University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Globalization, Language Development, Epidemiology, Quality of Life and Ethics.

▲ 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 Change300▲ 1.52×90 topics
  2. Deep Learning286◆ 1.14×77 topics
  3. Machine Learning283▲ 1.18×85 topics
  4. Epidemiology232▼ 0.80×124 topics
  5. Globalization228▲ 1.59×98 topics
  6. Quality of Life152▲ 1.44×54 topics
  7. Sustainability149▼ 0.84×76 topics
  8. Mental Health148▲ 1.38×39 topics
  9. Neural Networks130▲ 1.16×35 topics
  10. Social Media126▲ 1.20×33 topics
  11. Public Health118◆ 1.11×55 topics
  12. Depression114▲ 1.78×22 topics
  13. Artificial Intelligence113◆ 1.13×43 topics
  14. Corporate Governance110▲ 2.0×22 topics
  15. Human Rights107▲ 1.42×53 topics
  16. Healthcare102▲ 1.24×31 topics
  17. Ethics98▲ 2.8×39 topics
  18. Big Data90▲ 1.37×21 topics
  19. Colonialism89▲ 2.6×36 topics
  20. Language Development79▲ 9.0×6 topics
  21. Gender75▲ 1.90×42 topics
  22. Emotion Regulation74▲ 3.2×9 topics
  23. Neoliberalism73▲ 2.8×22 topics
  24. Social Capital73▲ 1.88×15 topics
  25. Health Equity69▲ 3.5×6 topics
  26. Anxiety69▲ 1.99×11 topics
  27. Population Dynamics67▲ 3.6×12 topics
  28. Social Interaction66▲ 2.3×11 topics
  29. Habitat Fragmentation58▲ 3.6×5 topics
  30. Surveillance58▲ 2.9×6 topics
  31. Bilingualism56▲ 5.7×6 topics
  32. Speech Perception55▲ 9.1×3 topics
  33. Multilingualism50▲ 4.1×6 topics
  34. Language Policy49▲ 4.8×5 topics
  35. National Identity49▲ 5.8×6 topics
  36. Hearing Loss48▲ 5.7×4 topics
  37. Bilingual Education48▲ 5.5×3 topics
  38. Decolonization41▲ 7.0×8 topics
  39. Cultural Turn36▲ 22×2 topics
  40. Transnational History34▲ 33×2 topics

Which research topics does Macquarie University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Australian History and Society, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Corporate Finance and Governance and Digital Mental Health Interventions.

Australian History and S…34Australian History and Society: 34 fractional worksHearing Loss and Rehabil…31Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation: 31 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 29 fractional worksDigital Mental Health In…28Digital Mental Health Interventions: 28 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Repr…28Animal Behavior and Reproduction: 28 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 25 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 25 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence …25Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 25 fractional worksMultilingual Education and Policy: 25 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 24 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceCognitive NeuroscienceAccountingApplied Psychology6 others

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

  1. 1 Australian History and SocietySociology and Political Science 34 works
  2. 2 Hearing Loss and RehabilitationCognitive Neuroscience 31 works
  3. 3 Corporate Finance and GovernanceAccounting 29 works
  4. 4 Digital Mental Health InterventionsApplied Psychology 28 works
  5. 5 Animal Behavior and ReproductionEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 28 works
  6. 6 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in DataArtificial Intelligence 25 works
  7. 7 Ethics and Social Impacts of AISafety Research 25 works
  8. 8 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationHealth Informatics 25 works
  9. 9 Multilingual Education and PolicyLinguistics and Language 25 works
  10. 10 Geological and Geochemical AnalysisGeophysics 24 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 available32.7%not open67.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.1%domestic only75.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Macquarie University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% 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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