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Mental Health Australia

In research, Mental Health Australia stands highest in Psychology (#1,052 of 3,404 worldwide), Health Sciences (#5,429 of 16,688 worldwide) and Clinical Psychology (#593 of 1,390 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Clinical Psychology and Psychology (Clinical Psychology is 27.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,403
of 22,385 · #10,381 all time
Rank in Australia
#191
of 270
Research works
596
▲ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
23k
39.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.06×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
34%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
Mental Health Australia

What is Mental Health Australia known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
PsychologyField #1,052 of 3,404 15.0%233
Health SciencesDomain #5,429 of 16,688 12.5%214
Clinical PsychologySubfield #593 of 1,390 15.0%154
Social SciencesDomain #6,862 of 14,833 14.9%333
MedicineField #7,274 of 14,558 12.9%122

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Mental Health 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 fields of science does Mental Health Australia work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research at Mental Health Australia is in Social Sciences, 34% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Psychology (41%), Medicine (18%), Health Professions (15%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 54 fractional works · 55.9% of its workPsychology: 40 fractional works · 41.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 28 fractional works · 28.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 6.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 3.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 11.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 4.8% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 33 fractional works · 34.1% of its workMedicine: 18 fractional works · 18.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 6 fractional works · 5.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 15 fractional works · 15.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 11 fractional works · 11.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 6.6% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 4.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workToxicology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMental HealthAustralia97fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences34%Social Sciences56%

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. Psychology4041.4%
    2. Social Sciences1111.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities11.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.9%
    5. Decision Sciences10.6%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.5%
    1. Medicine1818.1%
    2. Health Professions1515.3%
    3. Nursing00.4%
    4. Dentistry00.2%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Neuroscience44.5%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.7%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.7%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.5%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    1. Physics and Astronomy11.3%
    2. Environmental Science10.8%
    3. Computer Science10.6%
    4. Mathematics00.3%
    5. Engineering00.2%
    6. Chemistry00.1%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    8. Materials Science00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Mental Health Australia specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Clinical Psychology takes 27.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Clinical PsychologySubfield · 27.7 works27×
  2. PsychologyField · 40.1 works14×
← 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: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.75× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.01× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 5.79× its world share, 15 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.94× its world share, 18 worksMedicineNursing: 0.89× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.42× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 13.59× its world share, 40 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.88× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 13.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology13.59×40 works
  2. Health Professions5.79×15 works
  3. Neuroscience2.75×4 works
  4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.01×1 works
  5. Medicine0.94×18 works
  6. Nursing0.89×0 works
  7. Social Sciences0.88×11 works
  8. Veterinary0.69×0 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.64×1 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.57×1 works
  11. Dentistry0.51×0 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.47×1 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.42×1 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.32×0 works
  15. Mathematics0.27×0 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.16×0 works
  17. Environmental Science0.15×1 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.13×1 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.10×0 works
  20. Computer Science0.08×1 works
  21. Chemistry0.07×0 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.05×0 works
  23. Engineering0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Mental Health Australia?

Ranked on the quality score, Tony McHugh, Jane Nursey and Denise M. Riordan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Mental Health Australia.

  1. 1 Tony McHugh Australia · #881,512 worldwide 1.4k citations · 30 works
  2. 2 Jane Nursey Australia · #1,568,493 worldwide 358 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 Denise M. Riordan Australia · #2,348,845 worldwide 490 citations · 57 works
  4. 4 Leslie R.H. Drew Australia · #2,577,856 worldwide 261 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Tim Peck Australia · #2,623,213 worldwide 49 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Ellen L. Marks Australia · #3,394,947 worldwide 311 citations · 26 works
  7. 7 Grace Groom Australia · #3,416,063 worldwide 471 citations · 19 works
  8. 8 John A Cooper Australia · #3,669,053 worldwide 641 citations · 41 works
  9. 9 Bob Green Australia · #4,366,810 worldwide 609 citations · 50 works
  10. 10 Adam Brett Australia · #4,428,788 worldwide 445 citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Mental Health Australia

What are the most cited papers from Mental Health Australia?

The most cited paper from Mental Health Australia is "The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development" (Vikram Patel et al., 2018), with 3,714 citations. Next come "Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review" (3,447) and "Psychometric properties of the Impact of Event Scale—Revised" (1,991).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development Vikram Patel et al. · The Lancet Open access Oct 2018 3,714
2 Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review Amelia Gulliver, Kathleen M Griffiths, Helen M Christensen · BMC Psychiatry ReviewOpen access Dec 2010 3,447
3 Psychometric properties of the Impact of Event Scale—Revised Mark C. Creamer, Richard Bell, Salvina Failla · Behaviour Research and Therapy 11 Oct 2003 1,991
4 What is Resilience? Helen Herrman, Donna Eileen Stewart, Natalia Diaz-Granados et al. · The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry Open access May 2011 1,309
5 Mental health in elite athletes: International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019) Claudia L. Reardon et al. · British Journal of Sports Medicine Open access 16 May 2019 1,274
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Mental Health Australia?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Depression, Epidemiology, Adolescents, Resilience, Cognitive Therapy, Prevalence and Emotion Regulation.

▲ 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. Mental Health18▲ 13×27 topics
  2. Epidemiology16▲ 4.1×29 topics
  3. Depression12▲ 15×15 topics
  4. Adolescents8▲ 22×6 topics
  5. Resilience8▲ 16×8 topics
  6. Cognitive Therapy7▲ 65×3 topics
  7. Prevalence7▲ 18×10 topics
  8. Emotion Regulation7▲ 22×7 topics
  9. Trauma6▲ 32×4 topics
  10. Mental Disorders6▲ 53×3 topics
  11. Risk Factors6▲ 5.4×10 topics
  12. Anxiety6▲ 12×8 topics
  13. Psychological Distress5▲ 22×4 topics
  14. Psychometric Evaluation5▲ 52×2 topics
  15. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder4▲ 155×1 topic
  16. Psychological Treatment4▲ 155×1 topic
  17. Psychopathology4▲ 26×3 topics
  18. Mental Health Services4▲ 86×2 topics
  19. Patient Engagement4▲ 32×4 topics
  20. Stigma4▲ 31×3 topics
  21. Anxiety Disorders4▲ 37×2 topics
  22. Systematic Review4▲ 77×2 topics
  23. Global Burden4▲ 7.4×5 topics
  24. Prevention Strategies4▲ 39×2 topics
  25. Health Services4▲ 42×2 topics
  26. Public Involvement4▲ 139×1 topic
  27. Recovery Model4▲ 139×1 topic
  28. Help-Seeking Behavior4▲ 78×1 topic
  29. Public Attitudes4▲ 78×1 topic
  30. Social Support4▲ 6.8×9 topics
  31. Coping Strategies4▲ 14×5 topics
  32. Psychological Autopsy4▲ 92×1 topic
  33. Suicidal Behavior4▲ 92×1 topic
  34. Suicide4▲ 74×2 topics
  35. Psychiatric Disorders3▲ 25×4 topics
  36. Stress3▲ 9.2×5 topics
  37. Developmental Trajectories3▲ 28×3 topics
  38. Children3▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Neuroscience3▲ 11×6 topics
  40. Well-being3▲ 8.1×8 topics

Which research topics does Mental Health Australia publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Mental Health Treatment and Access and Suicide and Self-Harm Studies.

Posttraumatic Stress Dis…4Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research: 4 fractional worksMental Health and Patien…4Mental Health and Patient Involvement: 4 fractional worksMental Health Treatment …4Mental Health Treatment and Access: 4 fractional worksSuicide and Self-Harm St…4Suicide and Self-Harm Studies: 4 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 3 fractional worksResilience and Mental Health: 2 fractional worksPsychiatric care and men…2Psychiatric care and mental health services: 2 fractional worksSchizophrenia research and treatment: 2 fractional worksDigital Mental Health Interventions: 2 fractional worksMigration, Health and Trauma: 2 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyGeneral Health ProfessionsSocial PsychologyPsychiatry and Mental health1 others

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

  1. 1 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research Clinical Psychology 4 works
  2. 2 Mental Health and Patient Involvement General Health Professions 4 works
  3. 3 Mental Health Treatment and Access Social Psychology 4 works
  4. 4 Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Clinical Psychology 4 works
  5. 5 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 3 works
  6. 6 Resilience and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 2 works
  7. 7 Psychiatric care and mental health services Clinical Psychology 2 works
  8. 8 Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 2 works
  9. 9 Digital Mental Health Interventions Applied Psychology 2 works
  10. 10 Migration, Health and Trauma Clinical Psychology 2 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 available34.0%not open66.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.1%domestic only76.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Mental Health Australia's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% 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 Mental Health Australia as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00037% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Mental Health Australia0.00051% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mental Health 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%Mental Health Australia17.9% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.9% in 2025.

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