Question 1

What is Museums Victoria known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Museums Victoria stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,434 of 6,403 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#8,819 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology (Paleontology is 68.3× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Museums Victoria rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Museums Victoria ranks #13,134 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#10,244 all time), and #147 of 270 in Australia.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Museums Victoria?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Andrew F. Hugall, Kevin C. Rowe and Adnan Moussalli lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Museums Victoria.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Museums Victoria?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Museums Victoria is "A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion" (Matthew R. E. Symonds, Adnan Moussalli, 2010), with 2,594 citations. Next come "The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity" (1,082) and "The Toxicogenomic Multiverse: Convergent Recruitment of Proteins Into Animal Venoms" (841).

Question 5

Which research topics does Museums Victoria publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Ichthyology and Marine Biology and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Museums Victoria?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Molecular Phylogeny, Invasive Species, Fisheries, Conservation, Ecology and Biogeography.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Museums Victoria work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 56% of research at Museums Victoria is in Physical Sciences, 34% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (26%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (21%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (21%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Question 8

Is Museums Victoria's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 64% higher than in 2018-2021.