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Orygen

In research, Orygen stands highest in Psychology (#667 of 2,121 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#5,944 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Clinical Psychology and Psychology (Clinical Psychology is 24.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,687
of 22,385 · #8,476 all time
Rank in Australia
#110
of 270
Research works
461
▲ 81% vs 2018-21
Citations
24k
53.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.14×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
63%
world 40%
International
40%
world 18%
Orygen

What is Orygen 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
PsychologyField #667 of 2,121 23.0%72 #893
Social SciencesDomain #5,944 of 9,585 24.7%94 #7073

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Orygen 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 Orygen work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research at Orygen is in Social Sciences, 30% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Psychology (45%), Medicine (21%), Social Sciences (10%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 100 fractional works · 58.7% of its workPsychology: 76 fractional works · 45.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 44 fractional works · 26.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 13 fractional works · 7.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 9 fractional works · 5.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 8 fractional works · 4.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 10.1% of its workGender Studies: 6 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 3.4% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPhilosophy: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 51 fractional works · 29.9% of its workMedicine: 36 fractional works · 21.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 19 fractional works · 11.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 14 fractional works · 8.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 11 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 16 fractional works · 9.4% of its workNeuroscience: 11 fractional works · 6.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 6 fractional works · 3.7% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKOrygen170fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences30%Social Sciences59%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology7645.0%
    2. Social Sciences1710.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities42.6%
    4. Decision Sciences10.4%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.4%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    1. Medicine3621.3%
    2. Health Professions148.4%
    3. Veterinary00.2%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Neuroscience116.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.1%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Environmental Science21.1%
    2. Computer Science10.6%
    3. Mathematics00.2%
    4. Engineering00.1%
    5. Chemistry00.0%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Orygen specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Clinical Psychology takes 24.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Clinical PsychologySubfield · 44.2 works25×
  2. PsychologyField · 76.5 works15×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 4.17× its world share, 12 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.91× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.18× its world share, 14 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.11× its world share, 36 worksMedicineNursing: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.12× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.91× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 14.77× its world share, 76 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.80× its world share, 17 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 14.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology14.77×76 works
  2. Neuroscience4.17×12 works
  3. Health Professions3.18×14 works
  4. Veterinary1.12×0 works
  5. Medicine1.11×36 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.91×0 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.91×4 works
  8. Social Sciences0.80×17 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.43×1 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.39×4 works
  11. Environmental Science0.22×2 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.19×1 works
  13. Mathematics0.18×0 works
  14. Nursing0.14×0 works
  15. Computer Science0.07×1 works
  16. Dentistry0.06×0 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×0 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×0 works
  19. Chemistry0.03×0 works
  20. Business, Management and Accounting0.03×0 works
  21. Engineering0.01×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Orygen?

Ranked on the quality score, Shaunagh O’Sullivan, Jessica Spark and Wilma Peters lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Orygen.

  1. 1 Shaunagh O’Sullivan Australia · #443,655 worldwide 622 citations · 35 works
  2. 2 Jessica Spark Australia · #572,585 worldwide 334 citations · 37 works
  3. 3 Wilma Peters Australia · #1,364,129 worldwide 1k citations · 51 works
  4. 4 Katherine A. Godfrey Australia · #2,022,355 worldwide 3.1k citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Orygen

What are the most cited papers from Orygen?

The most cited paper from Orygen is "Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literature" (Ronald C. Kessler, G. Paul Amminger, Sergio Aguilar‐Gaxiola et al., 2007), with 3,576 citations. Next come "Mental health of young people: a global public-health challenge" (3,204) and "Mapping the Onset of Psychosis: The Comprehensive Assessment of At-Risk Mental States" (2,160).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literature Ronald C. Kessler, G. Paul Amminger, Sergio Aguilar‐Gaxiola et al. · Current Opinion in Psychiatry Open access 4 Jun 2007 3,576
2 Mental health of young people: a global public-health challenge Vikram Patel, Alan J. Flisher, Sarah Elisabeth Hetrick et al. · The Lancet 28 Mar 2007 3,204
3 Mapping the Onset of Psychosis: The Comprehensive Assessment of At-Risk Mental States Alison Ruth Yung, Alison Ruth Yung, Hok Pan Yuen et al. · Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry Open access Nov 2005 2,160
4 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
5 The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality John Blake Torous, Sandra Bucci, Imogen H. Bell et al. · World Psychiatry Open access 9 Sep 2021 1,217
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Orygen?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Depression, Mental Health, Adolescents, Prevalence, Psychopathology, Epidemiology, Anxiety and Risk Factors.

▲ 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. Depression30▲ 20×16 topics
  2. Mental Health28▲ 12×23 topics
  3. Epidemiology22▲ 3.3×27 topics
  4. Adolescents21▲ 34×7 topics
  5. Prevalence16▲ 23×10 topics
  6. Psychopathology15▲ 50×3 topics
  7. Risk Factors14▲ 7.7×14 topics
  8. Anxiety14▲ 18×10 topics
  9. Cognitive Therapy14▲ 73×4 topics
  10. Social Cognition12▲ 40×7 topics
  11. Emotion Regulation12▲ 23×7 topics
  12. Psychological Distress12▲ 28×5 topics
  13. Metabolic Syndrome12▲ 8.4×6 topics
  14. Mental Disorders11▲ 57×3 topics
  15. Antipsychotic Drugs11▲ 164×1 topic
  16. Neurocognitive Deficits11▲ 164×1 topic
  17. Prevention Strategies9▲ 52×2 topics
  18. Suicidal Behavior9▲ 130×1 topic
  19. Suicide9▲ 103×1 topic
  20. Adherence9▲ 41×2 topics
  21. Genetics9▲ 7.2×8 topics
  22. Mobile Health9▲ 35×2 topics
  23. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy8▲ 34×3 topics
  24. Anxiety Disorders8▲ 44×2 topics
  25. Neurobiological Correlates8▲ 46×3 topics
  26. Behavioral Activation8▲ 70×1 topic
  27. Internet-based Interventions8▲ 70×1 topic
  28. Psychiatric Disorders7▲ 32×4 topics
  29. Neurobiology7▲ 16×9 topics
  30. Children7▲ 18×2 topics
  31. Developmental Trajectories7▲ 34×2 topics
  32. Behavioral Problems7▲ 49×1 topic
  33. Global Burden7▲ 7.2×5 topics
  34. Parenting7▲ 32×1 topic
  35. Stigma6▲ 28×2 topics
  36. Well-being6▲ 9.4×9 topics
  37. Neuroimaging6▲ 13×6 topics
  38. Health Services6▲ 38×2 topics
  39. Help-Seeking Behavior6▲ 74×1 topic
  40. Public Attitudes6▲ 74×1 topic

Which research topics does Orygen publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Schizophrenia research and treatment, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Digital Mental Health Interventions and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

Schizophrenia research and treatment: 11 fractional worksSuicide and Self-Harm Studies: 9 fractional worksDigital Mental Health In…8Digital Mental Health Interventions: 8 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psy…7Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 7 fractional worksMental Health Treatment and Access: 6 fractional worksMental Health Research Topics: 5 fractional worksGender Roles and Identit…4Gender Roles and Identity Studies: 4 fractional worksMental Health and Patient Involvement: 4 fractional worksMental Health and Psychiatry: 4 fractional worksPersonality Disorders and Psychopathology: 3 fractional works
Psychiatry and Mental healthClinical PsychologyApplied PsychologySocial Psychology4 others

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

  1. 1 Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 11 works
  2. 2 Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Clinical Psychology 9 works
  3. 3 Digital Mental Health Interventions Applied Psychology 8 works
  4. 4 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 7 works
  5. 5 Mental Health Treatment and Access Social Psychology 6 works
  6. 6 Mental Health Research Topics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 5 works
  7. 7 Gender Roles and Identity Studies Gender Studies 4 works
  8. 8 Mental Health and Patient Involvement General Health Professions 4 works
  9. 9 Mental Health and Psychiatry Philosophy 4 works
  10. 10 Personality Disorders and Psychopathology Clinical Psychology 3 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 available62.7%not open37.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors39.7%domestic only60.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Orygen's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 81% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Orygen as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00076% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Orygen0.00070% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Orygen 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 counting20%40%Orygen22.0% 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 32.6% in 2007.

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