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Sax Institute

In research, Sax Institute stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,623 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,387 of 5,988 worldwide) and Arts and Humanities (#818 of 1,896 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in History, Archeology and Anthropology (History is 32.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#4,315
of 22,385 · #2,859 all time
Rank in Australia
#73
of 270
Research works
4.5k
▼ 33% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.9k
2.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
22%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Sax Institute

What is Sax Institute 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
Social SciencesDomain #1,623 of 9,585 2.7%490 #918
Social SciencesField #1,387 of 5,988 3.0%261 #859
Arts and HumanitiesField #818 of 1,896 2.0%172 #428
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #695 of 1,187 1.6%79 #457
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #1,739 of 2,526 3.2%68 #1885
HistorySubfield #182 of 218 1.2%63 #150

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sax Institute 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. Social Sciences#918 #1,623
  2. Social Sciences#859 #1,387
  3. Arts and Humanities#428 #818
  4. Political Science and International Relations#457 #695
  5. Sociology and Political Science#1,885 #1,739
  6. History#150 #182
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 Sax Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 81% of research at Sax Institute is in Social Sciences, 9% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (43%), Arts and Humanities (28%), Psychology (4%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 529 fractional works · 81.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 282 fractional works · 43.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 87 fractional works · 13.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 74 fractional works · 11.4% of its workEducation: 32 fractional works · 4.9% of its workAnthropology: 30 fractional works · 4.6% of its workDemography: 14 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGender Studies: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCultural Studies: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 185 fractional works · 28.4% of its workHistory: 69 fractional works · 10.5% of its workArcheology: 41 fractional works · 6.3% of its workPhilosophy: 17 fractional works · 2.6% of its workClassics: 15 fractional works · 2.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 11 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMuseology: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReligious studies: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 29 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 23 fractional works · 3.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 17 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 15 fractional works · 2.4% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 12 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 58 fractional works · 8.9% of its workComputer Science: 16 fractional works · 2.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 16 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPaleontology: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 43 fractional works · 6.6% of its workHealth Professions: 24 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 20 fractional works · 3.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedicine: 18 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 1.9% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 22 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 fractional works · 1.9% of its workFood Science: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSax Institute652fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences81%

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. Social Sciences28243.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities18528.4%
    3. Psychology294.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance172.6%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting121.9%
    6. Decision Sciences40.5%
    1. Computer Science162.4%
    2. Environmental Science162.4%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences121.8%
    4. Engineering101.5%
    5. Energy20.2%
    6. Physics and Astronomy10.2%
    7. Materials Science10.2%
    8. Mathematics10.2%
    9. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Health Professions243.7%
    2. Medicine182.8%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences121.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology71.1%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    4. Neuroscience10.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Sax Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: History takes 32.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HistorySubfield · 68.6 works33×
  2. ArcheologySubfield · 41.4 works21×
  3. AnthropologySubfield · 29.9 works16×
  4. Arts and HumanitiesField · 185.4 works9.8×
← 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: 0.40× its world share, 12 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.20× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.31× its world share, 16 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.13× its world share, 12 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.48× its world share, 16 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.41× its world share, 24 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 18 worksMedicineNursing: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 9.85× its world share, 185 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.58× its world share, 12 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.56× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.21× its world share, 17 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.47× its world share, 29 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.42× its world share, 282 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 9.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities9.85×185 works
  2. Social Sciences3.42×282 works
  3. Psychology1.47×29 works
  4. Health Professions1.41×24 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.21×17 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.13×12 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting0.58×12 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.56×4 works
  9. Environmental Science0.48×16 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.40×12 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.39×1 works
  12. Computer Science0.31×16 works
  13. Energy0.27×2 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.20×7 works
  15. Mathematics0.16×1 works
  16. Medicine0.15×18 works
  17. Nursing0.15×0 works
  18. Engineering0.10×10 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.10×1 works
  20. Neuroscience0.08×1 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.06×0 works
  22. Materials Science0.06×1 works
  23. Dentistry0.04×0 works
  24. Chemistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Sax Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Sally Redman, Haakon A. Ikonomou and Tim Flohr Sørensen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sax Institute.

  1. 1 Sally Redman Australia · #601,415 worldwide 5.4k citations · 158 works
  2. 2 Haakon A. Ikonomou Australia · #725,794 worldwide 151 citations · 64 works
  3. 3 Tim Flohr Sørensen Australia · #812,804 worldwide 1.7k citations · 97 works
  4. 4 Peter Fibiger Bang Australia · #876,359 worldwide 3.2k citations · 156 works
  5. 5 Rune Iversen Australia · #945,368 worldwide 1.6k citations · 104 works
  6. 6 Morten Rasmussen Australia · #1,072,929 worldwide 457 citations · 66 works
  7. 7 Anna B. Williamson Australia · #1,098,496 worldwide 2.6k citations · 104 works
  8. 8 Mary Haines Australia · #1,264,953 worldwide 1.9k citations · 49 works
  9. 9 Katy Overstreet Australia · #1,412,067 worldwide 258 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Peter Fernando Australia · #1,522,166 worldwide 626 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Sax Institute

What are the most cited papers from Sax Institute?

The most cited paper from Sax Institute is "Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia" (Morten E. Allentoft et al., 2015), with 1,663 citations. Next come "An overview of global rice production, supply, trade, and consumption" (1,613) and "Polypharmacy cutoff and outcomes: five or more medicines were used to identify community-dwelling older men at risk of different adverse outcomes" (1,199).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia Morten E. Allentoft et al. · Nature Open access 9 Jun 2015 1,663
2 An overview of global rice production, supply, trade, and consumption Sumithra Muthayya, Jonathan D. Sugimoto, Scott J. Montgomery et al. · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Sep 2014 1,613
3 Polypharmacy cutoff and outcomes: five or more medicines were used to identify community-dwelling older men at risk of different adverse outcomes Danijela Gnjidic, Sarah Nicole Hilmer, Fiona Blyth et al. · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 27 Jun 2012 1,199
4 Divide and conquer: A defense of functional localizers Rebecca R. Saxe, Matthew Brett, Nancy Kanwisher · NeuroImage 27 Apr 2006 582
5 The Global Hidden Hunger Indices and Maps: An Advocacy Tool for Action Sumithra Muthayya, Jee Hyun Rah, Jonathan D. Sugimoto et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 12 Jun 2013 561
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Sax Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Religion, Archaeology, Cultural Exchange, International Relations, Identity, Education, Material Culture and Rituals.

▲ 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. Religion54▲ 18×19 topics
  2. Education51▲ 4.6×29 topics
  3. Archaeology51▲ 61×10 topics
  4. Cultural Exchange47▲ 56×8 topics
  5. Globalization46▲ 3.6×60 topics
  6. International Relations45▲ 28×16 topics
  7. Identity42▲ 8.9×38 topics
  8. Material Culture37▲ 139×2 topics
  9. Rituals36▲ 68×3 topics
  10. Gender36▲ 10×29 topics
  11. Qualitative Research36▲ 6.4×10 topics
  12. Medieval35▲ 151×2 topics
  13. Trade34▲ 67×4 topics
  14. Human Rights34▲ 5.0×18 topics
  15. Literature32▲ 8.8×26 topics
  16. Scandinavia32▲ 347×1 topic
  17. Viking Age32▲ 347×1 topic
  18. Diplomacy30▲ 49×5 topics
  19. Cultural Analysis26▲ 87×2 topics
  20. Cross-Confessional26▲ 353×1 topic
  21. Early Modern26▲ 353×1 topic
  22. Social Sciences26▲ 27×6 topics
  23. Colonialism25▲ 8.2×22 topics
  24. Embodiment25▲ 21×4 topics
  25. Pedagogy25▲ 7.7×7 topics
  26. Constitutionalism23▲ 40×4 topics
  27. Dementia Care23▲ 289×2 topics
  28. Cultural Heritage22▲ 6.5×17 topics
  29. History22▲ 4.9×27 topics
  30. Ethics22▲ 6.6×14 topics
  31. Social Science20▲ 83×4 topics
  32. Pragmatism19▲ 120×2 topics
  33. Ethical Guidelines19▲ 55×2 topics
  34. Nationalism19▲ 6.4×22 topics
  35. Interactional Expertise19▲ 264×1 topic
  36. Tacit Knowledge19▲ 61×1 topic
  37. Migration18▲ 8.2×16 topics
  38. Discourse Analysis18▲ 11×5 topics
  39. European Union18▲ 12×11 topics
  40. Gender Studies18▲ 18×4 topics

Which research topics does Sax Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Historical and Archaeological Studies, Historical Influence and Diplomacy, Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research and Social and Educational Sciences.

Historical and Archaeolo…32Historical and Archaeological Studies: 32 fractional worksHistorical Influence and Diplomacy: 26 fractional worksEducation, Healthcare and Sociology Research: 19 fractional worksSocial and Educational Sciences: 16 fractional worksEuropean and International Law Studies: 13 fractional worksClassical Antiquity Stud…12Classical Antiquity Studies: 12 fractional worksHistorical, Literary, and Cultural Studies: 9 fractional worksMigration, Policy, and Dickens Studies: 9 fractional worksEuropean Cultural and National Identity: 8 fractional worksHistorical Legal Studies and Society: 8 fractional works
HistoryPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial PsychologyEducation4 others

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

  1. 1 Historical and Archaeological Studies History 32 works
  2. 2 Historical Influence and Diplomacy Political Science and International Relations 26 works
  3. 3 Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research Social Psychology 19 works
  4. 4 Social and Educational Sciences Education 16 works
  5. 5 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 13 works
  6. 6 Classical Antiquity Studies Anthropology 12 works
  7. 7 Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies Classics 9 works
  8. 8 Migration, Policy, and Dickens Studies Demography 9 works
  9. 9 European Cultural and National Identity Sociology and Political Science 8 works
  10. 10 Historical Legal Studies and Society Political Science and International Relations 8 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 available22.1%not open77.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.0%domestic only90.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Sax Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% lower 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 Sax Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0019% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Sax Institute0.0013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sax Institute 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Sax Institute4.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 5.7% in 2024.

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