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Sports Medicine Australia

In research, Sports Medicine Australia stands highest in Medicine (#9,143 of 17,978 worldwide), Surgery (#2,274 of 4,227 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#11,454 of 20,462 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#25,096
of 28,054 · #32,700 all time
Rank in Australia
#382
of 391
Research works
638
▼ 16% vs 2013–17
Citations
19k
29.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.5%
record average 16.5%
Open access
36%
world 28%

What is Sports Medicine 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
MedicineField #9,143 of 17,978 19.0%452
SurgerySubfield #2,274 of 4,227 20.4%131
Health SciencesDomain #11,454 of 20,462 18.8%479

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sports Medicine 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

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: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.68× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.74× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.56× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 2.17× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.37× its world share, 53 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.50× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.89× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.75× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Sports Medicine Australia?

Ranked on the composite score, Machar Reid and M. Brown lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sports Medicine Australia.

  1. 1 Machar Reid Australia · #112,746 worldwide 130 citations · 44 works
  2. 2 M. Brown Australia · #1,367,857 worldwide 12 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Sports Medicine Australia

Which keywords describe research at Sports Medicine Australia?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Injury Prevention, Risk Factors, High-Intensity Interval Training, Athletic Training, Resistance Training, Prevention and Muscle Injuries.

▲ 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. Epidemiology18▲ 5.5×27 topics
  2. Injury Prevention9▲ 92×4 topics
  3. Risk Factors8▲ 8.6×7 topics
  4. Athletic Training8▲ 99×3 topics
  5. High-Intensity Interval Training8▲ 87×2 topics
  6. Resistance Training7▲ 93×2 topics
  7. Prevention7▲ 19×2 topics
  8. Muscle Injuries6▲ 122×1 topic
  9. Performance Analysis6▲ 37×1 topic
  10. Sports Injury6▲ 122×1 topic
  11. Training Load6▲ 125×1 topic
  12. Biomechanics5▲ 20×7 topics
  13. Rehabilitation5▲ 15×5 topics
  14. Revision Surgery4▲ 43×2 topics
  15. Total Hip Replacement4▲ 43×2 topics
  16. Sport Psychology4▲ 54×2 topics
  17. Qualitative Research4▲ 5.7×3 topics
  18. Arthroplasty4▲ 49×2 topics
  19. Biomechanical Analysis4▲ 74×2 topics
  20. Complications4▲ 9.5×8 topics
  21. Expert Performance4▲ 185×1 topic
  22. Low Back Pain4▲ 26×4 topics
  23. Motor Imagery4▲ 38×1 topic
  24. Anterior Cruciate Ligament3▲ 97×1 topic
  25. Injury Risk3▲ 97×1 topic
  26. Shoulder Function3▲ 44×2 topics
  27. Patient Satisfaction3▲ 12×3 topics
  28. Recovery3▲ 37×2 topics
  29. Outcomes3▲ 45×1 topic
  30. Rotator Cuff Tears3▲ 57×1 topic
  31. Shoulder Pathology3▲ 57×1 topic
  32. Total Knee Replacement3▲ 55×1 topic
  33. Concussion3▲ 85×1 topic
  34. Encephalopathy3▲ 54×1 topic
  35. Osteoarthritis3▲ 28×3 topics
  36. Regeneration3▲ 18×2 topics
  37. Gait Analysis2▲ 31×2 topics
  38. Kinematics2▲ 59×2 topics
  39. Foot Strike Patterns2▲ 76×1 topic
  40. Running Injuries2▲ 76×1 topic

Which research topics does Sports Medicine Australia publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Sports injuries and prevention, Sports Performance and Training, Sport Psychology and Performance and Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques.

Sports injuries and prevention: 6 fractional worksSports Performance and Training: 6 fractional worksSport Psychology and Performance: 4 fractional worksKnee injuries and reconstruction techniques: 3 fractional worksTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: 3 fractional worksShoulder Injury and Treatment: 3 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury R…3Traumatic Brain Injury Research: 3 fractional worksLower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies: 2 fractional worksSports Dynamics and Biomechanics: 2 fractional worksOsteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms: 2 fractional works
Orthopedics and Sports MedicineDevelopmental and Educational PsychologySurgeryEpidemiology2 others

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

  1. 1 Sports injuries and prevention Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 6 works
  2. 2 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 6 works
  3. 3 Sport Psychology and Performance Developmental and Educational Psychology 4 works
  4. 4 Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques Surgery 3 works
  5. 5 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 3 works
  6. 6 Shoulder Injury and Treatment Surgery 3 works
  7. 7 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 3 works
  8. 8 Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  9. 9 Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics Biomedical Engineering 2 works
  10. 10 Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms Rheumatology 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 available35.7%not open64.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.8%domestic only72.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Sports Medicine Australia's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 16% lower 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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