Australia's Top 2% Scientists 2020

Australia has 6,100 scientists on the 2020 single-year Top 2% list. That places Australia 6th in the world by number of listed scientists. University of Queensland has the most listed scientists (467), followed by The University of Sydney (441).

Single Year

6,100

First year listed

Career Data

5,441

First year listed

World rank by count

First year listed

Institutes

371

First year listed

Scientists in Australia on the list, by year

Single-year list, change on the previous year

2021+17.0%

2022+3.0%

2023+3.4%

2024+5.7%

2025+6.5%

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Year	Single Year	Change	Career Data	Change
2020	6,100		5,441
2021	7,138	+17.0%	6,369	+17.1%
2022	7,349	+3.0%	6,623	+4.0%
2023	7,600	+3.4%	7,002	+5.7%
2024	8,032	+5.7%	7,447	+6.4%
2025	8,555	+6.5%	8,025	+7.8%

Top 10 institutes in Australia

By number of listed scientists

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1University of Queensland467
2The University of Sydney441
3University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia426
4Monash University397
5University of Melbourne380
6Australian National University285
7The University of Adelaide235
8University of Western Australia217
9University of Technology Sydney164
10Deakin University144

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Rank in Australia	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	22	Ryan, Richard M.	Australian Catholic University	Social Psychology	Rank 3
2	57	MS Mirjalili, Seyedali	Griffith University	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 10
3	62	GM Green, Martin A.	University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia	Applied Physics	Rank 5
4	105	MH Marsh, Herbert W.	Australian Catholic University	Education	Rank 1
5	142	WS Wang, Shaobin	The University of Adelaide	Chemical Engineering	Rank 1
6	147	RP Reich, P. B.	Western Sydney University	Ecology	Rank 2
7	186	SG Smyth, Gordon K.	University of Melbourne	Developmental Biology	Rank 8
8	333	JA Jorm, Anthony	Melbourne School of Population and Global Health	Psychiatry	Rank 8
9	356	SJ Sweller, John	University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia	Education	Rank 3
10	412	KJ Kanis, John A.	Australian Catholic University	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 7
11	417	Pradhan, Biswajeet	University of Technology Sydney	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 1
12	454	BG Burnstock, Geoffrey	University of Melbourne	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 39
13	473	CR Costanza, R.	Australian National University	Ecology	Rank 13
14	541	LW Laurance, William	James Cook University, Australia	Ecology	Rank 15
15	544	NP Narayan, Paresh Kumar	Deakin University	Economics	Rank 14
16	550	Buyya, Rajkumar	School of Computing and Information Systems	Distributed Computing	Rank 1
17	588	HD Hutmacher, Dietmar W.	Queensland University of Technology QUT	Biomedical Engineering	Rank 3
18	631	KY Kivshar, Yuri S.	Australian National University	Optics	Rank 4
19	636	MJ Mattick, John S.	Garvan Institute of Medical Research	Developmental Biology	Rank 27
20	679	Santamouris, Mattheos	University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia	Building & Construction	Rank 2
21	729	MR Munns, Rana	University of Western Australia	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 4
22	731	MJ Monaghan, J. J.	Monash University	Fluids & Plasmas	Rank 11
23	763	BR Bellomo, Rinaldo	University of Melbourne	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 3
24	765	VP Visscher, Peter M.	University of Queensland	Developmental Biology	Rank 34
25	774	HG Hankey, Graeme J.	University of Western Australia	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 57
26	865	WM Westoby, Mark	Macquarie University	Ecology	Rank 26
27	872	HA Huete, Alfredo R.	University of Technology Sydney	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 3
28	886	NS Nakagawa, Shinichi	University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 12
29	908	MP McGorry, Patrick D.	Centre for Youth Mental Health	Psychiatry	Rank 23
30	945	HT Hughes, Terry P.	James Cook University, Australia	Ecology	Rank 27
31	957	MM Maes, Michael	Deakin University	Psychiatry	Rank 24
32	979	HD Hensher, David A.	The University of Sydney	Logistics & Transportation	Rank 3
33	1,041	WS Wilde, Simon	Curtin University	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 12
34	1,064	ZP Zimmet, Paul	Monash University	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 19
35	1,073	SP Shi, Peng	The University of Adelaide	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 9
36	1,094	LM Lenzen, Manfred	The University of Sydney	Environmental Sciences	Rank 8
37	1,110	AR Aitken, R. John	University of Newcastle, Australia	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 2
38	1,124	PD Paterson, David L.	Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital	Microbiology	Rank 15
39	1,127	FR Frankham, Richard	Macquarie University	Ecology	Rank 32
40	1,137	GM Ghayesh, M. H.	The University of Adelaide	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 17
41	1,147	HO Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove	University of Queensland	Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	Rank 4
42	1,161	RJ Raven, John A.	University of Technology Sydney	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 7
43	1,231	FM Fenech, Michael	Genome Health Foundation	Toxicology	Rank 3
44	1,245	CR Connell, Raewyn	The University of Sydney	Sociology	Rank 3
45	1,272	CP Cawood, Peter A.	Monash University	Geology	Rank 2
46	1,370	HA Hoffmann, Ary A.	Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 20
47	1,373	LJ List, John A.	Australian National University	Economics	Rank 32
48	1,382	NJ Nie, Jian Feng	Monash University	Materials	Rank 32
49	1,398	LD Lindenmayer, David B.	Australian National University, Fenner School of Environment and Society	Ecology	Rank 38
50	1,409	LD Lupton, Deborah	University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia	Public Health	Rank 11
51	1,450	BA Bush, Ashley I.	University of Melbourne	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 100
52	1,465	BA Bauman, Adrian	The University of Sydney	Public Health	Rank 13
53	1,483	LA Lopez, Alan D.	Melbourne School of Population and Global Health	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 27
54	1,521	FR Frost, Ray L.	Queensland University of Technology QUT	Chemical Physics	Rank 39
55	1,560	SM Smyth, Mark J.	QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute	Immunology	Rank 35
56	1,573	HW Hall, Wayne D.	University of Queensland	Substance Abuse	Rank 6
57	1,589	BR Buchbinder, Rachelle	Monash University	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 30
58	1,599	SR Shine, Richard	Macquarie University	Ecology	Rank 51
59	1,628	RJ Reeve, Johnmarshall	Australian Catholic University	Education	Rank 10
60	1,635	HJ Hattie, John	University of Melbourne	Education	Rank 11
61	1,669	BM Barnett, M.	Deakin University	Materials	Rank 38
62	1,733	GA Gandomi, Amir	University of Technology Sydney	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 78
63	1,747	DL Degenhardt, Louisa	UNSW, National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre	Substance Abuse	Rank 7
64	1,751	HW Hopkins, William G.	Victoria University Melbourne	Sport Sciences	Rank 2
65	1,772	BM Berk, Michael	University of Melbourne	Psychiatry	Rank 47
66	1,819	HR Hobbs, Richard J.	University of Western Australia	Ecology	Rank 58
67	1,848	LZ Li, Zheng Xiang	Curtin University of Technology, The Institute for Geoscience Research	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 24
68	1,879	CB Chappell, Bruce W.	University of Wollongong	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 25
69	1,930	TM Tiggemann, Marika	Flinders University	Social Psychology	Rank 61
70	1,960	BR Bryant, Richard	University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia	Psychiatry	Rank 55
71	1,982	GM Goddard, Michael E.	Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences	Dairy & Animal Science	Rank 2
72	1,985	MT Marwick, Thomas H.	Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 54
73	2,000	PF Paas, Fred	University of Wollongong	Education	Rank 13
74	2,014	HN Haslam, Nick	Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences	Social Psychology	Rank 64
75	2,016	MG Moseley, G. Lorimer	University of South Australia	Anesthesiology	Rank 3
76	2,037	MC Moritz, Craig	Australian National University	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 24
77	2,060	JS Jiang, San Ping	Curtin University	Energy	Rank 41
78	2,088	SS Shabala, Sergey	University of Tasmania	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 14
79	2,089	CF Caruso, Frank	University of Melbourne	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 78
80	2,202	GT Gabbett, Tim J.	University of Southern Queensland	Sport Sciences	Rank 3
81	2,227	ON Owen, Neville	Swinburne University of Technology	Public Health	Rank 25
82	2,291	PS Parker, Sharon K.	Curtin University	Business & Management	Rank 53
83	2,304	TN Talley, Nicholas J.	University of Newcastle, Faculty of Health and Medicine	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 21
84	2,347	FG Farquhar, Graham	Australian National University	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 16
85	2,371	BN Bolan, Nanthi S.	University of Newcastle, Australia	Environmental Sciences	Rank 19
86	2,395	MD MacFarlane, Douglas R.	Monash University	Energy	Rank 52
87	2,400	YY Yamauchi, Yusuke	University of Queensland	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 83
88	2,405	TS Taylor, Stuart Ross	Australian National University	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 36
89	2,430	TV Tam, Vivian W.Y.	Western Sydney University	Building & Construction	Rank 12
90	2,435	BJ Bezdek, James C.	School of Computing and Information Systems	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 101
91	2,458	HD Hunter, David J.	Kolling Institute of Medical Research	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 13
92	2,478	MP Mulvaney, Paul	University of Melbourne	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 85
93	2,487	HR Hyndman, Rob J.	Monash University	Statistics & Probability	Rank 25
94	2,498	RQ Ross, Quinlan J.	RuleQuest Research Pty Ltd	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 104
95	2,530	TP Teunissen, Peter J.G.	Curtin University	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 34
96	2,546	LH Liu, Hua Kun	University of Wollongong	Energy	Rank 53
97	2,557	GW Griffin, W. L.	Macquarie University	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 40
98	2,559	RM Randolph, Mark F.	University of Western Australia	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 12
99	2,569	SD Stern, David I.	Australian National University	Agricultural Economics & Policy	Rank 3
100	2,583	HE Holmes, Edward C.	The University of Sydney	Virology	Rank 2
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Australia are in the 2020 Stanford Top 2% list?

6,100 scientists affiliated with Australia are on the 2020 single-year list, and 5,441 are on the career-long list.

Which institute in Australia has the most Top 2% scientists?

On the 2020 single-year list, University of Queensland has the most listed scientists from Australia, with 467. It is followed by The University of Sydney with 441.

What is the difference between the single-year and career-long lists?

The single-year list ranks scientists on the citations their work received in one year. The career-long list ranks them on citations across their whole career. Both lists are published every year, and a scientist can be on one, both or neither.

What is the official source of this data?

The rankings come from the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators published by Ioannidis et al. in the Elsevier Data Repository, updated every year. TOPSCINET, an independent platform, organises that data by country, year, institute and field, so you can compare and explore it.