Australia's Top 2% Scientists 2023

Australia has 7,600 scientists on the 2023 single-year Top 2% list, up 3.4% from 7,349 in 2022. That places Australia 6th in the world by number of listed scientists. The University of Queensland has the most listed scientists (515), followed by UNSW Sydney (387).

Single Year

7,600

+251 (+3.4%) vs 2022

Career Data

7,002

+379 (+5.7%) vs 2022

World rank by count

No change vs 2022

Institutes

551

+26 (+5.0%) vs 2022

Scientists in Australia on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 25% since 2020.

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

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Single-year list2023

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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	64	BR Baumeister, Roy F.	The University of Queensland	Social Psychology	Rank 5
3	94	GM Green, Martin A.	UNSW Sydney	Applied Physics	Rank 5
4	144	WS Wang, Shaobin	The University of Adelaide	Chemical Engineering	Rank 2
5	149	MH Marsh, Herbert W.	Australian Catholic University	Education	Rank 2
6	181	AM Awual, Md Rabiul	WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering	Rank 3
7	232	SJ Sweller, John	UNSW Sydney	Education	Rank 3
8	235	SG Smyth, Gordon K.	Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research	Developmental Biology	Rank 11
9	266	Pradhan, Biswajeet	University of Technology Sydney	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 1
10	330	ML Morawska, Lidia	Queensland University of Technology	Environmental Sciences	Rank 4
11	427	KJ Kanis, John A.	Australian Catholic University	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 9
12	507	Jorm, Anthony F.	Melbourne School of Population and Global Health	Psychiatry	Rank 11
13	520	HA Huete, Alfredo	University of Technology Sydney	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 2
14	527	GA Gandomi, Amir	University of Technology Sydney	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 36
15	561	Santamouris, Mattheos	UNSW Sydney	Energy	Rank 15
16	578	HG Hankey, Graeme J.	UWA Medical School	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 41
17	587	NP Narayan, Paresh Kumar	Monash Business School	Economics	Rank 12
18	595	MR Munns, Rana	The University of Western Australia	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 6
19	690	LD Lupton, Deborah	UNSW Sydney	Public Health	Rank 7
20	775	PM Page, Matthew J.	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 22
21	833	VP Visscher, Peter M.	The University of Queensland	Developmental Biology	Rank 31
22	865	AR Aitken, R. John	School of Environmental and Life Sciences	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 2
23	867	SM Santosh, M.	The University of Adelaide	Geology	Rank 1
24	888	NS Nakagawa, Shinichi	UNSW Sydney	Ecology	Rank 20
25	892	BG Burnstock, Geoffrey	University of Melbourne	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 64
26	980	HE Holmes, Edward C.	The University of Sydney	Virology	Rank 3
27	991	LW Laurance, William F.	James Cook University	Ecology	Rank 25
28	993	BR Bellomo, Rinaldo	Austin Hospital	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 6
29	1,053	HD Hutmacher, Dietmar W.	Queensland University of Technology	Biomedical Engineering	Rank 3
30	1,058	WM Woodward, Mark	UNSW Sydney	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 31
31	1,061	CR Connell, R. W.	The University of Sydney	Sociology	Rank 2
32	1,076	KY Kivshar, Yuri	The Australian National University	Optics	Rank 5
33	1,093	SS Shabala, Sergey	University of Tasmania	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 11
34	1,095	HD Hensher, David A.	The University of Sydney Business School	Logistics & Transportation	Rank 2
35	1,106	BR Buchbinder, Rachelle	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 29
36	1,138	TV Tam, Vivian W.Y.	Western Sydney University	Building & Construction	Rank 9
37	1,191	BN Bolan, Nanthi	The University of Western Australia	Environmental Sciences	Rank 15
38	1,200	ZP Zimmet, Paul Z.	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 21
39	1,322	RJ Reeve, Johnmarshall	Australian Catholic University	Education	Rank 11
40	1,336	HT Hughes, Terry P.	James Cook University	Ecology	Rank 32
41	1,346	ER Ellis, Rod	Curtin University	Languages & Linguistics	Rank 5
42	1,368	BR Bryant, Richard	UNSW Sydney	Psychiatry	Rank 28
43	1,385	CP Cawood, Peter A.	Monash University	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 10
44	1,422	PS Parker, Sharon K.	Curtin University	Business & Management	Rank 43
45	1,449	LM Lenzen, Manfred	The University of Sydney	Environmental Sciences	Rank 18
46	1,451	LD Lindenmayer, David B.	The Fenner School of Environment & Society	Ecology	Rank 36
47	1,467	WM Westoby, Mark	Macquarie University	Ecology	Rank 37
48	1,476	SP Sachdev, Perminder S.	Prince of Wales Hospital	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 92
49	1,488	AU Acharya, U. Rajendra	University of Southern Queensland	Biomedical Engineering	Rank 5
50	1,513	RV Ratten, Vanessa	La Trobe Business School	Business & Management	Rank 48
51	1,553	HD Hunter, David J.	Kolling Institute of Medical Research	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 7
52	1,557	MJ Mattick, John S.	UNSW Sydney	Developmental Biology	Rank 54
53	1,563	PD Paterson, David L.	UQ Centre for Clinical Research	Microbiology	Rank 27
54	1,598	HJ Hattie, John	University of Melbourne	Education	Rank 15
55	1,656	BA Bauman, Adrian	The University of Sydney School of Public Health	Public Health	Rank 17
56	1,670	ST Seemann, Torsten	The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity	Microbiology	Rank 31
57	1,689	HW Hopkins, Will G.	Victoria University Melbourne, Institute for Health and Sport	Sport Sciences	Rank 3
58	1,690	MJ Monaghan, Joe J.	Monash University	Applied Mathematics	Rank 10
59	1,697	NJ Nie, Jian Feng	Monash University	Materials	Rank 32
60	1,711	DL Degenhardt, Louisa	National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre	Substance Abuse	Rank 5
61	1,729	GT Gabbett, Tim J.	University of Southern Queensland	Sport Sciences	Rank 4
62	1,763	HQ Han, Qing Long	Swinburne University of Technology	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 13
63	1,784	HO Hoegh-Guldberg, O.	The University of Queensland	Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	Rank 5
64	1,787	MT Marwick, Thomas H.	Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 53
65	1,799	SB Singh, Brajesh K.	Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment	Microbiology	Rank 35
66	1,833	MP McGorry, Patrick D.	ORYGEN Youth Health	Psychiatry	Rank 44
67	1,850	HN Haslam, Nick	Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences	Social Psychology	Rank 66
68	1,858	DS Dolnicar, Sara	The University of Queensland Business School	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	Rank 7
69	1,861	WH Whiteford, Harvey	The University of Queensland	Psychiatry	Rank 45
70	1,868	WS Wilde, Simon A.	Curtin University	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 16
71	1,872	HR Hyndman, Rob J.	Monash University	Statistics & Probability	Rank 26
72	1,888	PF Paas, Fred	University of Wollongong	Education	Rank 18
73	1,904	FR Frankham, Richard	Macquarie University	Ecology	Rank 52
74	1,916	VR Varshney, Rajeev K.	Murdoch University	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 17
75	1,921	HW Hall, Wayne	The University of Queensland	Substance Abuse	Rank 8
76	1,924	TN Talley, Nick	The University of Newcastle, Australia	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 27
77	1,953	WJ Westerlund, Joakim	Deakin University	Economics	Rank 43
78	1,965	JS Jiang, San Ping	WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering	Energy	Rank 52
79	1,980	TM Tiggemann, Marika	Flinders University	Social Psychology	Rank 70
80	1,987	HA Hoffmann, Ary A.	School of Biosciences	Entomology	Rank 4
81	2,007	BA Bush, Ashley I.	University of Melbourne	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 118
82	2,112	Buyya, Rajkumar	School of Computing and Information Systems	Distributed Computing	Rank 1
83	2,134	AM Ashokkumar, Muthupandian	School of Chemistry	Organic Chemistry	Rank 29
84	2,152	MI Metcalfe, I.	University of New England Australia	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 23
85	2,177	BM Berk, M.	Deakin University	Psychiatry	Rank 53
86	2,195	MG Moseley, G. L.	University of South Australia	Anesthesiology	Rank 3
87	2,204	SM Smyth, Mark J.	QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute	Immunology	Rank 54
88	2,208	SR Shine, Richard	Macquarie University	Ecology	Rank 64
89	2,244	LH Lambers, Hans	The University of Western Australia	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 21
90	2,248	SF Shaikh, Faiz Uddin Ahamed	Curtin University	Building & Construction	Rank 15
91	2,255	MA Martin, Andrew J.	UNSW Sydney	Education	Rank 24
92	2,260	NJ Nicholson, Jeremy K.	Murdoch University	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 8
93	2,293	GM Goddard, Michael E.	AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience	Dairy & Animal Science	Rank 2
94	2,413	HT Hoffmann, Tammy C.	Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 55
95	2,423	FM Fenech, Michael	University of South Australia	Toxicology	Rank 9
96	2,440	GP Glasziou, Paul P.	Bond University	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 56
97	2,454	HP Hodges, Paul	The University of Queensland	Orthopedics	Rank 4
98	2,499	QS Qiao, Shi Zhang	The University of Adelaide	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 88
99	2,505	SN Selwyn, Neil	Monash University	Education	Rank 26
100	2,509	BS Biddle, Stuart J.H.	University of Southern Queensland	Public Health	Rank 29
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Australia are in the 2023 Stanford Top 2% list?

7,600 scientists affiliated with Australia are on the 2023 single-year list, and 7,002 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2023 single-year list, The University of Queensland has the most listed scientists from Australia, with 515. It is followed by UNSW Sydney with 387.

How has the number of Top 2% scientists in Australia changed since 2020?

On the single-year list, Australia went from 6,100 scientists in 2020 to 7,600 in 2023, a change of +24.6%.

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.