Australia's Top 2% Scientists 2024

Australia has 8,032 scientists on the 2024 single-year Top 2% list, up 5.7% from 7,600 in 2023. That places Australia 6th in the world by number of listed scientists. University of Melbourne has the most listed scientists (613), followed by The University of Queensland (570).

Single Year

8,032

+432 (+5.7%) vs 2023

Career Data

7,447

+445 (+6.4%) vs 2023

World rank by count

No change vs 2023

Institutes

404

-147 (-26.7%) vs 2023

Scientists in Australia on the list, by year

The single-year count has grown 32% 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

By number of listed scientists

Single-year list2024

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1University of Melbourne613
2The University of Queensland570
3The University of Sydney556
4Monash University467
5UNSW Sydney449
6The Australian National University348
7The University of Adelaide278
8The University of Western Australia249
9Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation235
10Deakin University211

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Rank in Australia	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	3	MS Mirjalili, Seyedali	Torrens University Australia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1
2	41	AM Awual, Md Rabiul	WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering	Rank 1
3	108	GM Green, Martin A.	UNSW Sydney	Applied Physics	Rank 5
4	136	MH Marsh, Herbert W.	Australian Catholic University	Education	Rank 2
5	141	WS Wang, Shaobin	The University of Adelaide	Chemical Engineering	Rank 3
6	220	SJ Sweller, John	UNSW Sydney	Education	Rank 3
7	272	Pradhan, Biswajeet	University of Technology Sydney	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 1
8	315	SG Smyth, Gordon K.	University of Melbourne	Developmental Biology	Rank 13
9	348	DL Dai, Liming	UNSW Sydney	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 9
10	362	GA Gandomi, Amir	University of Technology Sydney	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 24
11	446	KJ Kanis, John A.	Australian Catholic University	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 8
12	448	LD Lupton, Deborah	UNSW Sydney	Public Health	Rank 5
13	451	Santamouris, Mattheos	UNSW Sydney	Energy	Rank 15
14	485	HA Huete, Alfredo	University of Technology Sydney	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Rank 2
15	547	ML Morawska, Lidia	Queensland University of Technology	Environmental Sciences	Rank 7
16	550	Lim, Weng Marc	Swinburne University of Technology	Marketing	Rank 6
17	558	Jorm, Anthony F.	University of Melbourne	Psychiatry	Rank 15
18	586	PM Page, Matthew J.	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 15
19	625	CR Connell, Raewyn	The University of Sydney	Sociology	Rank 1
20	654	HG Hankey, Graeme J.	The University of Western Australia	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 42
21	683	Sarker, Iqbal H.	Edith Cowan University	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 49
22	699	SJ Sallis, James F.	Australian Catholic University	Public Health	Rank 6
23	702	BN Bolan, Nanthi	The University of Western Australia	Environmental Sciences	Rank 11
24	703	NP Narayan, Paresh Kumar	Monash University	Economics	Rank 16
25	744	MR Munns, Rana	The University of Western Australia	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 6
26	846	RJ Reeve, Johnmarshall	Australian Catholic University	Education	Rank 9
27	877	NS Nakagawa, Shinichi	UNSW Sydney	Ecology	Rank 21
28	890	VP Visscher, Peter M.	The University of Queensland	Developmental Biology	Rank 27
29	1,003	TV Tam, Vivian WY	Western Sydney University	Building & Construction	Rank 10
30	1,011	HJ Hattie, John	University of Melbourne	Education	Rank 14
31	1,032	HD Hensher, David A.	The University of Sydney Business School	Logistics & Transportation	Rank 2
32	1,038	PS Parker, Sharon K.	Curtin University	Business & Management	Rank 36
33	1,047	WM Westoby, Mark	Macquarie University	Ecology	Rank 25
34	1,062	SR Suddaby, Roy	University of Liverpool	Business & Management	Rank 38
35	1,202	HE Holmes, Edward C.	The University of Sydney	Virology	Rank 2
36	1,206	BR Bellomo, Rinaldo	Monash University	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	Rank 5
37	1,221	KY Kivshar, Yuri	The Australian National University	Optics	Rank 6
38	1,229	HD Hutmacher, Dietmar W.	Queensland University of Technology	Biomedical Engineering	Rank 3
39	1,250	AU Acharya, U. R.	University of Southern Queensland	Biomedical Engineering	Rank 4
40	1,268	LW Laurance, W. F.	James Cook University	Ecology	Rank 34
41	1,290	NJ Nie, J. F.	Monash University	Materials	Rank 28
42	1,298	AR Aitken, Robert John	The University of Newcastle, Australia	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 2
43	1,317	SN Selwyn, Neil	Monash University	Education	Rank 17
44	1,335	LD Lindenmayer, David	The Australian National University	Ecology	Rank 37
45	1,352	WJ Westerlund, Joakim	Deakin University	Econometrics	Rank 9
46	1,364	CP Cawood, Peter A.	Monash University	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 8
47	1,375	LH Lambers, Hans	The University of Western Australia	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 14
48	1,384	ER Ellis, Rod	Curtin University	Languages & Linguistics	Rank 6
49	1,405	HN Haslam, Nick	Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences	Social Psychology	Rank 56
50	1,413	RV Ratten, Vanessa	La Trobe University	Business & Management	Rank 51
51	1,427	ZP Zimmet, Paul	Monash University	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 20
52	1,465	ST Seemann, Torsten	University of Melbourne	Microbiology	Rank 23
53	1,485	LM Lenzen, Manfred	The University of Sydney	Environmental Sciences	Rank 31
54	1,496	SB Singh, Brajesh K.	Western Sydney University	Microbiology	Rank 24
55	1,522	BR Buchbinder, Rachelle	Monash University	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 36
56	1,528	SP Sachdev, Perminder S.	UNSW Sydney	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 91
57	1,536	BR Bryant, Richard	UNSW Sydney	Psychiatry	Rank 35
58	1,537	TM Tiggemann, Marika	Flinders University	Social Psychology	Rank 58
59	1,573	JM Jenkinson, Mark	The University of Adelaide	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 94
60	1,588	SM Santosh, M.	The University of Adelaide	Geology	Rank 1
61	1,593	NS Nahavandi, Saeid	Swinburne University of Technology	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 93
62	1,615	HT Hughes, Terry P.	James Cook University	Ecology	Rank 42
63	1,642	HQ Han, Qing Long	Swinburne University of Technology	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Rank 12
64	1,653	FR Frankham, Richard	Macquarie University	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 11
65	1,666	HT Hoffmann, Tammy C.	Bond University	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 39
66	1,702	MJ Monaghan, Joe J.	Monash University	Applied Mathematics	Rank 7
67	1,704	DL Degenhardt, Louisa	UNSW Sydney	Substance Abuse	Rank 4
68	1,765	SF Shaikh, Faiz Uddin Ahmed	Curtin University	Building & Construction	Rank 14
69	1,771	DS Dolnicar, Sara	The University of Queensland	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	Rank 7
70	1,782	HR Hyndman, Rob J.	Monash University	Statistics & Probability	Rank 24
71	1,795	BD Boud, David	Deakin University	Education	Rank 25
72	1,798	HD Hunter, David J.	The University of Sydney	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 9
73	1,808	LA Lopez, Alan D.	LM Consulting	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 42
74	1,819	HW Hall, Wayne	The University of Queensland	Substance Abuse	Rank 5
75	1,823	MJ Mattick, John S.	UNSW Sydney	Developmental Biology	Rank 54
76	1,824	VI van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.	Monash University	Developmental & Child Psychology	Rank 19
77	1,878	MA Martin, Andrew J.	UNSW Sydney	Education	Rank 26
78	1,907	Buyya, Rajkumar	University of Melbourne	Distributed Computing	Rank 1
79	1,922	BA Bush, Ashley I.	University of Melbourne	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 109
80	1,934	BM Berk, Michael	Deakin University	Psychiatry	Rank 42
81	1,954	MT Marwick, Thomas H.	Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 50
82	1,983	ZS Zhang, Shujun	University of Wollongong	Applied Physics	Rank 57
83	2,020	DP Davidsson, Per	Queensland University of Technology	Business & Management	Rank 68
84	2,035	LT Luu, Trong Tuan	Swinburne University of Technology	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	Rank 8
85	2,054	VR Varshney, Rajeev K.	Murdoch University	Plant Biology & Botany	Rank 20
86	2,070	WG Wang, Guoxiu	University of Technology Sydney	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 69
87	2,094	MP McGorry, Patrick D.	ORYGEN Youth Health	Psychiatry	Rank 48
88	2,105	HO Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove	The University of Queensland	Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	Rank 5
89	2,106	MN Moustafa, Nour	University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 18
90	2,128	PD Paterson, David L.	The University of Queensland	Microbiology	Rank 37
91	2,148	SM Sigala, Marianna	The University of Newcastle, Australia	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	Rank 10
92	2,150	IS Iglauer, Stefan	Edith Cowan University	Energy	Rank 56
93	2,174	BA Bauman, Adrian	The University of Sydney	Public Health	Rank 23
94	2,236	RH Ramkissoon, Haywantee	University of South Australia	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	Rank 11
95	2,257	MD Macfarlane, Douglas R.	Monash University	Energy	Rank 60
96	2,329	QS Qiao, Shi Zhang	The University of Adelaide	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 77
97	2,362	HH Hao, Hong	Curtin University	Civil Engineering	Rank 8
98	2,382	TN Talley, Nicholas J.	The University of Newcastle, Australia	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 32
99	2,396	RQ Ross, Quinlan J.	RuleQuest Research Pty Ltd	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 129
100	2,398	HA Hoffmann, Ary A.	University of Melbourne	Entomology	Rank 5
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Australia are in the 2024 Stanford Top 2% list?

8,032 scientists affiliated with Australia are on the 2024 single-year list, and 7,447 are on the career-long list.

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

On the 2024 single-year list, University of Melbourne has the most listed scientists from Australia, with 613. It is followed by The University of Queensland with 570.

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 8,032 in 2024, a change of +31.7%.

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.