The University of Queensland (UQ) Australia

Overview

For more than a century, The University of Queensland (UQ) has educated and worked with outstanding people to deliver unparalleled teaching, learning and research excellence that creates positive change globally.

Across UQ’s 3 campuses, our 6,900 staff and 55,000 students – including more than 20,000 postgraduates and approximately 21,000 international students from 142 countries – teach, research and study.

With a strong focus on teaching excellence, UQ has won more national teaching awards than any other Australian university* and attracts the majority of Queensland’s high achievers, as well as top interstate and overseas students.

UQ’s 304,000 graduates are an engaged network of global alumni who span more than 170 countries and include more than 16,700 PhDs.

UQ consistently ranks among the world’s top universities as measured by several key independent rankings, including the CWTS Leiden Ranking (45)**, Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (38), U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings (36), QS World University Rankings (50), Academic Ranking of World Universities (47), and Times Higher Education World University Rankings (53).

With a 2021 operating revenue of AU$2.385 billion, including $441.5 million in research investment, UQ’s 6 faculties and 8 globally recognised research institutes cover a remarkable breadth of teaching and research.

In recognition of our research quality, UQ was acknowledged in the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia initiative for above-world-standard research in 93 specialised fields – more than any other Australian university.

Through UniQuest, UQ’s technology transfer and commercialisation company, UQ is also Australia’s leading university for commercialisation revenue, number of active startup companies and value of equity held in startup companies formed from university intellectual property.

UQ is one of only 3 Australian members of the global Universitas 21, and one of only 3 Australian charter members of the prestigious edX consortium, the world’s leading not-for-profit consortium of massive open online courses (MOOCs).

* Australian Awards for University Teaching
** This ranking is measured by the Impact indicator P, P (top 10 per cent), and PP (top 10 per cent) with fractional counting.

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Research

Date range: 1 June 2022 - 31 May 2023

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for The University of Queensland (UQ) published between 1 June 2022 - 31 May 2023 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the Share for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Article Count and Share for The University of Queensland (UQ)
Count Share
520 134.69

Outputs by subject (Share)

Outputs by subject
Subject Count Share
205 46.85
90 30.66
81 32.84
137 15.72
79 20.38

Share output for the past 5 years

Share per year
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022*
150.36 116.62 161.24 155.86 131.73

Compare The University of Queensland (UQ) with other institutions

*Note: 2022 data contains Share for article affiliations from newly added health-science journals.

Highlight of the month

Whales don’t sing louder over vessel noise

© Dustin Harris/Moment/Getty Images

Humpback whales sing louder to be heard over noise created by the wind, but they don’t do so in response to noise from shipping.

The oceans are becoming increasingly noisy due to noise generated by ships. This artificial source of noise can negatively impact marine species.

Male humpback whales are known to sing louder in response to noise generated by the wind, but it wasn’t known whether they do the same in response to noise produced by motor vessels.

Now, a team led by researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia has found that, even when noise from ships is dominant, humpback whales adjust the level of their singing only in response to wind noise.

This finding will be important for informing the development of policies for limiting artificial noise sources at sea, the researchers say.

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References

  1. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290, (2023). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0204

View the article on the Nature Index

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Collaboration

Date range: 1 June 2022 - 31 May 2023

International vs. domestic collaboration by Share

  • 34.42% Domestic (230 institutions)
  • 65.58% International (2709 institutions)

Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.

Top 10 domestic collaborators with The University of Queensland (UQ) by Share*

  1. The University of Queensland (UQ) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (20.84)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)12.24
    Queensland University of Technology (QUT)8.60
  2. The University of Queensland (UQ) and University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) (19.72)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)8.96
    University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)10.76
  3. The University of Queensland (UQ) and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (19.62)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)9.28
    QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute10.33
  4. The University of Queensland (UQ) and The University of Melbourne (UniMelb) (18.56)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)10.05
    The University of Melbourne (UniMelb)8.51
  5. The University of Queensland (UQ) and Monash University (18.39)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)7.63
    Monash University10.75
  6. The University of Queensland (UQ) and The University of Sydney (USYD) (12.67)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)6.83
    The University of Sydney (USYD)5.84
  7. The University of Queensland (UQ) and The University of Western Australia (UWA) (9.91)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)5.98
    The University of Western Australia (UWA)3.92
  8. The University of Queensland (UQ) and Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre (AID) (8.59)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)5.28
    Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre (AID)3.31
  9. The University of Queensland (UQ) and Griffith University (8.40)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)3.44
    Griffith University4.95
  10. The University of Queensland (UQ) and The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni) (7.33)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)4.04
    The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni)3.30

Top 10 international collaborators with The University of Queensland (UQ) by Share*

  1. The University of Queensland (UQ) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (11.90)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)6.58
    Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)5.33
  2. The University of Queensland (UQ) and Aarhus University (AU) (6.15)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)
    Aarhus University (AU)4.72
  3. The University of Queensland (UQ) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) (6.12)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)4.39
  4. The University of Queensland (UQ) and East China Normal University (ECNU) (5.27)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)2.50
    East China Normal University (ECNU)2.77
  5. The University of Queensland (UQ) and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (4.70)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)3.46
    French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
  6. The University of Queensland (UQ) and Harvard University (4.51)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)
    Harvard University2.68
  7. The University of Queensland (UQ) and University of Bristol (UoB) (4.23)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)
    University of Bristol (UoB)3.19
  8. The University of Queensland (UQ) and Peking University (PKU) (4.18)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)3.17
    Peking University (PKU)
  9. The University of Queensland (UQ) and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (4.16)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)2.66
    Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
  10. The University of Queensland (UQ) and University of Cambridge (4.15)
    The University of Queensland (UQ)2.28
    University of Cambridge

*Share is the fractional count allocated to an institution for an article that takes into account the percentage of authors from that institution and the number of affiliated institutions that contributed to the article. The horizontal stacked bar charts above indicate the Share contributed by each institution in the bilateral collaboration. If the Share is not shown, hover over the bar to display it.

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