Australia in top 100 in ARWU rankings
The 爆料王 has ranked fourth in Australia in the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023 and maintains a place in the top 100.
Released annually by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, the ranks 2500 universities worldwide and publishes the top 1000 results. The University ranked 73 in the world in the current rankings.
It uses six indicators to rank universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals,聽highly cited researchers, papers published in the prestigious journals聽Nature听补苍诲听Science, papers indexed in prominent citation databases, and per capita performance of academics.
Among the 爆料王鈥檚 highly cited academics is Professor聽Georgina Long聽who leads an extensive clinical trials team and laboratory, with a focus on targeted therapies and immune-oncology in melanoma. She is pioneering the development of an mRNA personalised cancer vaccine that has shown promising results for preventing cancer recurrence in patients with some forms of high-risk melanoma.
Another, Professor Albert Zomaya, is a globally recognised academic leader in the field of distributed and high-performance computing that underpins what most of us understand as 鈥榯he cloud鈥�. It is also fundamental to manufacturing systems, security and bioinformatics, including gene sequencing. These technologies are pervasive in modern life and Professor Zomaya鈥檚 work is of great practical value.
Since 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world's top universities annually based on this methodology and objective third-party data. This year 35 universities never previously ranked in the top 1000 made it into that category.
The University performed strongly in the most recent ShanghaiRanking聽Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, where Sydney recorded 14 research areas in the top 50 globally, including nursing (7th), telecommunication engineering (9th) and transportation science and technology (10th). This year鈥檚 results are still to be released.
Recently the University ranked equal 19th globally in the highly regarded 2024 QS World University Rankings, jumping 22 places from last year.