UQ on top again in CWTS Leiden Rankings

For the second successive year The University of Queensland has been recognised as the top university in the southern hemisphere for global research quality in the 2019 CWTS Leiden Rankings - as measured by the number of publications of a university belonging in the top 1 per cent of their field. UQ ranked number one in Australia, number one in Oceania, number one in the southern hemisphere and 32 ^nd in the world as measured by the highly-regarded international research quality indicator. The rankings measured the scientific performance of more than 950 major universities worldwide in the years 2014-17. Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj said that maintaining its number one ranking within Australia displayed a commitment to high-quality research standards and output. "In the ranked period, UQ contributed 179 publications in the top one per cent of the most frequently cited publications," Professor Høj said. "Those 179 were considered the cream of the crop of 11,997 publications in recognised journals contributed by UQ researchers and research teams. "To put that in perspective, that's almost exactly 250 publications a month in recognised journals contributed by UQ over four years.