UQ scores a double in popular top-100

A list of the world's top-100 'most-discussed' journal articles of 2016 features research from The University of Queensland in 16^th and 59^th spots. The Altmetric Top 100 2016 lists academic papers that have received the most international attention through mainstream media, social networks and blogs, Wikipedia, public policy documents, and comments on post-publication peer review forums. This year UQ research on sedentary behaviour features at number 16 and research on declining wilderness features at number 59. UQ Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj said the double appearance in the top-100 demonstrated broad international mainstream interest in research from UQ. "While traditional measures of research output such as citations and publication in high impact factor journals remain key indicators of quality, researchers must increasingly engage with the wider community that will benefit from the research they are doing. "This double hit on the Altmetric Top 100 demonstrates that research from UQ is capturing the attention and imagination of the wider public who aren't necessarily scientists or academics." "Not only are we conducting world-class research, the world is talking about it, building momentum and funding opportunities to bring game-changing innovations to market." In the past year, Altmetric has tracked more than 17 million mentions of 2.7 million different research outputs. Sitting in 16^th place is a UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Studies study published in The Lancet , which found the increased risk of death associated with sitting for eight hours a day could be offset by one hour of physical activity a day.