In their special Research report, published on 24 September, The Australian names the nation’s top research performers based on citations in top journals in each field.
Lifetime Achievers
Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen (pictured) is named among Australia’s top five researchers in Life Sciences and Earth Sciences for his groundbreaking work in microbiology and microbial genomics. Distinguished Professor Paulsen is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology.
Field leaders
Faculty of Arts
- Professor Liz Pellicano – Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Dr Robert Ross – Religion
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
- Associate Professor Farah Magrabi – Medical Informatics
- Dr David Kaplan – Epistemology and Scientific History
- Professor Anand Deva – Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Clinical Professor Richard Harvey – Otolaryngology
Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Professor Subhas Mukhopadhyay – Engineering and Computer Science (General)
Macquarie Business School
- Associate Professor John Dumay – Accounting and Taxation
Top overall research institution
- Accounting and Taxation
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Computational linguistics
- Developmental Disabilities
- Early Childhood Education
- Electromagnetism
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Epistemology and Scientific History
- Film
- Finance
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Rising stars
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
- Dr Miriam Forbes – Sex and Sexuality
- Dr Jasmine Fardouly – Communication
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