Comparing the academic impact of research by New Zealand and Australian universities 1981-2005 Publications

Publication Details

This report compares the academic impact of the research by New Zealand and Australian universities, as measured by citations per publication, between 1981 and 2005. This report forms part of a series called 'Research and knowledge creation'.

This report is one of a series that explores a newly available bibliometric database to analyse the research performance of New Zealand universities. This report complements (ex)Citing research: A bibliometric analysis of New Zealand university research 1981-2005 which examined the academic impact of research by New Zealand universities.

Author(s): Warren Smart, Ministry of Education and Marieke Weusten, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Date Published: December 2007

Summary

Key findings

  • The academic impact of the research at New Zealand universities was on average below that of the Australian research intensive Group of Eight (G8) universities but above the non-Group of Eight (non-G8) universities.
  • In a number of individual universities and narrow subject areas, New Zealand universities outperformed the G8 university grouping. This would imply that the New Zealand universities have several specialised pockets of high impact research.

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