Research Collaboration Index · 2026

The University of Queensland

Asia-Pacific · Platinum standing

#11World rank
95.2RCI score
1,188Collaborating institutions
81Partner countries
79,145Joint works, 5 yr
3.46FWCI

Strongest in Social Sciences, at #4 in the world.

The profile

Collaboration profile

94Influence
98Brokerage
100Reach
98Diversity
100Sustained
89Impact
89International

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Subject standings

World rank in each of the 26 subject indices; gold cards mark top-500 standings. Click through to any full subject ranking.

Featured academics

The researchers behind the standing

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Alex Haslam

Alex Haslam

Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology, School of Psychology

Haslam studies how group membership and social identity shape leadership, health and organisational life. Working with more than 400 collaborators worldwide, his social identity approach informs leadership development, workplace wellbeing and public health programmes, and earned him an Order of Australia for services to psychology and mentoring.

Xiwang Zhang

Xiwang Zhang

Endowed Dow Chair in Sustainable Engineering Innovation; Director, UQ Dow Centre; Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2)

Zhang leads GETCO2, a 45 million dollar, seven university Australian centre turning carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals through green electrochemistry. His membrane and separation technologies address water treatment, resource recovery and clean energy, linking university research with industry partners including Dow to translate sustainable engineering into practice.

Katharine Gelber

Katharine Gelber

Deputy Executive Dean and Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; Professor of Politics and Public Policy

Gelber is one of Australia's leading scholars of free speech, hate speech regulation and human rights. Her research informs parliamentary inquiries and public debate on speech law reform, and as Deputy Executive Dean she helps steer one of the world's top ranked humanities and social sciences faculties.

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