3rd September 2008

"The Essential Science Indicators survey, based on data from 11,000 journals around the world, ranks the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences among the top 6 per cent of the world's universities in its field. The ANU's Fenner School of Environment also scored well, ranking among the top 20 per cent of the world's environmental and ecology research institutions. After collating the details of citations across 22 areas of research, eight Australian universities were placed in the top 10 per cent of research institutions worldwide the ANU, Melbourne, Monash, Sydney, NSW, Queensland, Western Australia and Adelaide universities."

Quoted from The Canberra Times, Rosslyn Beeby, Science and Environment Reporter, 3 September 2008.