Australia’s Research Field Leaders in Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology

I have just learned that The Australian newspaper has named us “Australia’s Research Field Leaders” in the field of “Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology”

Australia’s Research Field Leaders Health & Medical Sciences
Field: Audiology, Speech & Language Pathology
Field leader: Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt
Leading institution: Charles Sturt

This is exciting because we are named as BOTH the field leader and the leading institution (in many fields the institution is different from the field leader).
The CSU media release is here: https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/health/allied-health/national-double-acclaim-for-csu-speech,-language-and-hearing-team

“Australia’s top researchers and research institutions are revealed in unprecedented detail in a new edition of The Australian’s Research magazine. The research leaders’ list, based on big data analysis of up-to-date publicly available information, shows Group of Eight universities are dominant in the more than 250 individual fields of research that are examined.” https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/group-of-eight-leads-the-pack-in-research/news-story/025aa9c9fd64a0037e4d1c6948024b73

Health & Medical Sciences “This is an area of strength for universities in Australia, where many institutions – including many outside of the research-intensive ones – do well. Universities such as Charles Sturt (in audiology, speech and language pathology), La Trobe (in child and adolescent psychology), Griffith (in nursing as well as pregnancy and childbirth) are field leaders...” https://specialreports.theaustralian.com.au/1163512/

“For selecting researchers, we chose authors who had the most papers published in the top 20 journals in their field. (The top 20 journals are determined by their trailing five-year impact factor as measured by Google Scholar.) This recognises both their career output and, since it is limited to the top publication venues, the quality of their work as recognised by their peers worldwide. For institutions, we selected those with most impact, that is citations, from papers in the top 20 journals in each field in the past year.” https://specialreports.theaustralian.com.au/1163512/

The CSU Speech-Language-Multilingualism team is listed here and some members are photographed below

Dr Audrey Wang, Dr Michelle Brown, Dr Van Tran, Anna Cronin, Prof Rebecca McCauley, Suzanne Hopf (online), Prof Sharynne McLeod, Helen Blake, Nicole McGill