ECU is one of Australia's 'fast movers' for research growth.
Edith Cowan University (ECU) has been recognised in The Australian's 2025 Research Magazine which, each year, provides a comprehensive picture of Australia's best research.
One of Australia's 'fast movers', ECU made the list after seeing growth in both the quality and quantity of research output, growing more than 5% in the past year.
ECU Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Caroline Finch AO was featured saying ECU has been increasingly targeting research areas with high potential and that allow growth.
"When you support areas like that, you attract more people, both from internal to the university to work in the area, but also external appointees.
"It creates a culture and a wonderful place to work, where everyone is sharing the knowledge and the approaches, but also sharing and celebrating the successes of others," Professor Finch said
"We've invested in things like media training for our staff, social media training, too. Some of these things have now become basic skills that our researchers have."
Leaders in their fields
Making The Australian's list of top performers in 250 fields and eight disciplines included ECU School of Engineering Professor Stefan Iglauer.
Recognised for his extensive work with hydrogen in the Oil, Petroleum and Natural Gas field.
In the Library and Information Science field was ECU's Dr Allen Au, whose research covers strategy and marketing of digital businesses and online user behaviour.
About the 2025 Research Magazine
Since 2018 The Australian's Research Magazine has presented a comprehensive picture of Australia's best research.
The top 250 lists are created using an impact score that considers the quality and quantity of research.
Every Australian researcher and university is assigned an impact score in all 250 fields of research. This score is equal to the number of citations for papers published (by the individual or the institution) in the top 20 journals of each field in the past five years.
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