Readers of The Scientist magazine have ranked The University of Queensland, Australia as one of the top three international academic institutions outside the USA in the magazine's annual Best Places to Work in Academia 2010 survey.
This is the second year in a row that UQ has featured in the top 10 international Best Places to Work in Academia survey, after being a newcomer to the survey last year.
It is the only Australian university to feature in the survey.
Readers ranked The J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, California as the top institution in the U.S.
The online article discussing the survey is in the July issue of the publication.
UQ has 1011 full-time life science researchers who received A in 2010.
UQ researchers published 15,457 papers in the Life Sciences, according to ISI Web of Knowledge Essential Science Indicators, during the period January 1, 2001 to February 28, 2011.
The papers received an average 15.22 citations per paper. The ranking results referred specifically to life science disciplines including Agricultural Sciences, Biology/Biochemistry, Clinical Medicine, Environment/Ecology, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology/Genetics, Neuroscience/Behavior, Pharmacology/Toxicology, and Plant & Animal Science.
The Scientist magazine survey included factors such as job satisfaction, peers, infrastructure and environment, research resources, pay, management and policies, teaching and mentoring, tenure and promotion.
The Top 10 International Institutions:
1 Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2 INRA, Versailles, France
3 University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
4 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
5 University of groningen, Netherlands
6 University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
7 hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario
8 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
9 University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
10 University of Liverpool, England, UK
The Top 10 U.S. Institutions:
1 The J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA
2 St. Jude Children’s Research hospital, Memphis, TN
3 Fred hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
4 Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA
5 Children’s hospital Boston, MA
6 Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL, and Glendale, AZ
7 The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK
8 Donald Danforth plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO
9 Princeton University, NJ
10 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
The full article with detailed survey results can be found in the July issue of The Scientist and is available online at www.the-scientist.com/bptw.
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