Research Studies About Melbourne - Key Findings

What research studies Melbourne?

Papers about Melbourne as a subject — its agriculture, health, environment and society — regardless of where the authors sit.

Summary

Research about Melbourne is more historical and social than operational. The city attracts 4171 papers, led by Australian History and Society at 75; urban transport and accessibility has just 17, despite mobility dominating public attention.

WATCH Watch whether housing, transport and migration become larger parts of the city’s research agenda.

Research outlook for Melbourne

What the papers — written in the city and about it — point to, split by the Prism stance layer: work that reads promising versus work that flags problems or urges caution.

Opportunities the research points to

Children's Health · 269Mental Health · 264Women's Health · 216Machine Learning · 212Healthcare · 205Parkes · 198Climate Change · 142Artificial Intelligence · 131Sustainability · 129Education · 123COVID-19 · 122Research · 114

Concerns the research raises

Healthcare · 439Women's Health · 352Mental Health · 350Children's Health · 315COVID-19 · 278Research · 270Climate Change · 217Education · 176Public Health · 143Artificial Intelligence · 122Sustainability · 75Patients' Health · 65

counts = papers carrying the theme · concerns merge cautionary, critical and problem-identifying work

Topics

Topic	Works
Australian History and Society	75
New Zealand Economic and Social Studies	22
Australian Indigenous Culture and History	22
Urban Transport and Accessibility	17
Education Systems and Policy	16
Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy	15
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism	15
Urban Planning and Governance	14
Migration, Health and Trauma	12
Rural development and sustainability	12
Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism	9
Urban and Rural Development Challenges	9
Species Distribution and Climate Change	9
Land Use and Ecosystem Services	9
Reproductive tract infections research	8
Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies	8
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk	8
Diaspora, migration, transnational identity	8
Cultural Industries and Urban Development	7
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies	7

By year

Orientation (where Prism-tagged)

Descriptive

288

78Problem Identifying

38Promising

34Cautionary

24Critical

18Breakthrough

13Comparative

Most-cited

Paper	Year	Cited	Doi
Development of the Melbourne FFQ: a food frequency questionnaire for use in an Australian prospective study…	1994	442	—
Impact of Increasing Urban Density on Local Climate: Spatial and Temporal Variations in the Surface Energy…	2007	336	doi
Accessing maternal and child health services in Melbourne, Australia: Reflections from refugee families and…	2012	235	doi
Barriers to bikesharing: an analysis from Melbourne and Brisbane	2014	222	doi
A new portable sound processor for the University of Melbourne/Nucleus Limited multielectrode cochlear implant	1992	217	doi
Characteristics influencing the variability of urban CO2 fluxes in Melbourne, Australia	2006	216	doi
Visual Impairment in Australia: Distance Visual Acuity, Near Vision, and Visual Field Findings of the…	1997	210	doi
Comparison between perindopril and nifedipine in hypertensive and normotensive diabetic patients with…	1991	199	doi
International code of nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (Melbourne Code) adopted by the Eighteenth…	2012	188	—
Associations between varying magnitudes of the urban heat island and the synoptic climatology in Melbourne…	2000	159	doi
Economic analysis of vertical ground source heat pump systems in Melbourne	2017	149	doi
Housing Price Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms: The Case of Melbourne City, Australia	2018	141	doi
Urban development and pedestrian thermal comfort in Melbourne	2017	136	doi
Genital <i>Candida</i> Species Detected in Samples from Women in Melbourne, Australia, before and after…	2006	133	doi
Forest Fire Smoke Exposures and Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in Melbourne, Australia: A Case-Crossover…	2015	129	doi

papers whose title or entities mention Melbourne (any author location) · partial sample · distinct from research done at the city's institutions

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