Reed Felicia, Lyon Maddy, Raspovic Anita, Marks Peta, Maguire Sarah, Brennan Leah, Foldi Claire J
Department of Physiology, Monash University, 26 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.
Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, 23 Innovation Walk, Clayton, 3800, Australia.
J Eat Disord. 2025 Mar 31;13(1):57. doi: 10.1186/s40337-025-01239-5.
Building the research capacity and capability of Australia's eating disorder (ED) research workforce has been identified as a key strategy to respond to the increasing prevalence of EDs. However, there is currently a limited understanding of the research strengths and scope of this workforce and this is a barrier to capacity building efforts and to evaluating the impacts of these efforts. This study sought to understand and summarise the current research metrics of the top 50 research experts in Australia identified through Expertscape. Publicly available publication, citation and funded research grants metrics, were extracted from Expertscape, Scopus, SciVal, Dimensions.ai and researcher profiles and summarised. The results indicate that Australian Feeding and Eating Disorder (FED) researchers are competitive internationally, and are spread across professional disciplines with the highest representation from psychology. Expertscape researcher rank was associated with higher numbers of publications in feeding and eating disorders overall, but not to total outputs, field-weighted citation impact (FWCI), or number of publications in top percentile journals. Publications were heavily focused on Anorexia Nervosa. Public grants awarded to the identified ED researchers in Australia over the past 10 years were largely National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grant schemes, targeting innovative and creative research across any area of health and medical research. Cumulative dollars awarded over the 10-year period up to 2023 were approximately $23.9 million AUD, roughly 6 times less than that awarded to Schizophrenia research. These results summarise the current state of Australian FED research, comprised of a productive high performing research workforce limited by inadequate research funding.
提升澳大利亚饮食失调（ED）研究人员的研究能力已被确定为应对饮食失调患病率不断上升的关键策略。然而，目前对这一研究人员群体的研究优势和范围了解有限，这对能力建设工作以及评估这些工作的影响构成了障碍。本研究旨在了解并总结通过Expertscape确定的澳大利亚前50名研究专家的当前研究指标。从Expertscape、Scopus、SciVal、Dimensions.ai和研究人员简介中提取公开可用的出版物、引用和资助研究项目指标并进行总结。结果表明，澳大利亚喂养与饮食失调（FED）研究人员在国际上具有竞争力，分布在多个专业领域，其中心理学领域的代表性最高。Expertscape研究人员排名与饮食失调领域总体上较多的出版物数量相关，但与总产出、领域加权引用影响（FWCI）或顶级百分位数期刊上的出版物数量无关。出版物主要集中在神经性厌食症。过去10年澳大利亚确定的饮食失调研究人员获得的公共资助主要是国家卫生与医学研究委员会（NHMRC）的项目资助计划，目标是在健康和医学研究的任何领域开展创新和创造性研究。截至2023年的10年期间累计授予的资金约为2390万澳元，大约比授予精神分裂症研究的资金少6倍。这些结果总结了澳大利亚FED研究的现状，即由一支高产的高绩效研究人员队伍组成，但受到研究资金不足的限制。
