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# New Zealand

Country 4 institutions in 4 agglomerations · [all countries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/)

[**4** institutions with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/new-zealand/#institutions) · [**4** agglomerations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/new-zealand/#agglomerations) · [**2** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/new-zealand/#authors) · [**11** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/new-zealand/#works) · [**3,148** citations of their works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/new-zealand/#works)

## About

### Profile

[New Zealand](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/orgs/country/nz/) appears in the library as a country grouping that gathers the research institutions located there. An institution joins the grouping once its researchers have written two or more of the papers held on this site. The grouping sits inside a broader directory that arranges organisations by kind and by place, and readers can move from it to the general list of [institutions of all kinds](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/orgs/), where universities, laboratories, companies and other bodies from many countries are brought together.

Every institution in the New Zealand grouping is a university. No research laboratory, company, hospital, museum or government agency has yet met the two-paper threshold here. The universities that do appear are in separate cities on both main islands: Auckland and Hamilton in the North Island, Christchurch and Dunedin in the South Island. The grouping reflects only the papers this library holds. It shows where research done in New Zealand meets this collection, and it should not be read as a full account of science in the country.

### The universities on this site

The [University of Auckland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-auckland/), in the city of Auckland, has more works in our library than any other New Zealand institution. Its researchers' papers have gathered a substantial body of citations. By cited work it stands second among the New Zealand universities here, behind Waikato and ahead of Otago and Canterbury. Auckland therefore has the broadest presence in the library by number of papers, though not the strongest by citations.

The [University of Canterbury](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-canterbury/), in Christchurch, meets the threshold for inclusion exactly. It has the fewest works of the New Zealand group on this site, and those works have collected the smallest body of citations of the four cities' universities. Its presence is modest, but it shows that research from Christchurch has entered the collection more than once.

The [University of Otago](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-otago/), in Dunedin, is the most southerly university in the grouping. Its works here are cited more than Canterbury's and less than Auckland's. By number of papers it equals Waikato, though the citations to its work are far fewer than Waikato's.

The [University of Waikato](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waikato/), in Hamilton, has no more works in our library than Otago, yet those works have drawn by far the largest body of citations of any New Zealand institution here. On the measure the grouping uses, the cited work its scientists did there, Waikato carries the most weight. Its citations alone exceed those of all the other New Zealand universities taken together.

### Patterns in cited work

The grouping makes clear that citations are not spread evenly across New Zealand's universities on this site. Looked at paper by paper, Waikato's works stand far above the rest: each of its papers, on average, has drawn many times the attention of a typical paper from the other universities. Auckland comes next on this per-paper view, with its works cited noticeably more often on average than those of Otago or Canterbury. Otago and Canterbury sit close to each other, both averaging fewer citations per paper than Auckland.

Two measures therefore give somewhat different pictures. By number of works, Auckland comes first, with Otago and Waikato level behind it and Canterbury last. By cited work, Waikato comes first by a wide margin, then Auckland, Otago and Canterbury. Volume of output and the attention that output receives do not move together. A university with few papers in the collection can still be the most visible when one or more of those papers has been widely taken up by later research, and a larger set of papers does not by itself mean more citations.

These differences also reflect how small the New Zealand presence is. With few papers per university, a single heavily cited work can change an institution's standing within the grouping. Waikato's position may well rest on a small number of widely used papers, though the grouping alone does not show which ones. Readers should treat the comparison as a picture of this collection at present rather than as a settled pattern.

### Research strengths

The country grouping does not divide New Zealand's output by field, discipline or topic. It names the institutions, gives their kind and city, and compares them by the cited work of their scientists, but it does not state which subjects those scientists studied. Any claim about the country's research strengths would therefore go beyond what the grouping supports.

Details of subject matter are kept on the individual university pages, each of which presents its own works, people, topics and units. A reader who wants to know whether Auckland's papers here concern medicine, engineering, computing or another area, or what Waikato's widely cited papers are about, should turn to those pages. The country grouping is best used as an index that points to the institutions, with the substance of the research described one level down.

What can be said at country level is that, among the works here, New Zealand's research presence is entirely academic and is concentrated in a small set of universities, with the bulk of the citation attention going to one of them.

### Leading scientists and landmark works

The country grouping names no individual researchers and lists no single papers. It contains no list of people and no descriptions of specific works, so it cannot say who the most active or most cited New Zealand scientists on this site are, or which papers did the most to shape their fields.

The pattern of citations does show where the most cited New Zealand work in the collection is to be found. Since Waikato's works have attracted more citations than those of every other New Zealand university combined, the country's most visible contributions among the works here come from researchers at the University of Waikato. Auckland's papers form the next largest body of cited work, followed by Otago's and then Canterbury's. Readers looking for the particular authors and titles behind these figures will find them on the university pages, where people are listed alongside the works they wrote at each institution.

### Collaborations

The grouping gives no information on co-authorship or on links between institutions. It does not show whether New Zealand universities have worked with one another on the papers here, or whether their researchers wrote with colleagues abroad. Partnerships of that kind, where the library records them, appear on the pages of the individual universities and their scientists rather than at country level. Nothing in the country grouping should be taken as evidence for or against collaboration among the New Zealand institutions listed.

### Geography

For a short list, the New Zealand universities on this site cover a wide stretch of the country. Two are in the North Island, at Auckland and Hamilton, and two are in the South Island, at Christchurch and Dunedin. Each university is in its own city, so the grouping is not centred on a single place, and the main urban centres of both islands are represented.

Within that spread, cited work leans heavily to the north. Hamilton and Auckland together account for most of the citations tied to New Zealand institutions on this site, with Hamilton alone holding the largest share. The two South Island universities contribute smaller amounts, Dunedin somewhat more than Christchurch. By number of works the picture is more balanced: Auckland has the most papers, while Dunedin and Hamilton are level, and Christchurch has the fewest.

### Over time

The country grouping gives no publication years for the works behind it, and no dates for when institutions first appeared in the collection. It is therefore not possible to describe from it how New Zealand's research on this site developed, whether output rose or fell, or when the most cited papers appeared. Any timeline would have to come from the individual university pages, which list works with their details. At country level the grouping is a snapshot of the present collection.

### Reading the list

Several cautions help in reading the New Zealand grouping. First, it covers only papers held in this library. A university's small presence here, or the absence of an institution altogether, says nothing about its research activity beyond this collection. Second, the two-paper threshold means that institutions represented by a single paper are left out entirely, so some New Zealand organisations whose researchers have contributed to the library may not appear. This may explain why no laboratories, companies or government bodies are listed.

Third, the measure used to compare the universities, the cited work their scientists did there, is a way of describing presence within the collection. It is not a verdict on the quality, size or standing of any institution, and it can be shifted strongly by one or two heavily cited papers. Fourth, the grouping does not by itself show subjects, people, collaborations or years; those details belong to the pages of the individual institutions.

As the library grows, the list is likely to change. New institutions may pass the threshold, existing universities may add papers, and the balance of cited work among them may shift. For now, New Zealand's research on this site comes wholly from universities in Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch and Dunedin. Waikato has drawn the greatest share of attention through its cited papers, Auckland has the largest number of works, and Otago and Canterbury complete a country presence that reaches across both main islands.

## Where

## Agglomerations (4)

1. [**Hamilton**1 institution*1,750 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/hamilton/)
2. [**Auckland**1 institution*767 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/auckland/)
3. [**Dunedin**1 institution*385 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/dunedin/)
4. [**Christchurch**1 institution*246 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/christchurch/)

## Institutions (4)

### 🎓 Universities (4)

**[University of Waikato](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waikato/)**University · [Hamilton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/hamilton/), New Zealand*3 works · 1,750 citations*

**[University of Auckland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-auckland/)**University · [Auckland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/auckland/), New Zealand*4 works · 767 citations*

**[University of Otago](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-otago/)**University · [Dunedin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/dunedin/), New Zealand*3 works · 385 citations*

**[University of Canterbury](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-canterbury/)**University · [Christchurch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/christchurch/), New Zealand*2 works · 246 citations*

[See all 4 institutions →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/new-zealand/institutions/)

## People (2)

Authors with a page confirmed at its institutions, the most cited first.

[🧑‍🔬**Alistair Knott** University of Otago 3 papers here · 394 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alistair-knott/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jonathan Dunn** University of Canterbury 5 papers here · 90 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-dunn/)

## Works in our library (11)

Works of its institutions, the most cited first.

1. [**SemEval-2018 Task 1: Affect in Tweets**Saif Mohammad, Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Mohammad Salameh, et al.*2018 · 1,092 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammad-2018-semeval-2018-task-1-affect/)
2. [**Improving the Domain Adaptation of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Models for Open Domain Question Answering**Shamane Siriwardhana, Rivindu Weerasekera, Elliott Wen, et al.*2023 · 403 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/siriwardhana-2023-improving-domain-adaptation-retrieval-augmented/)
3. [**WASSA-2017 Shared Task on Emotion Intensity**Saif Mohammad, Felipe Bravo-Marquez*2017 · 368 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammad-2017-wassa-2017-shared-task-emotion/)
4. [**Anaphora and Discourse Structure**Bonnie Webber, Matthew Stone, Aravind Joshi, et al.*2003 · 315 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/webber-2003-anaphora-discourse-structure/)
5. [**Emotion Intensities in Tweets**Saif Mohammad, Felipe Bravo-Marquez*2017 · 290 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mohammad-2017-emotion-intensities-tweets/)
6. [**Humanity's Last Exam**Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han, et al.*2025 · 235 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2025-humanity-s-last-exam/)
7. [**Faithful Logical Reasoning via Symbolic Chain-of-Thought**Jundong Xu, Hao Fei, Liangming Pan, et al.*2024 · 129 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2024-faithful-logical-reasoning-symbolic-chain/)
8. [**Discourse Relations: A Structural and Presuppositional Account Using Lexicalised TAG**Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott, Matthew Stone, et al.*1999 · 70 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/webber-1999-discourse-relations-structural-presuppositional-account/)
9. [**Learned Construction Grammars Converge Across Registers Given Increased Exposure**Jonathan Dunn, Harish Tayyar Madabushi*2021 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dunn-2021-learned-construction-grammars-converge-across/)
10. [**ChineseDevBench: A Chinese Developmental Benchmark for Language Development**Shaonan Wang, Yiwen Wu, Na Li, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-chinesedevbench-chinese-developmental-benchmark-language/)
11. [**Wiktionary as a Crowdsourced Lexicon for English Dialects**Sidney Wong*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wong-2026-wiktionary-crowdsourced-lexicon-english-dialects/)

## Topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Sentiment & emotion (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Discourse analysis (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Implicature (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/)

## Fields

[Linguistics & languages (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Natural language processing (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Mathematics & statistics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/)

## Works by year

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