[csaa-forum] Re: ERA rankings

[Jon Stratton]

   Thanks for this, Ariel. <ponder>.  Ranking journals immediately opens the way for claims about the quality of a person's research dependent on what journals they publish in.  I find it hard to believe that, if it were found that the researchers in university x published predominantly in journals classified as C as compared to researchers in university y who published predominantly in journals classifed as A* and A, that a different valuation would be made about the quality of research at university x as compared to university y.  More, I find it hard to believe that the university administrators in university x would not start putting pressure on their researchers to publish in journals that are ranked higher because they would expect that, at some point, first prestige then funding would become issues.  Which makes me wonder, if Krishna is right, why she thinks this exercise is being perpetrated on us!
cheers,
Jon

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Subject: [csaa-forum] Re: ERA rankings



Dear All:

Just in case useful. Last week at the ASAA Conference in Melbourne, I
attended a special session on ERA, where Krishna Sen, Executive
(Director of Humanities and Creative Arts, Australian Research Council)
spoke. Two things that she emphasised more than once were (a) that this
whole ERA excerise will not consider "impact", and (b) it will not in
any way be connected to funding to universities (thus implying that no
one in any immediate and material terms will be penalised for being
ranked low). She also said, with some pride, these are two things that
distinguish ERA from RQF.

Ariel
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