[csaa-forum] Re: ERA rankings

[Ariel Heryanto]

Hi Jon (and other members):

You are the first or only person to have such reaction. Consultation 
Paper <http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/ERA_ConsultationPaper.pdf> (ERA, June 
2008) reads: "ERA will not determine the allocation of research block 
grants." (p. 6). If you have not, you  may like to  see the  entire 
paper hyperlinked above.

Best,
Ariel

Jon Stratton said the following on 7/07/2008 3:01 PM:
>  
>    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
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> 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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