yes, I welcome the end of the ERA rankings. Aside from all the other problems, the Fibreculture Journal has had three different rankings so far. And we began as a "textiles" journal, as far as the ERA was concerned.<br>
<br>However, I'm also concerned about a potential de facto hijacking of publishing, by the ARC/government, via an imposition of "profiles" and processes etc. Hopefully I'm wrong. Maybe it's just going to be the ARC deciding things for themselves. Trying to "profile" 17,000 or whatever journals would be even more impossible and foolish than ranking them.<br>
<br>Although, a friend put it to me that the rankings had collapsed because the Academy of Science didn't like it in the end. So maybe we have to look in that direction to see what might be next.<br><br>There also seems to be a remaining confusion between encouraging "multi-disciplinarity" and profile per "unit", etc, which doesn't suit cultural studies or theory too well. <br>
<br>Still, it was cheering news.<br><br>cheers, a<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 May 2011 12:51, Rob Garbutt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob.garbutt@scu.edu.au">rob.garbutt@scu.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Jon,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the link. I guess it sounds good but I'm wondering about<br>
the replacement for journal rankings.<br>
<br>
Does anyone have an insight into what "the introduction of a journal<br>
quality profile, showing the most frequently published journals for<br>
each unit of evaluation" means?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Rob.<br>
<br>
><br>
>Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:13:21 +0800<br>
>From: "Jon Stratton" <<a href="mailto:J.Stratton@curtin.edu.au">J.Stratton@curtin.edu.au</a>><br>
>Subject: [csaa-forum] removal of journal ramking system<br>
>To: <<a href="mailto:csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au">csaa-forum@lists.cdu.edu.au</a>><br>
><br>
> Hi Everybody,<br>
> In case anyone missed the announcement, yesterday Kim Carr<br>
>issued a press release relating to changes in the ERA scheme. One<br>
>of the key changes is that journals will no longer be ranked--that<br>
>is, no longer be allocated A*, A, B, C rankings. You can find the<br>
>ministerial statement here:<br>
><a href="http://minister.innovation.gov.au/Carr/MediaReleases/Pages/IMPROVEMENTSTOEXCELLENCEINRESEARCHFORAUSTRALIA.aspx" target="_blank">http://minister.innovation.gov.au/Carr/MediaReleases/Pages/IMPROVEMENTSTOEXCELLENCEINRESEARCHFORAUSTRALIA.aspx</a><br>
><br>
>cheers,<br>
>Jon<br>
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