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ERA: ERA/RQF Resources

Selected ERA resources

• ARC Journal title list
• The La Trobe University, Research and Graduate Studies Office ERA website.
• Library Digital Repository
• Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (2008)
  Excellence in Research for Australia Fact Sheet 
• Australian Research Council (2008)
  The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Initiative (includes Fact Sheets, presentations etc).
• ERA Indicator Principles. 19 December 2008 Excellence in Research Australia.
  Australian Research Council (AU)
  http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/ERA_Indicator_Principles.pdf
• ERA Indicator Descriptors. 19 December 2008 Excellence in Research Australia.
  Australian Research Council (AU)
  http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/ERA_Indicator_Descriptors.pdf
• Indicators of excellence for the new ERA. Media Release 19 December 2008 Excellence in Research Australia.
  Australian Research Council (AU)
  http://www.arc.gov.au/media/releases/media_19Dec08.htm
• JISC Annual Review 2008. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) (UK)
  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/annualreview08
• 2009 June 24-26 Cologne NCeSS 2009 Conference: The 5th International Conference on e-Social Science. National Centre for e-Social Science, held in collaboration with the German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS)
  http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09
• Thomson Reuters (2008)
  Preserving the Integrity of The Journal Impact Factor Guidelines from the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters.

 

Selected RQF resources

• Archambault, É. and Gagné, É. V. (2004) Science Metrix Final Report - The use of bibliometrics in the social sciences and humanities.  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), Science Metrics, Montreal, Canada.
• Berkowitz, P. (2005) Bibliometric indicators – use with caution. University News, March.
• Butler, Linda RQF Pilot Study Project – History and Political Science. Methodology for Citation Analysis. November 2006
• CDNM (ANZ) (2006) Research Advisory Group project proposal. Development of a ranking of refereed journals in which Australian and New Zealand nursing and midwifery researchers publish their work.
• CHASS (Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) (2005) Measures of quality and impact of publicly-funded research in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Canberra: CHASS
• Council of Australian University Librarians, Bibliometrics and Research Quality Framework Performance Indicators Forum, UNSW, 1 May 2006.
• Donovan, C. (2005) A review of current Australian and international practice in measuring the quality and impact of publicly funded research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. REPP Discussion Paper 05/3, November (PDF file)
• Marginson, S. (2006) Australian universities in the global context. Paper presented at the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit, 22-23 March 2006.  
• Pauly, D. and Stergiou, K.I. (2005) Equivalence of results from two citation analyses: Thomson ISI’s Citation Index and Google’s Scholar service, Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, December.  33-35. 
• Research Evaluation and Policy Project.(2005)  Quantitative indicators for research assessment – a literature review. Research School of Social Sciences. Australian National University
• Seglen, P. O. (1997) Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research, British Medical Journal, 314 (7079), 498-502.
• Thomson Scientific (2006) The ISI impact factor.
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (2005) What do bibliometric indicators tell us about world scientific output? UIS Bulletin on Science and Technology Statistics. Sept, (2)  
• Williams, R. (2005). Broadening the Criteria: Lessons from the Australian Ranking. Paper presented at the First International Conference on World Class Universities. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, June 16-18 2005.