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“Controversial Journal Rankings in Australia Affect Research Funds and Careers”

May 17, 2011

The Australian Research Council has been testing out a framework called the Excellence in Research for Australia, or ERA, as way to measure the quality of research in all disciplines. ERA includes journal rankings, assigning each journal a rank of A*, A, B, or C. Some scholars and journal editors in the social sciences and humanities say the rankings don’t reflect the quality of their work, and worry that the rankings are being misused as a way to measure individual scholars’ output.

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