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The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative will undertake evaluations of the research in Australian higher education institutions at a discipline level according to research quality and activity. Evaluations will assess research excellence using a combination of indicators and expert review.
The development of these indicators has been assisted by expert advice provided by the Indicators Development Group (IDG) and sub-groups, and consultation with the research and higher education sector.
The IDG provided their recommendations to Professor Margaret Sheil in early-December 2008.
After considering the recommendations, the ARC has developed two key documents for the Cluster One and Two evaluations and the full-implementation of ERA. These are the:
- ERA Indicator Principles - PDF format (386kb) - RTF Format (1.5mb)
- ERA Indicator Descriptors - PDF format (597kb) - RTF Format (1.97mb)
The ERA Indicator Principles provide the overall context and application of the indicator approach.
The ERA Indicator Descriptors provide the detail of each indicator type, and an example profile of how they will be presented in the dashboard to the Research Evaluation Committees (RECs).
ERA journal lists
The ERA initiative will use a range of indicators and other proxies to support the evaluation of research excellence. One of these indicators is discipline-specific tiered outlet rankings.
The ARC has consulted with the sector to assist with the development of research journal rankings, a subset of tiered outlet rankings.
Information about the journal lists and consultation is available on the ERA journal lists page.