Hi Chris (and all)
Unfortunately these two formats are the only ways the Australian
Research Council has produced the journal and conference rankings. It's
a pity for anyone who actually wants to make use of the data.
Luckily, a savvy computer scientist at Deakin University has created a
simple database using the data from the spreadsheets and many Australian
universities rely heavily on it. You can find the website here:
http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/index.php
Kind regards
Rebecca
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Swinburne University of Technology
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From: Chris Rusbridge <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 31/03/2010 23:09 PM
Subject: Re: Australian Lists of Journals and Conferences
Arthur, any chance of persuading them to publish their data other than
in Excel or Zip form? Downloading a file is fine if one wants to make
extensive use of it, but if one only wants to check something, it's not
so brilliant.
A simple HTML list would be OK, RDF even better?
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Chris Rusbridge
Director, Digital Curation Centre
Email: [log in to unmask] Phone 0131 6513823
University of Edinburgh
Appleton Tower, Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9LE
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Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
On 31 Mar 2010, at 00:38, Arthur Sale wrote:
> I have been waiting for the Australian Government to post to these
lists, but they haven’t.
>
> So let me advise you that the Australian Research Council (ARC) has
published its definitive lists of ranked journals used by Australians,
and ranked conferences in selected disciplines. I emphasize that (a)
these are lists relevant to Australians, and (b) the verb ‘used’
conveys the proper relationship between author and publisher. The
Journal of the American Beaver or the International Journal of
Up-Helly-Aa are unlikely to appear (if they exist). Though they might be
in the list if we have an Australian researcher working in these fields.
Australians are rather eclectic in where they publish (3% of the
world’s research). There is in fact very little local!
>
> Please point your browser to the ARC’s page on ranked outlets
http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_journal_list.htm. Warning: if you
download the files on this page they are fairly big. But invaluable.
>
> The rankings were developed after a two-year consultation with
Australia’s professional societies (and their members) and the
Academies (important Australians in several groupings eg Science,
Humanities).
>
> Note that the journals are ranked A+, A, B. C and only the first two
categories are regarded as important. They are likely to be
internationally relevant. Bs and Cs will contain most of the local
stuff. Publishers will dispute rankings of course and the C category is
no doubt missing many which are irrelevant to us.
>
> Conferences are ranked A, B, C with A regarded as important. Only
selected disciplines have ranked conferences (eg computer science) where
these are regarded as important research outlets as journals.
>
> Arthur
>
>
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