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