Dear all,
Recently, our university has announced a position paper that further raised the threshold of research performance/assessment. Besides exhibitions, the refereed academic journals made available for design faculties like myself is extremely limited, i.e., only one B grade design journal based on the Science Citation Index (?!) and the impact factor (all grade C journals are not counted). The threshold announced by our department (that consists of three areas: deisgn, technology and business) for an Assistant Professor to meet withinn a period of 3 years is 3 papers in a B grade journal(s) + success in external competitive research funding (research thresholds for Associate Professor, Professor and Chair Professor are being formulated and to be announced).
These all sound a bit weird to me, as it literally means that design faculties have to keep submitting papers to one and only one grade B design journal to have their outputs counted to save their contract. Our Visiting Chair Professor (Design) is currently in the UK soliciting journal lists from art and design colleges in the UK that were rated 5 in the last RAE exercise to study their 'legitimate' list of design journals to which their staff have been submitting for developmental purpose. Meanwhile, if you do have a list of design journals that your staff have been using for RAE exercise and the like, I would love to be enlighted.
Regards,
Frankie
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Dr Frankie Ng
Associate Professor / Design Subject Chair
Institute of Textiles and Clothing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: 27666462
Fax: 27731432
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