{"id":152,"date":"2011-03-04T01:06:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T00:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=152"},"modified":"2011-03-04T01:06:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T00:06:20","slug":"rating-and-ranking-australian-injury-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2011\/03\/04\/rating-and-ranking-australian-injury-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Rating and Ranking Australian Injury Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From editorial board member Caroline Finch:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers and research institutions are sifting through the outcomes of the first national <em>Excellence in Research for Australia<\/em> (ERA) assessment which includes, amongst other things, ranking of the  quality of research outputs according to the journal in which they  appear.\u00a0 The list of journal rankings is not  without controversy and some concerns have been expressed about the  relative rankings of some journals within some fields.\u00a0 A  4 point scale is used to rank journals: A*, A, B and C (or not listed),  with researchers in many Australian institutes being urged by them to  publish only in A* or A journals. <strong> Injury Prevention<\/strong> is currently ranked as an A journal.<\/p>\n<p>Australian  researchers are about to enter a second assessment round and, in  preparation for this, the Australian Research Council is undertaking a  public consultation which invites all  interested parties to submit new titles for consideration, make  submissions on existing titles and request a journal that does not meet  the eligibility criteria to be deleted.\u00a0 The closing date is 21<sup>st<\/sup> March 2011 and more info can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/roci.arc.gov.au\/Static\/ERA_2012_Ranked_Outlets_Consultation_Fact_Sheet.pdf\">https:\/\/roci.arc.gov.au\/Static\/ERA_2012_Ranked_Outlets_Consultation_Fact_Sheet.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All  researchers, especially colleagues from Australia or those who publish  with Australian collaborators, should actively engage with this  consultation process to ensure that all injury research continues to be  highly rated in national research quality assessments.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From editorial board member Caroline Finch: Australian researchers and research institutions are sifting through the outcomes of the first national Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment which includes, amongst other things, ranking of the quality of research outputs according to the journal in which they appear.\u00a0 The list of journal rankings is not without [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2011\/03\/04\/rating-and-ranking-australian-injury-research\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}