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End of an ERA : journal rankings dropped - Jill Rowbotham, "The Australian", 30 mai 2011
mardi 7 juin 2011, par
L’ERA (équivalent de l’AERES en Australie) vient de décider qu’elle
n’évaluerait plus les publications en fonction d’un classement des revues.
Pour le ministre, les classements avaient des effets indésirables sur la recherche (en introduisant un management par objectifs).
Une réforme portera sur :
le renforcement de l’importance de l’expertise disciplinaire des
évaluateurs et de leur sens de la nuance, la prise en compte des recherches interdisciplinaires, le renforcement des mécanismes d’évaluation par les pairs (notamment dans le choix des évaluateurs).
JOURNALS will no longer be assigned rankings in a radical shake up of the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative, announced by Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr today.
JOURNALS will no longer be assigned rankings in a radical shake up of the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative, announced by Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr today.
The ranking of journals as A*, A, B and C was the most contentious aspect of the ERA exercise devised and administered by the Australian Research Council, with the first results published in January.
``I wished to explore ways in which we could improve ERA so the aspects of the exercise causing sector disquiet, especially issues around the ranked journals list, could be minimised or even overcome,’’ Senator Carr said in a ministerial statement.
He chastised the research community, saying : ``There is clear and consistent evidence that the rankings were being deployed inappropriately within some quarters of the sector, in ways that could produce harmful outcomes, and based on a poor understanding of the actual role of the rankings.
``One common example was the setting of targets for publication in A and A* journals by institutional research managers.
``In light of these two factors - that ERA could work perfectly well without the rankings, and that their existence was focussing ill-informed undesirable behaviour in the management of research - I have made the decision to remove the rankings, based on the ARC’s expert advice.’’
Senator Carr said lists of journals would still be important, and each journal would be provided with a publication profile, that is, an indication of how often it was chosen as the forum of publication by academics in a given field.
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