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Developing a quality ranking for history journals in Australia
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In 2010, the Excellence in Research for Australia assessment programme developed a controversial ranking of journals that was used as a proxy for the quality of the articles in those journals The ranking was later abandoned because of serious practical and principled problems as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
In 2010, the Excellence in Research for Australia assessment programme developed a controversial ranking of journals that was used as a proxy for the quality of the articles in those journals The ranking was later abandoned because of serious practical and principled problems The demand for ranking continues, however, from researchers and university managers For Humanities disciplines, ranking has advantages over citation analysis, especially in assessing recent work This article discusses the emergence of journal ranking in Australia, especially as it has affected the discipline of History, and concludes by outlining how a ranking might responsibly be carried outread more
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History Australia: a historical snapshot
TL;DR: A review of History Australia's first 20 years explores research and disciplinary trends advanced by the journal, as well as its contribution to understanding the role and function of Australian history as mentioned in this paper.
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How to Rank Journals
TL;DR: A κ-resampled composite journal rank incorporating five popular citation indices is developed incorporating Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Source-Normalized Impact Per Paper, SCImago Journal Rank and Google 5-year h-index; this approach provides an index of relative rank uncertainty.
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Arts and Humanities Research Evaluation: No Metrics Please, Just Data
Mike Thelwall,Maria M. Delgado +1 more
TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to make an explicit case for the use of data with contextual information as evidence in arts and humanities research evaluations rather than systematic metrics.