Stevan
The Australian ranked lists are developed by committees set up by relevant
professional bodies in Australia (for example CORE - the peak research body
in computer science in Australia). Similarly for other sub-disciplines, like
Physics, Chemistry etc down to even finer detail. This is true peer reviewed
ranking, but of course colored by self-interest.
I view it as a start towards a set of metrics, because it at least competes
with JIFs and citation counts (albeit an ISI one which is useless to
computer science).
Please don't mistake the [Australian] Academy of Science's call for comment
as anything other than that. It is not a web-based opinion poll. The
rankings were developed by peers, and I would expect little change as a
result of releasing then for public [researcher] comment.
Arthur Sale PhD
Professor of Computer Science
University of Tasmania
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> Science - Research Quality Framework journal rankings
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> > Research Quality Framework (RQF)
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> > The Academy is inviting feedback to the draft Research Quality
> > Framework (RQF) journal lists ranked by expert groups through the
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> > http://www.science.org.au/rqf.htm
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> Determining journal quality based on an unfiltered web-based opinion
> poll makes almost as little sense as doing it on the basis of polling
> preferences for the color of the journal's cover.
>
> A targeted evaluation by qualified peers would make far more sense.
>
> And even then, the journal's rated quality or impact factor (average
> citation count) should only be one (or two) in a rich battery of
> candidate metrics (including article citation counts, author citation
> counts, download counts, co-citations, chronometrics for citations and
> downloads, hub/authority indices, endogamy measures, "h-index," funding,
> students, and many other candidate metrics), jointly cross-validated
> and weighted, in a multiple regression equation, against qualified peer
> evaluations or other criteria that are either face-valid or have already
> been validated.
>
> Harnad, S. (2007) Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research
> Assessment Exercise. In: Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of the
> International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics 11(1), pp.
> 27-33, Madrid, Spain. Torres-Salinas, D. and Moed, H. F., Eds.
> http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13804/
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