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The study also considered the level of alignment between authors’ allocation of Fields of Research codes and the codes assigned to the journals in which they were published. The conclusion is reached that authors are still coming to an understanding of the impact of research assessment on their publishing choices and the process of scholarly communication within their discipline. Findings point to a number of concerns about the impact of both journal ranking and discipline-specific research codes.  \nIntroduction  \nA number of countries have implemented frameworks for assessment of research productivity in their higher education sectors. These include the PerformanceBased Research Fund in New Zealand and the United Kingdom’s Research Assessment Exercise (soon to be superseded by the Research Excellence Framework) . In Australia, the Australian Research Council (ARC) has developed Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) as a key component of its drive to produce greater accountability in the Australian research environment.  \nCentral to the ERA is the process of assessing the quality of research outputs using two independent but linked mechanisms. First, the ranking of scholarly journals into one of four tiers, with articles differentially‘rewarded’according to the tier assigned to the journal in which they are published.And second, the creation of eight disciplinary clusters, identified by two-digit Fields of Research (FoR) codes (derived from the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ABS, 2008)) . Each cluster is then subdivided into sub-disciplines identified by four-digits FoRs. These two mechanisms provide the framework for each journal article to be assessed in relation to quality and discipline, and their use is unique in the context of a national research assessment exercise.  \nCommentary on assessment methodology has speculated about the likely impact of journal ranking as a component of research assessment (Howard, 2008), and the effect of assigning journals to a hierarchy of‘merit’that rewards publication in journals deemed tobe of high quality (Genoni & Haddow, 2009; Redden, 2008) . Critics have argued that one impact of ranking will be to compel authors to target obsessively the comparatively small number of highly ranked journals without regard for their desire to direct articles to the journal and readership to which they are best suited; and that this will in turn have a detrimental impact upon more lowly ranked journals as their viability is threatened by the diminishing supply of papers (Cameron, 2005) . In this regard some commentators indicate that journals with a national focus are particularly vulnerable, as has already been witnessed in the Australian context by the cessation of the journal People and Place (Lane, 2011) .  \nIt has also been argued that there may be adverse implications for the highly ranked journals, with editors and reviewers finding it difficult to manage the greater number of submitted papers (Genoni & Haddow, 2009) . As a result it has been suggested that journal ranking could distort the process of formal scholarly communication that has evolved over several centuries. This may include cases where editors and  \n88 FoR codes pendulum, Dawn Bennett, Paul Genoni & Gaby Haddow vol. 53, no. 2, 2011  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nauthors alike are enticed to manipulate the ‘system’in order to maximise the rewards on offer (Cameron, 2005; Jasco, 2006; Cooper & Poletti, 2011), and to meet the changing demands of higher education institutions (Gye, 2009;Wright, Bennett &","cbCaihqyKRANvlmt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihqyKRANvlmt","pdf",252530,11,"English","# Introduction\n# FoR codes\n## Key role of FoR codes in ERA\n## Differences in FoR allocation for journal articles","[{\"question\":\"What does the study examine about Australian authors’ publishing decisions?\",\"answer\":\"It examines the impacts of journal ranking and Fields of Research (FoR) codes on authors’ publishing decisions, including how well authors’ FoR allocations match the journals’ assigned codes.\"},{\"question\":\"How are journal articles assessed under the ERA framework?\",\"answer\":\"Articles are assessed using both journal ranking tiers and disciplinary clusters derived from two-digit FoR codes, with further subdivision into four-digit FoRs for sub-disciplines.\"},{\"question\":\"Why might FoR codes affect multidisciplinary research outputs differently?\",\"answer\":\"Non-journal outputs can receive up to three FoR codes to reflect multidisciplinary elements, while journal articles are limited to the FoRs allocated to the journal, which can restrict representation of interdisciplinary components.\"}]","FoR codes pendulum - Publishing choices within Australian research assessment | PDF",1792081255,28]