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It argues that the audit-driven measurement process is flawed and erodes the academic contexts that produce quality, including collegiality, international research networks, the socio-cultural role of journals, and digital-era research practices. 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We argue this process isnot only a flawed system of measurement, but more significantly erodes the very contexts that produce ‘quality’ research. We argue that collegiality, networks of international research, the socio-cultural role of the academic journal, as well as the way academics research in the digital era, are either ignored or negatively impacted upon by ranking exercises such as those posed by the ERA.  \nIt has recently been announced that the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative will remain largely unchanged in the coming year, and will remain as an instrument used by the Australian Government to determine the level of research funding available to Australian universities (Rowbotham 2010) .While there has been some unease about the ERA amongst academics, many seem resigned to the process. Perhaps some have simply accepted the onset of the audit regime and have bunkered down. Others perhaps welcome the chance to operate within the competitive environment the ERA brings, having discarded (or perhaps never subscribed to) the older cultures of collegiality that, as we shall see, are hollowed out by cultures of audit. Others may simply believe that the ERA provides a relatively neutral way to measure and determine quality, thus accepting the benign, if somewhat unspecific assurances from Senator Kim Carr and Australian Research Council Chief Professor Margaret Sheil that academics who stick to what they are good at will be supported by the ERA.  \nThe ERA represents a full-scale transformation of Australian universities into a culture of audit. While  \naspects of auditing have been part of the Australian context for some time,Australian universities have not faced anything like say, the UK situation where intensive and complex research assessment exercises have been occurring for over two decades. Until now that is, and a glance at the state of higher education in the UK ought to give pause. Responding to the ERA requires more than tinkering with various criteria for measuring quality. Instead we suggest the need to return to‘basics’ and discuss how any comprehensive auditing regime threatens to alter and in all likelihood undermine the capacity for universities to produce innovative research and critical thought.To say this is not to argue that these things will no longer exist, but that they will decline as careers, research decisions, cultures of academic debate and reading are distorted by the ERA. The essential ‘dysfunctionality’of the ERA for institutions and individual researchers is the focus of this article.  \nIn discussing the pernicious impacts of auditing schemes we focus in particular on the journal ranking process that forms a significant part of the ERA.While the ERA will eventually rank other research activities  \nvol. 53, no. 1, 2011 The new ERA of journal ranking, Simon Cooper & Anna Poletti 57  \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  \nsuch as conferences, publishers and so on, the specifics of this process remain uncertain, while journals have been ranked and remain the focal point of discussions concerning the ERA. In what follows we explore the arbitrary nature of any attempt to ‘rank’ journals, and examine the critiques levelled at both metrics and peer review criteria.We also question the assumption that audit systems are here to stay and the best option remains being attentive to the ‘gaps’in techniques that measure academic research, redressing them where possible. Instead we explore how activities such as ranking journals are not only flawed but more significantly erode the very contexts that produce ‘quality’research. We argue that collegiality","cbCaiitbs8CoC9WC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiitbs8CoC9WC","pdf",144586,"English","# Introduction\n## Journal ranking within ERA\n# Critiques of ranking and peer review\n## Impacts on research contexts\n# ERA as an audit culture\n## From RQF to ERA","[{\"question\":\"What does the article argue about ERA journal rankings?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that ranking processes under ERA are flawed measurement systems and erode the contexts that enable “quality” research.\"},{\"question\":\"Which impacts of auditing are emphasized?\",\"answer\":\"The article focuses on how ERA-related exercises negatively affect collegiality, international research networks, the journal’s socio-cultural role, and research practices in the digital era.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the ERA relate to the previous RQF system?\",\"answer\":\"The text states that the Australian Labor Party introduced ERA in 2008, replacing the RQF, which relied on peer review, disciplinary clusters, expert panels, and extensive submissions.\"}]","The new ERA of journal ranking - read and critique | PDF",1792081212,23]