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Background
19,500 unique peer reviewed journals have been identified to form a draft list of ranked journals. Each journal has a single quality rating and is assigned to one or more disciplines defined by Field of Research (FoR) code(s) (four-digit). The full list of FoR codes can be found in the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) document.
The draft ranked journals list includes journals, assigned to two-digit FoR codes, which publish articles relating to all of the four-digit codes beneath it. The journal list also contains multidisciplinary journals, which have been identified as multi-science, and general social sciences and humanities.
A journal's quality rating represents the overall quality of the journal. This is defined in terms of how it compares with other journals and should not be confused with its relevance or importance to a particular discipline. There are four tiers of quality rating and their definitions can be found here.
FoR codes assigned to each journal are considered to be core to the particular journal. It is accepted that a journal will contain some research that falls outside the assigned FoR. However, it is important that the FoR assignment is kept as focused as possible to the majority of the content published by the journal.
The FoR assignment will be used to develop the journal sets which will be used to derive citation benchmarks. Including journals that are not core to the field will diminish the quality and accuracy of the citation benchmarks.
20/8/08
