出版社：Australian Institutes for Educational Research
摘要：Our last IIER Editorial commentary upon journal rankings was in Editorial 17(2) in 2007 (McBeath & Atkinson, 2007). At the time, the rankings exercise cited in the Editorial was to serve the Australian Government's Research Quality Framework ('RQF'). The Editorial recorded our feeling that "...IIER has good prospects within the 'Comprehensive' category". With the change of government in 2007, the RQF died (Atkinson, 2008), but from the ashes arose Excellence in Research for Australia ('ERA'), relocated to another Australian Government agency, the Australian Research Council (ARC), which gave new life to the proponents for journal rankings. The ERA process delivered a Ranked Journal List (ARC, 2010a; Lamp, 2010) in which IIER seemed to fare reasonably, being given a Tier B ranking in a normative scale (Tier A*, top 5%; Tier A, next 15%; Tier B, next 30%; Tier C, bottom 50%).
