This report presents a comprehensive assessment by discipline of the quality of research activity conducted in Australia's higher education institutions. This report provides information on the discipline-specific research activity of each eligible Australian higher education institution (see Appendix 1: eligible institutions), and the contribution of each discipline to the national landscape. The report is divided into five sections which are listed below: (1) the introduction provides an overview of the [Excellence in Research for Australia] ERA framework and methodology; (2) section one, 'E
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This report presents a comprehensive assessment by discipline of the quality of research activity conducted in Australia's higher education institutions. This report provides information on the discipline-specific research activity of each eligible Australian higher education institution (see Appendix 1: eligible institutions), and the contribution of each discipline to the national landscape. The report is divided into five sections which are listed below: (1) the introduction provides an overview of the [Excellence in Research for Australia] ERA framework and methodology; (2) section one, 'ERA 2012 national overview', provides a national summary of world standard research performance, a summary of all data submitted for the purposes of ERA evaluation, and some observations arising from ERA 2012 submission data; (3) section two, 'Results by Fields of Research (FoR) code, provides a summary of evaluation outcomes and data for each FoR code, including ERA rating outcomes, information about interdisciplinary research, and key volume and activity information; (4) section three, 'National profiles by FoR code', provides a detailed breakdown of ERA data by two-digit and four-digit FoR codes; and (5) section four, 'ERA 2012 institution report', provides the ERA ratings for each assessable Unit of Evaluation (UoE) for each of the 41 institutions eligible for ERA.
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