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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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This Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) report presents a comprehensive assessment by discipline of the research quality and research activity within Australia’s higher education institutions. ERA provides information on discipline-specific research activity of each eligible Australian higher education institution and its contributions in that discipline to the national landscape. The report is divided into four sections: Section 1: ERA national overview provides a national summary of evaluation outcomes as well as a summary of national data submitted for the purposes of ERA evaluation; Section 2: ERA national profiles by field of research (FoR) code provides a summary of evaluation outcomes and data for each FoR code, including ERA rating outcomes and key volume and activity information as well as a summary of the four-digit evaluations; Section 3: ERA national summary of indicators by FoR codes provides a detailed breakdown of ERA indicators by two-digit and four-digit FoR codes; and Section 4: Australian institution report provides the ERA ratings for each two-digit and four-digit assessable unit of evaluation by the 41 institutions eligible for ERA. Show less