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Research Performance
Each year Australian Catholic University (ACU) collects details of research publications and other research outputs, funded and unfunded research projects for the preceding year.
The collection serves multiple purposes:
- to provide data to DIISR for the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC);
- for evaluation of ACU's research through the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative;
- to provide data to DIISR for the Sustainable Research Excellence (SRE) Research Hours Data Collection;
- for the biannual survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistic (ABS) on research and experimental development in Australia;
- to provide a publicly available record of research activities through the ACU Research Bank;
- To provide data for ACU to measure and benchmark our research performance.
Data provided for HERDC, SRE and for the ERA initiative determine the amount of research funding received by ACU under research programs managed by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR).
A summary of the 2011 research reporting requirements is available here (PDF 84KB).
Glossary of terms
Research Services has begun building a glossary of research reporting terms to ensure we all have the same understanding in our use of data and terminology.
- Author eligibility differs depending on the research collection. Please refer to our author eligibility page for an explanation.
- Weighted refers to the DIISR weighting of publications where the books = 5 x institutional apportionment, book chapters = 1 x institutional apportionment as calculate and journal articles / conference publications = 1 x institutional apportionment
- Institutional Apportionment refers to the apportionment of all ACU authors and is used in External Reporting (HERDC, benchmarking)
- Author Apportionment refers to the apportionment of each individual author and is used in Internal Reporting (performance measures, ranking, workload)
- Non-affiliated refers to research publications where the author affiliation is not to ACU. These publications can be reported by ACU for ERA.
- Verified refers to a research publication that has already been audited and qualified as a HERDC-eligible research publication or ERA non-traditional research output at a previous University or Institution.
For example:
A HERDC eligible book, written by 4 authors, two of whom are affiliated with ACU
- Author apportionment = 0.25 for each author
- Institutional apportionment = 0.5 (two ACU authors)
- Weighting = 2.5 (two ACU authors x 5)
A HERDC eligible journal article, written by 3 authors, two of whom are affiliated with ACU
- Author apportionment = 0.33 for each author
- Institutional apportionment = 0.66 (two ACU authors)
- Weighting = 0.66 (two ACU authors x 1)
