Stochastic Trend

I just submitted the final report for this funded project which has been running since 2012 to the research office. We achieved most of th...

We - myself together with Stephan Bruns and Alessio Moneta - got an ARC Discovery Projects grant. Thanks also to Zsuzsanna Csereklyei who co...

A new paper with Stephan Bruns on carrying out research assessment like the UK REF and the Australian ERA using citations data rather t...

Does measuring something change it?  In quantum mechanics measurement disturbs what is being measured, which is referred to as the observ...

Existing research finds strong correlations between the rankings produced by UK research assessment exercises (RAE) and bibliometric analys...

We have put out a news story on my paper about predicting future citations.

I have posted a new bibliometric working paper , which investigates how well we can predict future cumulative citations from the first cita...

A coup for Monash University -  John List to take up fractional appointment at Monash ! One motivation for this move would be the ...

This document provides a helpful list of changes from ERA 2012 to ERA 2015. The changes are minor. A good one, is a clampdown on abuse of ...

The ARC released the funding rules for the current grant round. A single document now also includes the rules for the DECRA, Laureate fell...

In yesterday's mid-year budget update, the Australian government announced cuts to ARC funding . $103 million will be cut over a 4 year...

Interesting article on how the UK's Research Excellence Framework evolved. An interesting comment is: "Per pound distributed, the...

The ARC has released its schedule of important dates for 2014 . In the past, funding rules and application dates have only been released cl...

Yesterday I went to a presentation by the head of the Australian Research Council, Aidan Byrne. I asked him to comment on the article in th...

That's the message I get from this interview with the head of the ARC, Aidan Byrne (formerly a science dean at ANU) in the Australian. ...

The Group of Eight are Australia's equivalent to the US R1 (or RU/VH in current terminology) universities. They are a self-nominatin...

There is lots of interesting information in the ERA 2012 report. One item of interest to an audience beyond Australia is the average number...

The ERA 2012 results are out this morning. ANU got a 5 in economics compared to a 4 in ERA 2010. We got a 5 in econometrics and 4 in appli...

There has been a lot of uncertainty recently about what is happening with research funding in Australia. There have been no announcements ...

The ARC announced the award of this year's round of Laureate Fellowships. The Laureate Fellowships - previously called 'Federation ...