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La question centrale de ce carnet de recherches est celle de savoir comment évaluer la recherche, et nous avons accordé une importance particulière à la question de l'évaluation des revues. Est-il seulement possible, et cela a-t-il tout simplement un sens, de chercher des critères d'évaluation des revues allant au-delà de ce que notre sens commun de chercheurs nous apprend, à savoir que— certaines revues suivent des procédures du type lecture en double aveugle, d'autres non ;— certaines revues sont plus connues, plus anciennes, plus visibles, d'autres moins ;— chacun d'entre nous a un petit panthéon de revues qu'il apprécie plus (et peut-être aussi quelques enfers de revues dans lesquelles il voit ce qu'il ne fut pas faire…).Aller au-delà, si on est un peu sérieux, c'est mettre en place des indicateurs quantitatifs. Oui, mais, des indicateurs indiquant quoi ? On en connaissait déjà plusieurs, en particulier :— le nombre d'abonnements des revues,— un indice de citation des revues (qui peut être diversement calculé),— le pourcentage de rejet des articles.Claire nous signale qu'elle vient de recevoir, via la liste eh.news, le message suivant, qui montre que la star academy des revues se met en place à grande vitesse. Nous passions déjà le plus clair de notre temps sur nos ordinateurs, nous allons maintenant le passer à voter pour nos revues préférées, de manière à éliminer les autres.We are writing to you as concerned members of the Economic History Society ofAustralia and New Zealand associated with the journal, the AustralianEconomic History Review (AEHR).You may be aware that the Australian Government has recently announced aworld-wide review of research journal rankings across all researchdisciplines through its Australian Research Council (ARC) Excellence inResearch Australia (ERA) website. The ERA published its first journalrankings in 2010 and now it intends to publish a new list in 2012. Theprocess carries significant implications not only for Australian but alsointernational scholars publishing in the fields of economic and businesshistory.The 2010 list of journals included rankings in each discipline with A*(highest rated = top 5% of a disciplines’ journals); A (next 15%), B (next25%) and C (the remainder) of peer-reviewed, academically rigorous, scholarlyjournals. The complete rankings are available athttp://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_journal_list.htmIn the 2010 ranking the AEHR received an A ranking.We wish to retain this ranking and we ask your support to respond to theenquiry no later than April 4.All economic, business and social history scholars, regardless of country oflocation are eligible to enrol with the Australian government website asreviewers in the current review, and advise the government to retain the orchange the existing rating on any applied economics journal they wish.We are hoping you would be prepared to enter yourself on the Australiangovernment (ARC/ERA) website and declare your view on the ranking of AEHR.If you wish to confirm AEHR’s current A ranking (and that is entirely yourdecision), you must actually click a “confirm” current ranking button andwrite a short justifying comment.To rank world journals and submit for this review, just click onhttp://roci.arc.gov.au/ http://roci.arc.gov.au/Then click on “login/register” tab at the top of the webpage and enrol.The system will ask you to nominate a journal group and a particular journalEnter FoR group code “1402” for the Australian government’s general‘Applied Economics’ classification or “2202” for History andPhilosophy- either will workEnter “Australian Economic History Review” as your selected journalThe system will then ask you to type in why you are qualified to comment (egacademic researcher, past reviewer, past author, editorial board member etc)It will ask you to go through 5 steps including one to confirm or recommendchange to AEHR’s current ranking and give you space to comment why.That’s all you need to do. Please don’t feel you need to reply to us -what you decide to do regarding this is entirely your prerogative.Your response is also an opportunity to convince the ARC that it isappropriate to list further economic history journals as A* journals, as wellas business history journals to be A*. The argument could be that thejournals you nominate are worthy of it, or that economic history is anintegral part of teaching and research in economics and in business studiesmore generally and that a greater number of highly ranked outlets forresearch is appropriate.We have attached more information about the journal and the current review inthe attached document.If you are willing to help us ensure economic and business history ingeneral, and the Australian Economic History Review in particular, remainrelevant and at the forefront of the Government’s thinking, please respondto the enquiry with your views before the 4th of April.Thank you in anticipation – we will keep you informed as to the eventualoutcome.Martin ShanahanPresident, EHSANZ and Editor AEHRSimon VilleImmediate past President, EHSANZFormer editor AEHRStephen MorganEditor AEHRJohn SingletonEditor AEHRPierre van der EngTreasurer EHSANZFormer Editor AEHR