(Australia) Research assessment exercises are necessary — but we need to learn to do them better – Nature (Editorial | May 2023)
Like many countries, Australia’s system for judging the quality of research has incentivised quantity rather than quality and has inadvertently encouraged questionable research behaviour. The recently commenced ERA review process provides a marvellous opportunity to reset the focus on research culture, behaviour that contributes to excellent practice and a focus upon and less upon ‘sausage factory’ type activity.