A round was scheduled for 2023, but in September 2022 the ARC announced that this would be postponed as they were transitioning the ERA process to a more robust and data driven model.
[2] In 2009, two trials were conducted for the clusters "Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences" (PCE) and "Humanities and Creative Arts" (HCA), and reports have been published using this data.
The Field of Research codes are distributed into the following eight clusters: The following institutions are deemed eligible to submit data to the government as part of the ERA initiative:[citation needed] The ARC maintains a list of journals that are eligible for inclusion in the ERA.
The ARC initially stated that these journals would be ranked using the following "four tiers of quality rating":[7] After the publication of its draft rankings, ERA introduced a form aimed at all scholars who wished to put a journal forward for the list.
[8] The percentage distributions were not recalled and not adhered to in the final list which was released on 9 February 2010,[9] though the proportion of A* and A journals did not correlate directly with the performance of different disciplines.