Use of the ERIH "initial Lists"

The ERIH lists will help to identify excellence in Humanities scholarship and should prove useful for the aggregate benchmarking of national research systems, for example, in determining the international standing of the research activity carried out in a given field in a particular country. 

As they stand, the lists are not a bibliometric tool for the evaluation of individual researchers. The distinction between the categories A, B and C is to be understood as being not primarily qualitative and the categorisation is determined by issues such as scope and audience as explained in the ERIH Guidelines. Thus, such categorizations of journals do not prejudge the scientific quality of individual articles that appear in those journals.  

The ERIH Steering Committee and the Expert Panels advise against using the lists as a basis for assessments of individual candidates, be it for positions, promotions, research grant awards etc.

ERIH "initial Lists" and related documents

Please read carefully the ERIH Summary guidelines used by ESF Member Organisations and Expert Panels in order to fully understand the categorisation criteria. In particular, please be aware that the distinction between the categories A, B and C is not primarily qualitative; rather, the categorisation also factors in issues such as scope and audience as explained in the guidelines. Please note that the same journal may occur on several lists and may be given a different categorisation depending on its importance in the discipline.

Explanation of terms:

Scope notes: contain links to documents that set out the disciplinary field  covered by the panel
Initial lists: the 14 lists published to date
Statistics: distribution of language of publication and place of publication
Integrated: with integrated information about language of publication and place of publication