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Weighted HDR Completions per 10 Academic Staff FTE8.07.57.06.56.05.52000 2001 2002 2003 2004Relative to other Universities, the University recorded the fourth highest number nationally (4.30) of higher degreeby research completions per 10 academic staff FTE in 2004 (as shown in the following table). This figure issignificantly higher than the national average of 2.95.Higher Degree by Research Completions (a) per 10 Academic Staff FTE (b) ,Selected Universities (c) , 2002 to 20042002 2003 2004Institution Total Total/ Rank Total Total/ Rank Total Total/10 FTE10 FTE10 FTERankANU 236 5.88 1 253 5.92 1 260 5.81 1Melbourne 663 5.04 2 694 5.18 2 724 5.27 2Queensland 484 4.50 3 548 5.04 3 514 4.67 3Western Australia 253 3.76 5 268 3.91 6 302 4.30 4Sydney 517 3.68 7 550 3.95 5 597 4.26 5New South Wales 381 3.23 10 319 2.44 18 513 4.01 6Adelaide 226 3.71 6 242 4.01 4 220 3.66 7Monash 454 3.53 8 445 3.45 9 445 3.39 8Southern Cross 75 4.04 4 71 3.79 7 62 3.27 9RMIT 225 3.03 11 241 3.20 10 253 3.27 10Tasmania 134 3.22 9 152 3.68 8 127 3.11 11Murdoch 92 2.74 13 95 2.77 15 104 3.02 12Curtin 129 1.85 24 217 2.98 12 204 2.75 14Edith Cowan 73 1.62 29 80 1.78 27 84 1.89 27AUSTRALIA 5822 2.73 6314 2.93 6468 2.95(a) Excluding higher doctorate completions.(b) Average of past three years’ staff FTE for academic staff in academic organisational units with a teaching-and-research orteaching only appointment at level B or above (excluding casual staff FTE).(c) The 12 highest ranked universities in 2004 plus WA institutions.Indicator 2.3 Publication RatesThe numbers of refereed publications in reputable journals and other publications may be considered to be areflection of the research output of a university and the numbers of weighted publications per academic staff FTEgive an indication of research productivity. The figures in the following table show that the average number ofweighted publications per staff FTE at this University has increased by 10.7% from 1.58 in 2000 to 1.75 in 2004,which is considerably higher than the national average of 1.50 that has been recorded for 2004. However, itshould be noted that the figures relate to the publications reported on the 2000 to 2004 DEST Higher EducationResearch Data Collections and do not purport to cover the complete range of publications produced by theUniversity’s staff during that period.93
Selected Research Publications (a) by Type of Publication per Academic Staff FTE (b) ,UWA, 2000 to 2004Type of Publication 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004Authored Research 0.022 0.024 0.030 0.020 0.030Book Chapters 0.117 0.159 0.124 0.176 0.128Article in Scholarly Refereed Journal 1.151 1.104 1.127 1.223 1.184Full Written Paper—Refereed Proceedings 0.202 0.263 0.273 0.258 0.290Total 1.493 1.555 1.553 1.677 1.632UWA Weighted Total (c) 1.582 1.654 1.671 1.758 1.752National Weighted Total (c) 1.097 1.113 1.258 1.352 1.496(a)Research publications as reported on the 2001 to 2005 DEST Higher Education Research Data Collections.(b)Full-time equivalence of academic staff at lecturer level B or above, excluding casual appointments.(c)Applying the weights used by DEST to allocate the 2004 RIBG, RTS and IGS.Publications per Academic Staff FTE1.41.21.00.80.60.40.20.0Authored Research Book Chapters Article in ScholarlyRefereed JournalFull WrittenPaper—RefereedProceedings20002001200220032004Indicator 2.4 Research GrantsThe research funds allocated to an institution are an indication of its relative success in research, especiallyAustralian Competitive Grant funds. Australian Competitive Grants are allocated on the basis of competitive bidsfor research funds under specified schemes by bodies including the Australian Research Council, the NationalHealth and Medical Research Council, Primary Industry R&D Corporations, other Commonwealth departmentsand other non-Commonwealth schemes such as the Australian Kidney Foundation.The University obtained 7.2 per cent of the Australian Competitive Grant funds allocated to Australian highereducation institutions in 2004. This allocation was the nation’s third highest on a per staff FTE basis, and was sixthoverall. The following table shows Australian Competitive Grant research funds allocated to selected universitiesper full-time equivalent academic staff (of lecturer and above status, excluding casual staff) from 2002 to 2004.The table shows this University’s leading position in per FTE allocations.Overall, the University received 6.4 per cent of all research funding for 2004 (as reported on the 2005 DESTHigher Education Research Data Collection and presented on the table on the next page). This represents theseventh highest allocation of research funds overall.94
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