HERDC: E1 - Conference Paper

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Publication weighting: 1 point
Coversheet: E1 - Conference Paper HERDC Coversheet (updated January 2008).

The following criteria must be satisfied for a conference paper to be accepted for the HERDC. The information below is based on the 2008 HERDC Specifications for the collection of 2007 data.

The conference paper should also meet the General Publication Requirement for inclusion in the 2008 HERDC.

Conference papers must

1. be published or available in 2007.
   Please note: conference papers that appear only in a volume handed out to conference participants are unlikely to meet the HERDC criteria.
2. meet the HERDC Definition of Research
3. be original material
   A conference paper can only be submitted to the HERDC once regardless of how many conferences the paper is presented at, unless it contains a substantial amount of new material.
4. be published in some format in full
5. be peer-reviewed
6. be presented at conferences, workshops or seminars of national or international significance
7. at least one of the authors must be affiliated with QUT (see section 9.4 - Author Affiliation)

Keynote addresses and invited papers may be included where all other papers for the conference are peer reviewed. HEPs must retain in verification material evidence of the keynote status of the address (eg. contents page) and of other contributions to the conference being peer reviewed (eg. a statement in the introduction to proceedings indicating this).

The types of conference publications that are unlikely to meet the criteria include papers that appear only in a volume handed out to conference participants.

How the weighting works

Each conference paper is worth 1 point, however this is divided equally between the number of authors. If a conference paper has 3 authors, all QUT staff or students, then each author gets 0.333 author points and QUT gets 1 point. If a conference paper has 4 authors, 2 QUT staff or students and 2 external authors, each author gets 0.25 author points and QUT gets 0.5 points.

The weighting is automatically calculated on the RM Database and appears on all publication reports.

Further information

• FAQs - Frequently asked questions (updated December 2007)
• E1 - Conference Paper HERDC Coversheet
• E1 - Conference Paper Verification Material Information
• General Coversheet Guidelines
• HERDC Additional Authors Sheet
• Statement of QUT Affliation
• HERDC Publications - Instructions for Authors
• HERDC Publications - Instructions for Administrators