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Welcome to Linda Butler’s website

Since 1999, Linda Butler has been head of the Research Evaluation and Policy Project, which was established in the Research School of Social Sciences in 1994.

Prior to that, she was a founding member of its predecessor, the Performance Indicators Project, set up by Professor Paul Bourke in 1988.

Linda is Australia’s leading expert in bibliometric analysis, and has undertaken detailed studies using the international journal literature to judge Australia’s standing in research, and to identify its institutional and disciplinary areas of strength and weakness. Her findings on the effects of using publication counts to determine the distribution of some research funding to universities has had significant public policy impact.

Linda’s expertise is widely sought in the current climate of increased interest in assessing the impact research, both in Australia and internationally. She chaired the Department of Education, Science and Training’s RQF Metrics Working Group, and continues to provide advice to the Department on the development of the RQF.

Linda has also served for a number of years on a National Health and Medical Research Council working group established by its Research Committee to devise measures of research impact and achievement (MORIA) that can be applied across its funding portfolio. She is on the editorial committee of Scientometrics and Research Evaluation, and has given a number of invited presentations at major international conferences, most recently in New Zealand, Taiwan and England.