ERA rating again

Comments on Luke Slattery “Absence of top-flight experts”, 1/02/2011, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/absence-of-top-flight-experts/story-e6frg6zo-1225997725270

Presumably, the methodology and standard used are also released with the ERA release itself, so people can examine how the rating was done and how it could be improved in future ratings.

One area of particular interests is whether how different the standard is from the standard for only advanced/industrialised countries. The latter should be more comparable given the income and wage levels are similar among this group of countries.

Poorer countries have difficulties in attracting top researchers, as reflected as the brain drain phenomenon.

PS: see also my earlier comments on Professor Margaret Sheil's article today.