Professor Margaret Sheil, CEO of the Australian Research Council, has announced Elsevier's SciVerse Scopus as the citation provider for ERA 2012, in a press release today.

Scopus provided the citation information for the 2009 ERA trial and the first full ERA exercise in 2010, which was the first ever comprehensive assessment of the research effort of Australia's universities.

"ERA is a world-class research evaluation initiative based on a combination of expert review and indicators of research excellence," said Professor Sheil.

"As citation analysis is one of the indicators used in ERA, it is crucial to appoint a suitable citation provider. Citation analysis is a widely recognised bibliometric tool for assessing the quality of scholarly research."