If you are compiling a list of problems and injustices relating to RAE 2008, may I offer the following: I have a paper in the January 2001 issue of a journal that is ineligible for entry because it was published online by the journal on November 29, 2000. The paper wasn't eligible for the previous RAE because it was published in 2001 ...
Jane Duckett, Department of politics, Glasgow University.