ANZSRC FoR Codes 2020 edition

The Australian Research Council (well, technically the Australian Bureau of Statistics and their NZ counterparts) have updated the Field of Research codes which Aussie/NZ academics use to classify their work.¹

I was trying to browse these new codes recently, and had a hard time trying to find the actual classification scheme (codes, hierarchy & code names). The official page seems to be this one, but the data is only available on sheet 3 of an excel spreadsheet, which is just a bummer when all you want to do is ctrl+F your way around an HTML table in your web browser.

So, I’ve copied the relevant part of that spreadsheet into a regular-ol’ webpage here for your browsing pleasure.²

2020 ANZRC Field of Research (FoR) Codes#

FoR Code	Description
300101	Agricultural biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors)
300102	Agricultural marine biotechnology
300103	Agricultural molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins
300104	Genetically modified animals
300105	Genetically modified field crops and pasture
300106	Genetically modified horticulture plants
300107	Genetically modified trees
300108	Livestock cloning
300109	Non-genetically modified uses of biotechnology
300110	Transgenesis
300199	Agricultural biotechnology not elsewhere classified
300301	Animal growth and development
300302	Animal management
300303	Animal nutrition
300304	Animal protection (incl. pests and pathogens)
300305	Animal reproduction and breeding
300306	Animal welfare
300307	Environmental studies in animal production
300399	Animal production not elsewhere classified
300401	Agrochemicals and biocides (incl. application)
300402	Agro-ecosystem function and prediction
300403	Agronomy
300404	Crop and pasture biochemistry and physiology
300405	Crop and pasture biomass and bioproducts
300406	Crop and pasture improvement (incl. selection and breeding)
300407	Crop and pasture nutrition
300408	Crop and pasture post harvest technologies (incl. transportation and storage)
300409	"Crop and pasture protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)"
300410	Crop and pasture waste water use
300411	Fertilisers (incl. application)
300412	Organic and low chemical input crop production
300413	Pollination biology and systems
300499	Crop and pasture production not elsewhere classified
300501	Aquaculture
300502	Aquaculture and fisheries stock assessment
300503	Fish pests and diseases
300504	Fish physiology and genetics
300505	Fisheries management
300506	Post-harvest fisheries technologies (incl. transportation)
300599	Fisheries sciences not elsewhere classified
300601	Beverage chemistry and beverage sensory science
300602	Food chemistry and food sensory science
300603	Food nutritional balance
300604	"Food packaging, preservation and processing"
300605	"Food safety, traceability, certification and authenticity"
300606	Food sustainability
300607	Food technology
300699	Food sciences not elsewhere classified
300701	Agroforestry
300702	Forest biodiversity
300703	Forest ecosystems
300704	Forest health and pathology
300705	Forestry biomass and bioproducts
300706	Forestry fire management
300707	Forestry management and environment
300708	Forestry product quality assessment
300709	Tree improvement (incl. selection and breeding)
300710	Tree nutrition and physiology
300711	Wood fibre processing
300712	Wood processing
300799	Forestry sciences not elsewhere classified
300801	Field organic and low chemical input horticulture
300802	Horticultural crop growth and development
300803	Horticultural crop improvement (incl. selection and breeding)
300804	"Horticultural crop protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)"
300805	Oenology and viticulture
300806	Post harvest horticultural technologies (incl. transportation and storage)
300899	Horticultural production not elsewhere classified
300901	Veterinary anaesthesiology and intensive care
300902	Veterinary anatomy and physiology
300903	Veterinary bacteriology
300904	Veterinary diagnosis and diagnostics
300905	Veterinary epidemiology
300906	Veterinary immunology
300907	Veterinary medicine (excl. urology)
300908	Veterinary mycology
300909	Veterinary parasitology
300910	Veterinary pathology
300911	Veterinary pharmacology
300912	Veterinary surgery
300913	Veterinary urology
300914	Veterinary virology
300999	Veterinary sciences not elsewhere classified
350301	Business analytics
350302	"Business information management (incl. records, knowledge and intelligence)"
350303	Business information systems
350304	Business systems in context
350305	Forensic intelligence
350306	Forensic science and management
350307	Technology management
350399	Business systems in context not elsewhere classified
350401	Food and hospitality services
350402	Hospitality management
350403	Real estate and valuation services
350404	Retail
350405	Sport and leisure management
350499	Commercial services not elsewhere classified
350501	Business and labour history
350502	Employment equity and diversity
350503	Human resources management
350504	Industrial and employee relations
350505	Occupational and workplace health and safety
350506	Workforce planning
350507	Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life
350599	Human resources and industrial relations not elsewhere classified
350601	Consumer behaviour
350602	Consumer-oriented product or service development
350603	Industrial marketing
350604	Marketing communications
350605	Marketing management (incl. strategy and customer relations)
350606	Marketing research methodology
350607	Marketing technology
350608	Marketing theory
350609	Not-for-profit marketing
350610	Pricing (incl. consumer value estimation)
350611	Service marketing
350612	Social marketing
350699	Marketing not elsewhere classified
350801	Impacts of tourism
350802	Tourism forecasting
350803	Tourism management
350804	Tourism marketing
350805	Tourism resource appraisal
350806	Tourist behaviour and visitor experience
350899	Tourism not elsewhere classified
430101	Archaeological science
430102	"Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas"
430103	Archaeology of Australia (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)
430104	"Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant"
430105	Archaeology of New Zealand (excl. Māori)
430106	Digital archaeology
430107	Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology)
430108	Maritime archaeology
430199	Archaeology not elsewhere classified
430301	Asian history
430302	Australian history
430303	Biography
430304	British history
430305	Classical Greek and Roman history
430306	Digital history
430307	Environmental history
430308	"European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)"
430309	Gender history
430310	Global and world history
430311	Historical studies of crime
430312	Histories of race
430313	"History of empires, imperialism and colonialism"
430314	History of religion
430315	History of the pacific
430316	International history
430317	Latin and South American history
430318	Middle Eastern and North African history
430319	Migration history
430320	New Zealand history
430321	North American history
430322	Sub-Saharan African history
430323	Transnational history
430399	Historical studies not elsewhere classified
470101	Communication studies
470102	Communication technology and digital media studies
470103	Environmental communication
470104	International and development communication
470105	Journalism studies
470106	Media industry studies
470107	Media studies
470108	"Organisational, interpersonal and intercultural communication"
470199	Communication and media studies not elsewhere classified
470201	Arts and cultural policy
470202	Asian cultural studies
470203	Consumption and everyday life
470204	Cultural and creative industries
470205	"Cultural studies of agriculture, food and wine"
470206	Cultural studies of nation and region
470207	Cultural theory
470208	"Culture, representation and identity"
470209	Environment and culture
470210	Globalisation and culture
470211	Migrant cultural studies
470212	"Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies"
470213	Postcolonial studies
470214	Screen and media culture
470299	Cultural studies not elsewhere classified
470301	African languages
470302	Central and Eastern European languages (incl. Russian)
470303	Chinese languages
470304	Comparative language studies
470305	Early English languages
470306	English as a second language
470307	English language
470308	French language
470309	German language
470310	Iberian languages
470311	Indian languages
470312	Indonesian languages
470313	Italian language
470314	Japanese language
470315	Korean language
470316	Latin and classical Greek languages
470317	Middle Eastern languages
470318	Other Asian languages (excl. South-East Asian)
470319	Other European languages
470320	South-East Asian languages (excl. Indonesian)
470321	Translation and interpretation studies
470399	Language studies not elsewhere classified
470401	Applied linguistics and educational linguistics
470402	Child language acquisition
470403	Computational linguistics
470404	Corpus linguistics
470405	Discourse and pragmatics
470406	"Historical, comparative and typological linguistics"
470407	Language documentation and description
470408	Lexicography and semantics
470409	"Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax)"
470410	Phonetics and speech science
470411	Sociolinguistics
470499	Linguistics not elsewhere classified
470501	African literature
470502	Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature)
470503	Book history
470504	British and Irish literature
470505	Central and Eastern European literature (incl. Russian)
470506	Children's literature
470507	Comparative and transnational literature
470508	Digital literature
470509	Ecocriticism
470510	Indian literature
470511	Indonesian literature
470512	Korean literature
470513	Latin and classical Greek literature
470514	Literary theory
470515	Literature in Chinese
470516	Literature in French
470517	Literature in German
470518	Literature in Italian
470519	Literature in Japanese
470520	Literature in Spanish and Portuguese
470521	Middle Eastern literature
470522	New Zealand literature (excl. Māori literature)
470523	North American literature
470524	Other Asian literature (excl. South-East Asian)
470525	Other European literature
470526	Other literatures in English
470527	Popular and genre literature
470528	Print culture
470529	South-East Asian literature (excl. Indonesian)
470530	Stylistics and textual analysis
470531	Young adult literature
470599	Literary studies not elsewhere classified

Footnotes#

1. I’m not the first interdisciplinary academic to complain about these types of classifications, and I’m sure I won’t be the last, but that’s not what this post is about. ↩

2. Hopefully this is ok—the real data is © ABS and you should always go there for the canonical version. ABS people, if I’ve done something naughty with this publicly-available data then please let me know and I’ll make it right. ↩

@online{swift2021anzsrcForCodes2020Edition,
  author = {Ben Swift},
  title = {ANZSRC FoR Codes 2020 edition},
  url = {https://benswift.me/blog/2021/03/18/anzsrc-for-codes-2020-edition/},
  year = {2021},
  month = {03},
  note = {AT-URI: at://did:plc:tevykrhi4kibtsipzci76d76/site.standard.document/2021-03-18-anzsrc-for-codes-2020-edition},
}