ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR) codes 2020

The Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification codes for Field of Research or briefly ANZSRC FoR codes have been reviewed and there is a new release coming. If you have ever published a dataset or software, you were probably asked to browse through the available list online and choose any which were relevant. FoR codes are used by repositories to classify the dataset or code they list. Associated search tools will use them as keywords. While you can usually add other kinds of keywords to your record, FoR codes, by providing an official classification, are more likely to be used by someone searching for data associated to a specific field. Therefore, they will make your dataset or software more visible to others. To avoid confusion between the two systems the codes were completely redefined. Most of the codes useful to our community will still be found under the Earth Science division, but the division itself is now identified by the code “37” while in the previous standard from 2008 its code was “04”.

In the previous version, most Climate science related codes were grouped under Atmospheric Science. The new classification includes a new Climate Change Science group.

3702 Climate Change Science

Code	Subject
370201	Climate change processes
370202	Climatology
370203	Greenhouse gas inventories and fluxes
370299	Climate change science not elsewhere classified

Other relevant groups in the Earth Science divisions are:

3701 Atmospheric sciences

Code	Subject
370101	Adverse weather events
370102	Air pollution processes and air quality measurement
370103	Atmospheric aerosols
370104	Atmospheric composition, chemistry and processes
370105	Atmospheric dynamics
370106	Atmospheric radiation
370107	Cloud physics
370108	Meteorology
370109	Tropospheric and stratospheric physics
370199	Atmospheric sciences not elsewhere classified

3704 Geoinformatics

Code	Subject
370401	Computational modelling and simulation in earth sciences

3707 Hydrology

Code	Subject
370703	Groundwater hydrology
370704	Surface water hydrology

Oceanography 3708

Code	Subject
370801	Biological oceanography
370802	Chemical oceanography
370803	Physical oceanography
370899	Oceanography not elsewhere classified

3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscience

Code	Subject
37090	Palaeoclimatology

And under the Environmental Science division , identified by “41”

4101 Climate change impacts and adaptation

Code	Subject
410101	Carbon sequestration science
410102	Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation
410103	Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation

4106 Soil sciences

Code	Subject
410601	Land capability and soil productivity
410604	Soil chemistry and soil carbon sequestration (excl. carbon sequestration science)
410605	Soil physics
410699	Soil sciences not elsewhere classified

You can always refer to the official documentation if none of these apply to your study.