The CSIRO Priorities Method is a way to rank and display research priorities for publicly funded research. This paper describes the development and evolution of the method that was employed in CSIRO throughout the 1990s and, since that time, in several other research organisations in Asia and Europe. It comprises three elements: a framework, a process, and a results screen, and has been used for priority setting at a national, organisational, program and project level. Its key attributes are its simplicity, robustness, and adaptability. This paper fills a gap in the literature about this Method by summarising its development and use, and by providing online references to previously unavailable documents.

CSIRO 优先次序法是一种对公共资助的研究进行排名和显示研究重点的方法。本文描述了 CSIRO 在整个 1990 年代以及此后在亚洲和欧洲的其他几个研究机构中采用的方法的发展和演变。它由三个要素组成：框架、流程和结果筛选，并已用于国家、组织、计划和项目层面的优先级设定。它的关键属性是其简单性、健壮性和适应性。本文通过总结该方法的开发和使用，并提供以前无法获得的文档的在线参考资料，填补了有关该方法的文献空白。