Presentation For Perak 11 Sept 2009 Today

Research in an Impact Factor environment Khasiah Zakaria Senior Deputy Chief Librarian PTAR 1

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University’s ranking & indicators Scholarly research Indexed journals

Bibliometri c usage

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Content analysis

Citation analysis

SCOPUS 16,000

ISI 9,300 journals

Malaysia Performance in research UiTM Performa nce in research

Books Journal eBooks eJournal

Conferen ce

Conclusio ns & proposals

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International University’s ranking 1.Times Higher World University Rankings by Times Higher Education Supplement

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is the first to use peer review to establish a global pecking order. poll of 1,300 academics in 88 countries, using staffing levels and research citations.

2. Academic Ranking of World Universities by the Institute of Higher Education of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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3. Ranking of World Universities in the Web by InternetLab (Observatorio de Ciencia y Tecnologia en Internet).

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A collection of university rankings based on several "webometrics" indicators: size, visibility, popularity and number of rich files.

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Academic Ranking of World Universities by the Institute of Higher Education of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

1. Quality of education, given by the Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals. 2. 3. Quality of Faculty, measured by the Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals and the highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories. 4. 5. Research Output, measured through the Articles published in Nature and Science and the Articles in Science Citation Index expanded and Social Science Citation Index. 6. 7. Size of Institution, measured by the Academic performance with respect to the size of an institution. 4

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Asiaweek.com

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National University’s ranking APEX (Accelerated Program for Excellence ) 2007 Sistem Penarafan SETARA 

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APEX Criteria • Quality and reputation of the academic staff (internationally renowned scholars). • Research achievements (national and international centers of excellence, winning research grants, medals of achievement, leading graduate schools, publications, patents etc.). • Academic programs of choice and relevance (student choice and graduate employability). • Strong leadership and management (universities being led and managed by competent staff). • Strategic partnerships with industry and other stakeholders (collaborative research and programs). • Excellent infrastructure and state of the art facilities (campus, library, labs etc.). • Some degree of financial independence (sources of income and endowment). Source: Hassan Basri (2008) Country report - Malaysia, A Paper presented in Asia Pacific Sub-regional Preparatory Conference for the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education: Macau, September 2008

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SETARA

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Domain

1.Universiti berintensifkan penyelidikan

2.Universiti umum

3.Universiti khusus

Reputasi Staf Akademik

25%

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Kepilihan Pelajar

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Penyelidikan

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Program Akademik

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Sumber

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Pengurusan

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Source - http://www.mqa.gov.my/setaraPenerangan.cfm

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Research

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SETAR A VIABLE/ COMMERCIALIS ED

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USM

University Ranking

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Knowledge life span Meetings 1- 3 months

Encyclopedia 3-4 years

Books 3-4 years

Opinion papers 1-6 months Journals 3-4 years

Proceedings 6-12 months Annual reviews 6-12 months

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SCHOLARLY RESEARCH

SCHOLARSHIP

SCHOL IA (FOOTN OTE)

•All scholars write with references to the previous work •It is an acknowledgements to others •Because knowledge is a building block, not a single brick (Szarina, 2005) •Standing on the giant’ shoulders, so you can see further (Garfield, 1972)

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Research, write & publish

Utilized & recognized

High citation rate

Nobel Prize

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Overview of World Knowledge Production  1958  1977  1981  1987        2008 13

 29% US GNP - US (3.8 m)  OECD reported trend in all industrialized countries  Altbach’s study – US ,UK ,France, west Germany & Switzerland as the power house of knowledge  UK (1.1)  Japan(1.09 m),  Germany (1 m),  France (729,123)  Malaysia no 49 (21,034) (0.08%)  Singapore no.32(68,237) (2.0%)

160 countries 20% producer of the world knowledge are Developed countries

Bradford’s Law -journals

Lotka’s Law - authors

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Lotka’s Law In 1926, Alfred Lotka formulated his power law (known as Lotka's Law) describing the frequency of publication by authors in a given field. According to this bibliometric law of scientific productivity, only a very small percentage (~6%) of authors in a field will produce more than 10 articles while the majority (perhaps 60%) will have but a single article published.

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+-6% contributes (more than 10 articles) 80%

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Journal citations analyser Scielo: 361 - active peer- ISI-Thomson: 9,770 reviewed journals. ( http://www.scielo.org) 611 Periodicals 13.113 Conference 195.582 Articles 3.857.509 Citations Elsevier Science

PsycINFO: 2.216 - 98%

active peer-reviewed journals. active peer-reviewed journals. (http://scientific.thomson.com) (http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/ since 1900. about/covlist.ht)

Direct: Elsevier Scopus: 2,717 – active peer-reviewed 14,200 through licensing,

MEDLINE: 5.164 – active

peer-reviewed journals journals including 531 open access in (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/se ( 2006; (21.074) - active peer- rials/lji.html) http://www.sciencedirect.com/ reviewed journals Adding 606 new journals in ) uses Scopus. Includes accepted manuscripts. 2008 25000 journals & conference (“even Google scholar offers covered a version” (of citation ( tracking) Quint, 2006.) http://info.scopus.com/detail/what/ ) . Links to Scirus but, for quality, selects documents with 10 or more citations.

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Bibliometrics - Is a set of methods used to study or measure performance of scientific community - Citation analysis and content analysis are commonly used bibliometric methods - Is Research Performance Measurement (RPM) 16

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Citation analysis Is the investigation of the frequency, patterns and graphs of citations in articles and books. It uses citations in scholarly works to establish links to other works or other researchers. 

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Journal Impact Factors

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Calculation of the impact factor for 2009

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Why use high impact journals? 1.

Scholars seeking publishing opportunities have to decide which journals are most likely to enhance the visibility and impact of their research. Although the premier journals of a discipline are usually well established, there is generally less consensus about the other journals. 2. Promotion/ tenure decisions in research-oriented universities depend almost exclusively on publications in well respected journals, and salary levels, author reputation, and the ability to get research grants are closely tied to the number of publications in prestigious journals. Journal rankings are particularly important when an individual's research is evaluated by people who are not specialists in the discipline and who thus have to rely on a journal’s reputation as a proxy for article and research quality. 

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Why use high impact journals?

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Journals ranking efforts

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No. of journals published Ulrich’s Universe = all active titles in Ulrich’s (>230,000) 

• Ulrich’s Core = all academic/scholarly, major consumer and trade (>58,500)

•ISI WOS Thomson index– 10,000 ++

•Scopus index– 15,000++

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Glossaries Refereed materials are publications reviewed by "expert readers" or referees

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• The term "scholarly materials“ is often used to describe refereed materials,

Non-Refereed Materials Non-refereed materials such as Trade Journals or Magazines

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The Thomson Scientific (ISI) impact factor

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Scopus Largest Abstract And Citation Database Of Research Literature And Quality Web Sources. 

Updated Daily 1. Over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers 2. over 1200 Open Access journals 3. 520 conference proceedings 4. 650 trade publications 5. 315 book series 6. 36 million records 7. Results from 431 million scientific web pages 8. 23 million patent records from 5 patent offices 9. "Articles-in-Press" from over 3,000 journals 10. Seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources 11. Overview of search results and refine them to the most relevant hits 12. Alerts on new articles matching your search query, or by favorite author 

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Scopus

Web of Science

Coverage

1992-date

1966-date (abstracts)

# of Journals Indexed

8700

14,000

# of Citations 36.1 million

27 million

Update Schedule

Weekly

Updated daily

Subjects covered

Life sciences, clinical medicine, animal & plant biology, biotechnology, agriculture, environmental sciences, physics, chemistry, earth sciences, mathematics, engineering, technology, computer science

5900 titles in life and health sciences; chemistry, physics, math, engineering, social sciences, psychology, economics, biological, agricultural, environmental, general sciences

Geographic coverage

80 countries

60% of titles are from countries other than USA

Indexing

Author defined keywords and KeyWordsPlus

EMTREE, MESH and others

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Why use Scopus? • Find out who is citing you, and how many citations an article or an author has received. • Analyze citations for a particular journal issue, volume or year. • Use this information to complete grant or other applications quickly and easily. • Use the refine results overview to quickly see the main journals, disciplines and authors that publish in your area of interest. • Uncover important and relevant articles that you may miss. • Check out the work and citations of other authors. • Click on the cited by and reference links to track research trends and make connections. You can do this within or across disciplines you are interested in.

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What does Scopus cover?

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JCR Basic Journal Standards Selection

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Malaysian Journals indexed in ISI –WOS 1. Journal of Tropical Forest Science - FRIM 2. Bulletin of Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society - USM 3. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science - UM 4. Sains Malaysiana - UKM 

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Malaysian Journals di indeks oleh SCOPUS

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IPTA Malaysia & regional

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University

Citations(A)

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Mahidol U

16,636

4,509

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Chula. U

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4,303

2.74

UM

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2,781

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USM UPM UKM MMU

4026 2651 2291 1121

2,388 1,803 1,659 1,059

1.68 1.47 1.38 1.058

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705

1.702

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UiTM Document type in SCOPUS        

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Article (403) Conference Paper (263) Article in Press (18) Review (12) Editorial (3) Erratum (2) Short Survey (2) Note (1)

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UiTM Articles cited by Scopus Findings

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Published in proceedings/conference

213(30.53%)

Year published

2003 - 2007

No of journals with IF

68 (9.65%)

Highest Journal IF

4.756

Lowest Journal IF Malaysian Journals

0.377 5 (0.71%)

Total articles cited

704

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Tin, W.W., Lai, W.C., Shyan, B.K., Heng, P.W.S.

Aging and microwave effects on Journal of Controlled Release, alginate/chitosan matrices (2005) 104 (3), pp. 461-475.Cited 9 times.

Zaliha, O., Chong, C.L., Crystallization properties of palm oil Food Chemistry, 86 (2), pp. 245Cheow, C.S., Norizzah, by dry fractionation (2004) 250. Cited 7 times. A.R., Kellens, M.J.

Morita, H., Iizuka, T., Dichotomins J and K, vasodilator Choo, C.-Y., Chan, K.- cyclic peptides from Stellaria L., Itokawa, H., Takeya, dichotoma (2005) K.

Raha, A.R., Varma, N.R.S., Yusoff, K., Ross, E., Foo, H.L.

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Journal of Natural Products, 68 (11), pp. 1686-1688. Cited 6 times.

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Cell surface display system for Applied Microbiology and 2.475 Lactococcus lactis: A novel Biotechnology, 68 (1), pp. 75-81. development for oral vaccine (2005) Cited 5 times.

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Ahmad, R., Shaari, K., Lajis, N.Hj., Hamzah, A.S., Ismail, N.H., Kitajima, M.

Anthraquinones from Hedyotis capitellata (2005)

Mohamad, A.A., Mohamed, N.S., Yahya, M.Z.A., Othman, R., Ramesh, S., Alias, Y., Arof, A.K.

Salleh, F.M., Yahya, A.K., Imad, H., AbdShukor, R.

Ionic conductivity studies of poly(vinyl alcohol) alkaline solid polymer electrolyte and its use in nickel-zinc cells (2003)

Effects of Ag, Ag2O and AgNO3 addition on the superconducting properties of Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 (2003)

Phytochemistry, 66 (10), pp. 1141- 2.322 1147. Cited 3 times.

Solid State Ionics, 156 (1-2), pp. 171-177. Cited 23 times.

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Materials Science and Engineering 1.330 B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology, 98 (1), pp. 17-20.

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Cited (A)

Articles IF (B) A/B

Years writing since

Norizzah, A. R.(A.Science) 3.052

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Hamzah, Ahmad Sazali

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Cheow, Chong Seng

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Ross, E.

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Yahya, M. Z A

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Wong, Tin Wui (Pharmacy) 4.756

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Hassan, Zai R(Physics)

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Yahya, Ahmad Kamal

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Anuar, Nor Khaizan

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Awang, Zaiki

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MyAIS – TOP 20 MALAYSIAN JOURNALS CITED 1 Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 171 2 Malaysian Journal of Science 144 3 Malaysian Journal of Computer Science 90 4 Sains Malaysiana 54 5 Jurnal Fizik Malaysia 36 6 Medical Journal of Malaysia 34 7 Malaysian Journal of Nutrition 25 8 Malaysian Journal of Analytical Sciences 24 9 Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences 24 10 Malaysian Journal of Pathology 21 11 Kekal Abadi 14 12 Akademika 9 13 Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society 6 14 Malaysian Family Physician 6 15 GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 5 16 Malaysian Online Journal of Instructional Technology 5 17 International Medical Journal 3 18 Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia 3 19 Jurnal Sains Nuklear Malaysia 2 20 Elektrika Journal of Electrical Engineering 1

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MyAIS – TOP 20 MALAYSIAN AUTHORS CITED

1 Zainab A.N. UM 22730 2 Abrizah Abdullah UM 11116 3 Mashkuri Yaacob Universiti Tenaga Nasional 9468 4 Shaharir bin Mohamad Zain ASASI 7976 5 Edzan N.N. UM 6383 6 Fazilah M.H. KUIAM 5845 7 Zafir M.M. KUIAM 5845 8 Lee, Su Kim UKM 4285 9 Syahrul N. Junaini UMS 4032 10 Ismail M.N. UKM 3740 11 Halimatun Halaliah bt Mokhtar UPM 3346 12 Mohd Yusoff bin Ahmad 3346 13 Nordin bin Kardi UUM 3346 14 Shamsudin bin Hussin 3346 15 Sidek bin Mohd Noah 3346 16 Ramesh, S. UNITEN 3296 17 Masoud A. UM 3113 18 Saad Mekhilef UM 3113 19 Zawiah H. UKM 2950 40

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Guide to increase citation in ISI dan Scopus 1. Increase the no. of research send to journals indexed by Scopus and ISI WOS 2. List all indexed journals or high impact journals on the PTAR portal 3. List all articles by UiTM researchers indexed by Scopus and ISI 4. The Chief Editor of UiTM Journals must work it out so that 1.Their journals are indexed by Scopus and ISI 2.List of articles, keywords and abstract must be in English 3.Articels should use the correct affiliations , such as Universiti Teknologi MARA 4.Those who are studying abroad should be encourage to use Universiti Teknologi MARA – as their affiliation 41

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Information Dissemination Strategies 

1. Dissemination of information regarding indexed journals by Scopus and ISI 2. Report all news on information regarding indexed journals by UiTM and IPTAS/S 3. More workshop on and about bibliometric IF, Scopus and ISI

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Guide to increase citation in ISI dan Scopus Report on current journal publish by UiTM

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1.Report on journals’ name , publisher, HIndex, High Impact , citations 2.Monitor UiTM journals – active/non active. 3.More information regarding quality of research and other IPTA/S journals

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UKM Guide to increase citation in ISI dan Scopus

UKM Journals policy - indexing, listings, citations University Supports 2 journals : Sains Malaysiana dan Akademika. 

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Sains Malaysiana indexed by ISI Web of Science. UKM help publish and the Chief Editor of the journal is equivalent to Deputy Dean – less teaching loads, more focus 44

UKM Guide to increase citation in ISI / Scopus

• Translation by ITNM – for all articles cited by ISI/Scopus 

• Editing cost is supported by UKM

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UKM Guide to increase citation in ISI / Scopus 

Affiliation entry

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1.Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - 2766 2.National University of Malaysia - 569 3.Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -193 4.University Kebangsaan Malaysia – 467 5.Universiti Kebangsaan – 2773 6.University Kebangsaan - 467  

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(Source SCOPUS: accessed 21 July 2008 using field affiliation)

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UKM Guide to increase citation in ISI / Scopus

Author entry

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Author

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Taib, Mohd Nasir (FKE)

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Taib, M. N. Taib, Mohd N. Taib, Mohd 

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No. of UiTM citations by subject in SCOPUS • Engineering (249) • Materials Science (93) • Physics and Astronomy (82) • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (76) • Computer Science (72) Chemistry (60) • Agricultural and Biological Sciences (57) • Medicine (53) • Chemical 48 Engineering (48)

• Social Sciences (44) • Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (44) • Mathematics (35) • Energy (32) • Environmental Science (29) • Business, Management and Accounting (28) 48

No. of UiTM’s articles in SCOPUS • 2005 Asian Conference on Sensors and the International Conference on New Techniques in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research Proceedings (14) • Ionics (13) • Biomedical Research (13) • Scored 2006 Proceedings of 2006 4th Student Conference on Research and Development Towards Enhancing Research Excellence in the Region (13) • 2007 Asia Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics Proceedings Apace2007 (13) 49

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (12) Materials Science Forum (12) 2004 RF and Microwave Conference Rfm 2004 Proceedings (11) 2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development Scored (10) Proceedings of the International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (10) IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference Proceedings TENCON (9) 2006 International RF and Microwave Conference Rfm Proceedings (9) Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online (8) 49

Five Basic Journal Selection Standards

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Five Basic Journal Selection Standards 2.English is the universal language of science at this time 3.Editorial Content 

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an essential core of scientific literature forms the basis for all scholarly disciplines.

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Five Basic Journal Selection Standards 4. International Diversity

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International Diversity among the contributing authors and the journal’s editors and Editorial Advisory Board members.

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5.Citation Analysis

Citation analyses takes place on at least two levels.

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citations to the journal itself, as expressed by Impact Factor and/or total citations received. citation record of the contributing authors, a useful study in evaluating new journals where a citation history at the journal level does not yet exist.

• ISI captures all cited references from 9,300 journals covered • Self-citation rates are also taken into consideration. The self-cited rate relates a journal’s self-citations to the number of times it is cited by all journals, including itself. For example, journal X was cited 15,000 times by all journals, including the 2,000 times it cited itself. Its self-cited rate is 2/15 or 13.3%. (should not more than 20%) • •

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Weight of a publication 

Journal rankings often are used to evaluate the quality of your research. All things considered, the following weights could be used: 

1.1 = an article in a good journal 2.0.5 - 1 = a whole book, maybe 2 if it is very popular. 3.0.1 = a chapter in a book someone else edited.

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Weight of coauthored articles

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The standards of journals indexed by ISI Web of Science • Impact factor Judges prestige and influence by measuring the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period. • Immediacy index Indicates the speed with which citations of a specific journal appear in the published literature, and helps to identify journals in emerging areas of research. • Timeliness A regular release schedule indicates a healthy backlog of manuscripts and the ongoing viability and reliability of a publication. • International editorial The availability of informative titles and abstracts, complete list of names • 57

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• Conventions standard bibliographic information for all cited references, and full author addresses eases retrievability of source articles. • Peer review This process indicates high standards and superior quality of research. • Editorial content Each journal must enrich the body of knowledge in its field. • International Includes journals with international coverage , • Geographic representation influential regional publications.

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IF your acceptance rate lower than others You may need to submit more papers.

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Volume also increases the acceptance rate because of learning by doing.

Identify the cause and act accordingly.

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There might be biases against you based on race, sex, nationality, or schooling.

You may not be able to eliminate existing biases, but you can avoid them.

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General guidelines for researchers

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General guidelines for researchers(4) 4. Maintain a stock of papers under review constantly • If the acceptance rate of the top-ranking jounals is 15%, one needs about 7 papers under review at all times to have one paper accepted per year at the targeted journals. • If your goal is to get 10 papers accepted in the first 5 years of your career, you need about a dozen papers under review at all times. • Half a dozen papers should be under review at all times for untenured authors. This does not mean that you should write 7 new62 62 papers each year. 

General guidelines for researchers(5) 5. Don't put two good ideas in one paper

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Separate them into two papers. As the paper's length increases beyond 15 pages, the chance of acceptance shrinks geometrically. When a topic is appropriately split into two papers, the probability of getting at least one of them accepted more than doubles. You also will get a paper accepted sooner. If x = original length, and p = probability of acceptance, then 

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General guidelines for researchers(7) 7. Write clearly

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• The main assumptions and results should be explained clearly. • Define every symbol when it is first introduced. Otherwise, the referees will be frustrated, and you won't get a favorable report. • If many symbols are introduced to present your model, it is a good idea to define all symbols together and display them in one place so that the referees would not waste time hunting for them. • Clearly state the contributions of the paper, relative to the literature, in the concluding remarks. 

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The national bibliometric study conducted from June 2003 to April 2004.

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Science and Technology Knowledge Productivity in Malaysia Bibliometric Study 2003

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Contributions by IPTs UM (4,216) USM (2,790) UPM (2,489) UKM (1,692) UTM (511) zzzzz 

Science and Technology Knowledge Productivity in 75 Malaysia Bibliometric Study 2003

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Individual scientist Fun Hoong Kun (USM) – 602 papers Ng Seik Weng (UM) - 283 papers Ibrahim Abdul Razak (USM) -148 papers 

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Science and Technology Knowledge Productivity in Malaysia Bibliometric Study 2003

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UiTM Field of Research Physical chemistry highest 1,369 (10.16%) 

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Science and Technology Knowledge Productivity in Malaysia Bibliometric Study 2003

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Thanks for listening! Wassalam

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