Pusat Sitasi Malaysia 03-88706812 mcc@mohe.gov.my http://mycc.my03-88706509

ZURAIDAH ABD MANAF, PhDMalaysia Citation Center (Head)

SCHOLARS – create scientific knowledge, evaluate and share the knowledge with peers and public

through various medium. The most commonly used medium is through

scholarly journals

SCHOLARLY JOURNALS – a periodic publications contain articles written by scholars or professionals who are

experts in their fields. It is a collection of articles that is

published regularly throughout the year. The journal articles are written

by experts, for experts.

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION – a system intended to disseminate

research findings/new knowledge in a timely manner; encourage participation in the scholarly

conversation; guarantee scholar integrity and quality

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39 • Starting of Printing

Revolution with Gutenberg invention of mechanical type printing

• It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation and the Scientific Revolution

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80 • Founding of the

House of Elzevir - a Dutch family publishing house

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• Henry Oldenburg –editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - the first true scholarly journal

• He began the practice of sending submitted manuscripts to experts who could judge their quality before publication –

• The beginning of modern scientific journal and the practice of peer review.

They come up with what they believe are unique hypotheses, base their

work on robust data and use an appropriate

research methodology.

As they write up their findings, they aim to

provide theoretical insight, and share theoretical and

practical implications about their work.

Finally, they submit the manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

Scholars strive to do high-quality research that will advance science…

Writing for academic journals is a highly competitive activity, and it’s important to understand that there could be several reasons behind a rejection.

• Carefully re-reading the manuscript at different times to identify the most common problems and shortcomings in the manuscript

• Share the manuscripts with colleagues and request their feedback. Highlight any sections that you would like reviewers to be absolutely clear on.

Do not rush submitting your article for publication.

• Should not submit the research work to two or more journals at the same time.

• Research ethics and policies of all scholarly journals suggest that authors should submit a manuscript to only one journal at a time to avoid copyright problems for the author, the university and the journals involved.

Select an appropriate publication outlet.

• Read the aims and scope of the journals

• Download the author guidelines and ensure the manuscript conforms to them.

Read the aims and scope and author guidelines of your target journal carefully.

• The title and abstract are important components of a ~ the first elements a journal editor sees

• It should summarize the main theme of the article and reflect its contribution to the theory.

• The abstract should be crafted carefully and encompass the aim and scope of the study; the key problem to be addressed and theory; the method used; the data set; key findings; limitations; and implications for theory and practice.

Make a good first impression with your title and abstract.

• The key characteristic of scientific writing is clarity. It is highly advisable to have a professional editing firm copy-edit your manuscript.

• Between 30 percent and 50 percent of articles submitted to high impact journals are rejected before they even reach the peer-review stage, and one of the top reasons for rejection is poor language.

Have a professional editing firm copy-edit (not just proofread)

• Imperative to address all the comments received from the reviewers and avoid oversights

• Resubmission of the revised manuscript must happen by the deadline provided by the journal

Address reviewer comments very carefully.

Author

Submission

Editorial Processing

Blind (Double or

Single) Review

Editorial Decision

Revise, Reject, or

Publish

• Editorial Screening…

• Does the topic fit the scope & aim of journal?

• Some papers are rejected here, called “desk rejection”…

MANUSCRIPT SUBMITTED

• 2 - 4 experts reviewer paper & provide feedback for author(s) and Editor…

PEER REVIEW

• Editor evaluates manuscript and the peer reviews…

EDITORIAL REVIEW

• Accept

• Accepted with contingencies

• Revise

• Reject

EDITORIAL DECISION • Author(s) may

revise & re-submit if asked by the Editor

• Final copyediting…

TO PUBLISH:

YES OR NO?

Peer review is the evaluation of scientific paper for competence, significance and originality by qualified experts

• Assessment of quality of research

• Did they conduct the correct experiment

• Use appropriate techniques/technologies, controls, models

• Is this research novel to the field

• Validity of results

• Did the authors over interpret

• Suggestion for improvement

• Additional experiments

• Removal of data (for clarity)

• Grammatical/stylistic

• Appropriateness

• Level of knowledge

• Context

Purpose:

ACCEPT AS IT IS

• Indicates the manuscript can be published without any corrections or revisions.

• Rarely, if ever, the first decision rendered.

ACCEPT WITH MINOR REVISIONS

• Indicates the manuscript can be published with small corrections.

• Sometimes this is an editor-only decision; a peer reviewer would select “revise” in this case.

REVISE & RE-REVIEW

• Indicates the manuscript needs re-writing or clarification.

• Indicates you would like to review the manuscript after revisions.

REVISE & DO NOT RE-REVIEW

• Indicates the manuscript needs re-writing or clarification.

• Indicates the manuscript may only need minor revisions to be published or that you are unable/unwilling to review again.

REJECT

• Indicates the manuscript will not be considered for publication.

• Often, editors will include peer review notes to strengthen the manuscript for-re-submission at another journal.

Communicate new knowledge

Increase the impact and visibility of research

Establish/build your reputation

Register research findings, their timing & the person(s) responsible

Preserve a record of the findings for the long term

CREATION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE

“A paper is an organized description of hypotheses, data and conclusions, intended to instruct the reader. If your research does not generate papers, it might just as well not have it done”

(Whitesides, G. Adv. Mater., 2004, 16, 1375)

• 28,100 active indexed scholarly peer-reviewed journals, published >< 2.5 million articles a year

28,100

• The number of articles published each year and the number of journals have both growth steadily for over 2 centuries by about 3% to 3.5% per year

3-3.5%• Due to the huge

amount of journals available, making it visible is vitally important

Visibility

In 2016, STM (International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) reported that:

Why Need to be Visible?

Disseminate new knowledge

Increase impact and visibility of the research

Establish researcher’s reputation

Be visible or vanish!!!

INCREASE CITATION COUNT

INCREASE AUTHOR’S H-INDEX

INCREASE JOURNAL’S IMPACT FACTORS

INCREASE THE PERFORMANCE OF SCHOLARLY OUTPUTS

High visibility will lead toward:

Content being referred to and cited more frequently

Increased brand familiarity that will leads to increased author submissions

The higher the number of submissions, the better the choice of what to be included in the journal ~ raise the quality of the journal

The more citations received, the more impact has the journal

HOW TO INCREASE THE

VISIBILITY?

The success of a journal depends on developing a loyal readership, who will become part

of the scholarly community, citing the content, and tell others about the value of the journal.

In order for this to transpire, the journal need to be discovered ~ the journal need to be

indexed…

Journals must increase their visibility, availability, and readership in order to be known as an authoritative source of scientific information, and to stand out from among many other publications

Getting the publication indexed by one or more leading databases.

achieved by

Being indexed in a known database will help increase journal’s readership and made it available to all users of the database

Being accessible in turn will improve journal’s reputation as a reliable source of high-quality information in the specific field.

Indexation of a journal is considered a reflection of its quality and are considered to be of higher scientific quality as compared to non-indexed journals.

The more indexing

platforms

The greater the opportunity for journals to build

a solid reputation in

the field

Types of

Indexes

Search Engines

General Indexes

Quality Assured Indexes

Citation Indexes

Regional Indexes

A citation index will

indicate how many times

a particular article has

been cited (or

referenced)

by other articles within

the index.

Metadata from journals (article titles, abstracts,

authors, etc.)

Track the citations of the articles

CITATION INDEX

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DATA

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Choose the right database

• Choose a database that is relevant to the journal’s field ~important to understand the features of the database providers.

• Some databases only index abstracts

• Some get professional indexers to scan entire manuscripts and index keywords.

• Some include citations in their indexing system.

Understand the selection process

followed by the database chosen

•Some general criteria that databases use to evaluate a journal’s suitability for indexing are quality of content published, publishing timeliness, and journal workflow and processes.

•Journal need to meet all criteria determine by the database to make sure that the journal is eligible to be indexed.

Ensure journal processes are smooth

and efficient

• Make sure journal meets the basic publication standards required by the industry (author friendly systems, smooth and timely peer reviews, easy accessibility, etc.).

• Need to highlight that the journal is worthy of being indexed by the database.

Approach a company with multiple

databases• Companies like Elsevier and Clarivate Analytics offer several indexes that cater the

journals.

1. Get unique author identifier to distinguish yourself and your work from other researchers.

2. Share outputs of your research

Publications, preprints, conference papers and posters, presentations, research data, video,

code are all evidence of research activity. By making them publicly accessible it will increase its visibility, preserve the outputs and make them available for future use.Sharing research data

These could be simply researcher’s personal and institutional web pages or commercial services to highlight their professional accomplishments and areas of expertise. Use Google Scholar Citation Profile or ImpactStory ~ a free online tool that allow researchers to showcase their research outputs (publications, presentations, data, code, posters, etc.)

Blogging is a great tool for making research content more visible. Writing a blog post, will create a content that can be freely shared via social media.

Twitter is an increasingly popular tool for researchers to popularize their research and build reputation. Some tips on how to use it effectively. Have a decent profile picture and text - this is how people will

find you. Use the Twitter search (or Google search) to find topics that

interest you - this will allow you to find and follow people working in your area

Look out for hash tags for events in your field (conferences/seminars). Follow them, even if you aren’t there. Comment on tweets that interest you or where you have something to say.

Set up search alerts to keep abreast of activity that’s of interest to you.

Tweet when your community is most active, and most likely to see your stuff.

Make use of Twitter lists to organize people you follow into thematic groups so that you don’t miss key things.

4. Engage in social networking communities

3. Create and keep up-to-date online profile

Research Gate

Academia.edu

Linkedin

Mendeley

6. Tweet

5. Blog

MEASURING SCHOLARLYIMPACT

“The impact of a research is the degree to which it has been useful to other researchers” (Bornmann, Mutz, Neuhaus, & Daniel, 2008, p. 93).

The impact measure takes into account reputation per academic product and expresses the amount of attention generated by the scholarly output

How to measure the impact?

SCHOLARLY OUTPUTS

CITATION INDEX

PUBLICATION DATA

SCHOLARLY IMPACT

To measure the impact of the scholarly works, tracking the scholarly output through publication data is requires. In order to obtain publication data, the publication need to be indexed in a citation index databases

1. Publication activity ~ show willingness to share research findings.

2. Authorship/collaboration patterns ~ show evidence of working with other authors, with various areas of research and institutional affiliations.

3. Citations to publications ~ demonstrates knowledge transfer of research findings

4. Citation patterns ~ demonstrates how original research is being used, by whom, in what areas of research, and where.

5. Grant acknowledgement networks ~ show how original research is being used by other research groups and who is funding those projects.

6. Cross-disciplinary of research efforts ~ demonstrates sharing of expertise and efficient use of resources.

7. Research trends represented by journals and articles ~ illustrate changes in publication activity and possible evidence of cross-disciplinary efforts.

8. Public engagement or activity noted for the work.

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Scientific impact – quality of publication measured using the number of received

citation

Industrial impact – measured by counting the number of citations received from

those publications published by R&D of the industries in international journals

Innovation impact – number of received citations from a pattern

Societal impact – number of attention received by the articles through social

media.

MEASURING SCHOLARLY

IMPACT

Ways to Measure Scholarly Outputs

Various methods used to measure the scholarly impact.

Impact Factor

h-index

Citation Analysis

Impact Factor (IF)

Citation Analysis

H-Index

• IF is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year.

• It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by calculating the times it's articles are cited.

• Citation analysis involves counting the number of times an article is cited by other works to measure the impact of a publication or author

• Purpose: to find out how much impact a particular article/author has had, by showing which other authors cited the work within their own papers.

• An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output.

• It is one specific method utilizing citation analysis to determine an individuals impact.

• It is based on the set of a researcher’s most cited papers and the number of citations that the researcher has received in other people's publications

MEASURING SCHOLARLY OUTPUTS

Total number of times its articles

were cited during the 2 previous

years

Total number of citable articles in

the journal during those period

A journal’s Impact

Factor for a particular

year

contribute to academic discourse

Why publish if nobody cites your work?

assessments/academic promotions increasingly focus on impact

• To prepare for confirmation/promotion/yearly performance appraisal

• To know who is building on your work

• They might be future collaborators

• It is exciting to see how others are using your research, you might get new ideas through it

• To get an ego boost, someone has (presumably) read your work

• Why you want to know if your work is cited?

Web of Science (ClarivateAnalytics) ~ has long been the “gold standard” of impact measurement

Scopus (Elsevier) ~ used by most university ranking

Google Scholar ~ the only alternative that is:

Not focused on a single discipline only

Freely available to anyone with an Internet connection

MyCite ~ for Malaysia journals indexed by Malaysia Citation Center

• H-Index ~ a convenient summary of quantity & impact and is used in many research assessments

• Total citations ~ fairest way to assess impact for individuals

H-index of 10 means 10 papers with at least 10 citations each

Can be adjusted for co-authorships (Hi index, cites/authors) and for age (Hc index, citations in recent years count more)

a focus on citations per paper might discourage people to publish additional papers

It can be adjusted by years (Cites/year) age of papers (AWCR; age-weighted citation rate) and # of authors (AWCRpA)

• Discoverability of the publication

• The productivity and quality of the researcher work

• The impact of the research in the field

• Attract funding

Increasing citation count have a

positive impact on researcher’s; the

number of citation will demonstrate:

Publish rigorous, original and significant

research

Have a focused area of research

Ask yourself “is my work going to be

cited?”

Have knowledge of the journals you may want to publish in (do

researchers in your field publish there?)

Incr

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Cit

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ou

ntsCite your past work when it is relevant to a new manuscript

Do not reference every paper you have written just to increase your citation count

Carefully choose the keywords

Choose the keywords that researchers in your field will be searching for so that the paper will appear in a database search.

Use keywords and phrases in the title and repeatedly in the abstract

Repeating keywords and phrases will increase the likelihood the paper will at the top of a search engine list, making it more likely to be read

Use consistent form of your name on all of your papers

Using the same name (consistent) will make it easier for others to find all of your published work.

If your name is very common, consider getting a research identifier, such as an ORCID or a ResearcherID

Make sure that your information is correct

Check that your name and affiliation are correct on the final proofs of your manuscript

Check that the paper’s information is accurate in database searchers

Incr

ease

Cit

atio

n C

ou

ntsMake your manuscript easily accessible

If your paper is not published in an open-access journal, post your pre- or post-publication prints to a repository

Share your data

Sharing research data can increase citations

Consider posting to data sharing websites, such as SlideShare, or contributing to Wikipedia and providing links to your published manuscripts.

Present your work at conferences

It will make your research more visible to the academic and research communities

Use social media

Provide links to your papers on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Mendeley and university profile page

Actively promote your work

Talk to other researchers about your paper, even ones not in your field, and email copies of your paper to researcher who may be interested

Create a blog or a website dedicated to your research and share it

• Malaysia journals do have the international publishing standard do not have impact in the global citation database.

• Focused on the ethical practices, avoid:

1. Excessive self citation – journals self citations

2. Citation stacking – sister or brother journals

3. Predatory journal publishing practices

MyJurnal (475)

MyCite (214)

Scopus (88)

ACI (100)

ESCI (57)

WoS(14)

MALAYSIA’S RESEARCH OUTPUT BASED ON ELSEVIER SCOPUS

Key findings ~ Malaysia shows very strong growth in publication output especially since 2007 onwards

MALAYSIA’S GROWING SCHOLARLY OUTPUT

Source : Scival and Malaysia Citation Centre estimates, January 2018

133,134NUMBER OF SCHOLARLY OUTPUT BY

MALAYSIAN INSTITUTIONS

22,664

25,209

28,248 27,168

29,845

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

82.2% of Malaysia scholarly output

were contributed by 20 Public Universities researchers

2016- highest number ever

recorded

AT A GLANCE2012-2016

Top 20 Institutions In Malaysia Ranked

By Number Of Publications

Scholarly

Output

FWCI

University of Malaya 21,032 1.25

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 16,838 0.94

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 16,332 0.80

Universiti Putra Malaysia 16,039 0.84

Universiti Sains Malaysia 15,338 0.85

Universiti Teknologi MARA 9,977 0.80

Universiti Teknologi Petronas 5,349 0.91

International Islamic University Malaysia 5,328 0.72

Universiti Malaysia Perlis 4,959 0.87

Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia 3,757 1.20

Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2,918 1.03

Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka 2,904 0.93

Universiti Utara Malaysia 2,894 0.48

Multimedia University 2,166 0.72

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu 1,904 0.67

Universiti Malaysia Sabah 1,895 0.83

Universiti Tenaga Nasional 1,851 0.91

University of Nottingham Malaysia

Campus1,833 1.26

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 1,450 0.77

Universiti Kuala Lumpur 1,011 0.70

Top 7 Subject Areas Ranked by

Citation per Publications

Scholarly

Output

Citations

per Pub.

Chemical Engineering 4,955 7.1

Energy 5,114 7.0

Chemistry 7,218 5.9

Immunology and Microbiology 1,677 5.7

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular

Biology6,447 5.4

Medicine 10,823 5.0

Environmental Science 7,089 4.8

Top 7 Subject Areas Ranked by

FWCI

Scholarly

Output

FWCI

Energy 5,114 1.30

Psychology 549 1.28

Chemical Engineering 4,955 1.21

Veterinary 284 1.19

Medicine 10,823 1.18

Health Professions 390 1.09

Nursing 622 1.07

Top 7 Subject Areas Ranked by

Number of Publications

Scholarly

Output

Citations

Engineering 29,438 77,287

Computer Science 13,669 29,668

Medicine 10,823 54,004

Materials Science 10,372 45,253

Physics and Astronomy 9,981 40,429

Social Sciences 8,366 12,243

Chemistry 7,218 42,755

MALAYSIA’S GROWING SCHOLARLY IMPACT

Source : Scival and Malaysia Citation Centre estimates, January 2018

AT A GLANCE2012-2016

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Scholarly Output (M'sia) 61,574 133,134 116.2%

Scholarly Output (Public Univ.) 48,712 109,479 124.7%

FWCI (M'sia) 0.80 0.90 12.5%

FWCI (Public Univ.) 0.79 0.91 15.2%

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PUBLICATIONS IN TOP 1% AND 10% HIGHLY CITED

COLLABORATION BY MALAYSIA

Source : Scival and Malaysia Citation Centre estimates, January 2018

191COLLABORATING

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Collaboration (%)

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TOP 20 COUNTRIES COLLABORATING WITH MALAYSIA

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Physics and Astronomy

Medicine

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AT A GLANCE2012-2016

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

Region totalsCollaborating

CountriesCo-authored publications

Africa 47 4,235

Asia Pacific 45 24,385

Europe 43 11,542

Middle East 18 12,754

North America 23 6,020

South America 15 1,240

MALAYSIA’S SUBJECT AREAS BREAKDOWN (Engineering)

Source : Scival and Malaysia Citation Centre estimates, January 2018

AT A GLANCE2012-2016

Country PublicationsPublications (growth %)

Citations per Publication

FWCI

1 China 823,977 -4.8 3.7 0.75

2 United States 452,197 4.1 6.5 1.53

3 Japan 143,963 -8.8 3.6 0.93

4 India 140,475 76.5 3.7 0.89

5 Germany 133,395 14.8 5.4 1.44

6 United Kingdom 116,241 21.6 6.6 1.52

7 South Korea 102,161 8.9 5.7 1.07

8 France 95,903 5.3 5.5 1.32

9 Italy 85,375 29.4 6.5 1.69

10 Canada 73,804 8.3 6.3 1.41

11 Taiwan 60,764 -19.9 4.6 0.93

12 Spain 59,883 10.9 6.7 1.39

13 Russian Federation 58,065 148.8 2.4 0.85

14 Australia 57,314 20.1 7.3 1.60

15 Iran 54,016 28.8 5.9 1.14

16 Malaysia 43,418 63.5 3.6 1.02

17 Poland 39,359 51.3 3.7 1.05

18 Brazil 39,217 33.5 3.9 0.93

19 Netherlands 32,825 2.8 7.2 1.71

20 Turkey 31,219 49.9 5.1 1.05

TOP 20 COUNTRIES RANKED BY NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS - ENGINEERING

6,302 7,673 9,935 9,207 10,301

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MALAYSIA PUBLICATION & FWCI IN ENGINEERING

Name PublicationsMost

recent publication

CitationsCitations

per Publication

FWCI h-index

Rusop, M. 457 2016 878 1.9 1.07 24Hashim, U. 326 2016 1,100 3.4 1.10 23Ahmad, H. 269 2016 1,431 5.3 0.83 34Harun, Sulaiman Wadi 251 2016 1,289 5.1 0.76 32Islam, Mohammad Tariqul 228 2016 1,164 5.1 0.95 31Abdullah, Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri

217 2015 649 3.0 1.73 19

Hussin, Kamarudin 173 2016 622 3.6 1.49 25Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi 172 2016 3,022 17.6 2.72 56Majlis, B. Y. 171 2016 369 2.2 0.63 17Hassan, Zainuriah Bint 165 2016 897 5.4 1.05 27

TOP 10 AUTHORS, BY NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING

TOP 20 INSTITUTIONS IN MALAYSIA RANKED BY NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS

University of Malaya

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Universiti Teknologi MARA

Universiti Teknologi Petronas

International Islamic University Malaysia

Universiti Malaysia Perlis

Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

Universiti Malaysia Pahang

Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

Universiti Utara Malaysia

Multimedia University

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu

Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Universiti Tenaga Nasional University of Nottingham Malaysia CampusUniversiti Malaysia Sarawak

Universiti Kuala Lumpur

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AT A GLANCE2012-2016

ESTABLISHMENT of

15 February 2011 ~ The Ministry of Higher Education initiated the idea of establishing Malaysia Citation Center (MCC).

The plan was a manisfestation of the Ministry’s commitment towards realizing a National Repository for Scholarly Publications.

This is in line with the aspiration to improve and increase the ability and competitiveness of the nation’s Higher Learning Institutions, especially in producing quality impactful scholarly publications

MINISTRY OF HIGHER

EDUCATION

DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER

EDUCATION

11 DIVISIONSMALAYSIA

CITATION CENTER

DEPARTMENT OF POLYTECH

EDUCATION

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY

COLLEGE EDUCATION

VISSION

TO PREVAIL AS THE EXCELLENT ORGANIZATION IN UPHOLDING SCHOLARLY KNOWLEDGE OF MALAYSIA

MISSION

EMPOWERING MALAYSIA’S SCHOLARLY KNOWLEDGE VISIBILITY TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE ECOSYSTEM IN IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION AND INSTITUTIONAL EXCELLENCE

LET’S MAKE THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE

5OBJECTIVES

1.To empower and enrich the nation’s repository for scholarly publications

2.To generate, analyse and disseminate analytical data on the nation’s scholarly publications performance

3.To enhance the visibility of the nation’s scholarly publications through collaboration with regional and international indexing agencies

4.To monitor performance of the nation’s scholarly journals for inclusion in the international index databases

5.To highlight the nation’s excellent researchers and institutions basedon the quality of their scholarly publications

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MAIN FUNCTION OF MCC –Supporting The Universities Initiatives to Improve Their Ranking and Highlighting the Excellence Talent based on Visibility and Performance of Their Scholarly Publications

MCC PRODUCTS

MCC’s Repositories

475 56,082 no. of articles.Every year more than 4,000

articles indexed

Journals

Institutions

73.5%Institute of Higher

Education

18.2%Professional Bodies &

Association

7.3%Government Agencies

1.0%Private Agencies

Language

English

54%

Malay2%

Bilingual

(English &

Malay)37%

Multi-lingual

7%

8,035

6,377

5,965

4,919

3,562

1,994

1,331

1,280

974

953

680

674

636

445

333

324

313

143

140

- 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000

UKM

UM

UTM

UPM

USM

UiTM

UIAM

UPSI

UTeM

UUM

UMP

UTHM

UMS

UNIMAS

USIM

UniMAP

UMT

UniSZA

UMK

TAYLORS, 1,161

UTP, 212

IMU, 145

KUISAS, 120

KUIS, 151

OUM, 67

UNIRAZAK, 63 UniKL, 60

UNITEN, 57

Lincoln University College, 5

No. of Articles

*as of 28 September 2017

MyCite – Citation Database in Asia Pacific

Chinese Science Citation

Database

Korea Citation

Index

Thai Journal Citation

Index

Taiwan Science Citation

Index

CiNii(Japan)

Indian Citation

Index

1989 1996 20072001 2005 2009

MyCITE

2011

214 45,461 no. of articlesJournals

Institutions

78.2%Institute of Higher

Education

14.9%Professional Bodies &

Association

6.1%Government Agencies

0.8%Private Agencies

Language

English

59%

Malay2%

Bilingual

(English &

Malay)

31%

Multi-lingua

l8%

7,277

5,536

4,886

4,502

3,217

1,734

1,102

1,070

974

744

674

569

517

400

322

313

143

140

- 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000

UKM

UTM

UPM

UM

USM

UiTM

UPSI

UIAM

UTeM

UUM

UTHM

UMP

UMS

UNIMAS

USIM

UMT

UniSZA

UMK

TAYLORS, 1,161

KUISAS, 120

OUM, 67 KUIS , 45 UTP, 35

No. of Articles

*as of 28 September 2017

TOTAL NO OF JOURNAL AND ARTICLES IN MyJurnal AND MyCite ( 2015-2017)

348

141

408

138

475

214

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

450

500

MyJurnal MyCite

TOTAL JOURNAL

2015 2016 2017

39,788

29,029

47,404

32,418

56,082

45,461

0

10,000

20,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

MyJurnal MyCite

TOTAL ARTICLES

2015 2016 2017

Visitors to MyJurnal for year 2012-2016

MyJMSMalaysia Jurnal Management System

Malaysian Jurnal Management System

(MyJMS) provide:

1. To encourage the Malaysian journal ‘s

publisher to manage their publication

ONLINE

2. Save RESOURCES, TIME and COSTS for

journal publishing

3. ONLINE system that support author and

editors in MANAGING PUBLISHING

4. Manage and organise the publishing and

review process of articles efficiently

ASSESSMENT OF MALAYSIA’S SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

MyJurnal

MyCite

ACI/SCOPUS/WoS/ISC

Journal

JournalJournal

Scopus WoS ACI ISC

• All articles in the journals are

indexed and the performance of

the journals are evaluated based

on a set of evaluation criteria.

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MCC COLLABORATION MODEL

MyJurnal

MyCite

ACI/SCOPUS/WoS

MCC LINKAGES WITH OTHER DATABASES

WoS

ACI/Other

Databases

SCOPUS

REPOSITORI

UA

US

Research Institutions

Government Agencies

Others

WHO ARE WE?

The curator for centralized repository of national scholarly publishing

The sole agency in Malaysia that analyze the performance of the national scholarly publication for the purposes of rating university ranking

Consolidate strategic data for stakeholders in supporting “Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education)”

Enhance the visibility of national scholarly publications internationally

A body recognised by Clarivate Analytics, Elsevier, ASEAN Citation Index, Islamic World Science Citation Index as the national citation indexing agency

Provide support system that spurs research activities

ISSU

E • The impact of research output needs to be measured holistically

• Currently, the measurement used are the citation-based metrics (citation counts, h-index, impact factors, etc) and not much attention being given to measure societal impact

• Measuring societal impact is equally important because it shows the impact of research output to the society

SOLU

TIO

N • A platform that can measure societal impact

• Malaysia Citation Center plan to develop a platform that can measure societal impact on the articles published in Malaysian journals

• It can be part of big data in the ministry for translational research, which increasingly embraces data-intensive new discovery among society.

BEN

EFIT

S • Promotes research to society so as the level of understanding of the research among society will increase

• MoHE or research funders will be able to identify the impact of the research to the society

• Promotes the strength of institution in certain field that is valued by the society

• Provide a platform for researcher to have direct enggangementwith society and potential collaborator

• Provide evidence-based indicator for research strategic planning in the institution and country.

ACADEMIC IMPACT

Journal Impact Factor

Citation Counts

H-Index

Number of Publications

SOCIETAL IMPACTMentions in news report, blogs, social medias, etc…

BibliometricsAltmetrics

To ensure a wider accessibility and availability of the nation’s scholarly

outputs, productivity and also to contribute towards achieving the

nation’s aspiration to be a developed country, MCC committed to make Malaysian scholarly outputs more

VISIBLE...

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