Performance of

Malaysian Journals

in MyCite: 2012

© 2013, Malaysian Citation Centre : Pusat Sitasi Malaysia,

Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia

Performance of

Malaysian Journals in

MyCite: 2012

© 2013, Malaysian Citation Centre : Pusat Sitasi Malaysia,

Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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© 2013, Malaysian Citation Centre, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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Performance of Malaysian Journals in MyCite: 2012. – Putrajaya : Malaysian Citation Centre, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, 2013.

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ISBN: 978-967-11157-2-5

1. Abstracting and indexing services – Malaysia. 2. Citation indexes. 3. Bibliographic citations – Indexes. 3. Scholarly periodicals – Malaysia – Indexes . I. T.

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Contents

Preface 5

1. Trailing Published Malaysian Journals 6

2. Malaysian Journals in the Web of Science and Scopus 8

3. Performance Status 15

3.1. Ranking of Journals by h-index 15

3.2. Ranking of Journals By Impact Factor 18

3.3. Ranking of Journals by Total Citations 23

3.4. Top 20 Authors Ranked by Total Publications

And Total Citations 26

3.5. Top 20 Institutions Ranked by Total Publications in MyCite 27

3.6. Authors Affiliated to Foreign Countries Contributing

To Malaysian Journals 29

4. Discussion and Conclusion 30

5. References 33

6. Acknowledgement 35

7. Subject Categories 36

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Tables

Table 1.1: Publishers of Scholarly Journals in Malaysia 7

Table 2.1: Malaysian Journals Indexed in WoS Listed in JCR 2011 8

Table 2.2: Malaysian Journals Indexed in Scopus Listed in SciMago 2011 9

Table 2.3: Number of Journals Indexed in MyCite by Broad Fields 10

Table 2.4: Number of Journals Indexed by Types of Institutions 11

Table 2.5: List of Malaysian Journals Indexed in MyCite 12

Table 3.1: Journals in MyCite Ranked by h-index 16

Table 3.2: All Journals in MyCite Ranked by Yearly Impact Factor 18

Table 3.3: Journals in Science, Technology, Engineering & Medicine (STEM)

Discipline Ranked by Yearly Impact Factor 21

Table 3.4: Journals in the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences (AHSS)

Discipline Ranked by Yearly Impact Factor 22

Table 3.5: Journals in MyCite Ranked by Total Citations 24

Table 3.6: Top 20 Authors Ranked by Total Publications in MyCite 26

Table 3.7: Top 20 Authors Ranked by Total Citations in MyCite 27

Figures

Figure 1.1: Total Journals Published in Malaysia by Broad Year Bands 6

Figure 1.2: Trends of Publications in the 2000s 7

Figure 3.1: Top 20 Institutions Ranked by Total Publications in MyCite 28

Figure 3.2: Top 10 Country-based Works Ranked by Total Publications

in 2006-2010 29

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Preface

This is the first report which informs about the status and performance of Malaysian journals Indexed in MyCite (Malaysian Citation Index). The data covers journals that are currently indexed by the Malaysian Citation Centre, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. In the first chapter this report provides information about the total Malaysian journals published in Malaysia identified from an audit carried out in May 2012. The second chapter indicates the journals published in Malaysia that are currently being indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) databases and Scopus, number of journals indexed by broad field and a list of Malaysian journals reported in MyCite. The third chapter indicates the performance of journals based on bibliometric indicators. This includes, ranking of journals by h index, ranking of journals by yearly impact factors, journals ranked by total citations received, the top 20 authors who published in Malaysian journals ranked by total publications, top 20 authors ranked by total citations, the top 20 institutions ranked by total publications in MyCite, the top 50 Malaysian journals ranked by total citations and the top 10 country-based articles ranked by total publications between 2006 and 2010. This report therefore, looks at performance of Malaysian journals based on publication and citation counts calculated from papers indexed for at least 5 years of issues in MyCite. We acknowledge that such indicators do not measure the real quality of a journal but we consider it as a reflection of productivity and impact evidenced by data retrieved from a national citation database initiated in collaboration by the University of Malaya and the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. In presenting the performance of Malaysian journals this report hopes to highlight areas, persons and institutions of excellence. This report is certainly limited by its coverage of only scholarly journals published in Malaysia, which are indexed by the centre. We are aware that the coverage is not as comprehensive as we want it to be as we have managed to cover only over a 100 journals between 2011 and 2012.

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1. Trailing Published Malaysian Journals

The Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia has been concerned about the quality of scholarly journals published in Malaysia as public monies has been committed to initiate and sustain these journals. In an attempt to determine the status of journals published in Malaysia a journal audit was carried out in early 2012.1 This audit revealed that there are 464 scholarly journal titles published in Malaysia. The publication status of these journals were traced from online catalogues of the University of Malaya and the National Library of Malaysia. Figures 1.1 and 1.2 and Table 1.1 indicate the publication trends of Malaysian scholarly journals and the publishers.

Source: A.N. Zainab et al., 2012

Figure 1.1: Total Journals Published in Malaysia by Broad Year Bands

There is higher activity in the 2000s and this may be due to more emphasis by the Ministry of Higher Education on academic publishing in journals, which helped push up academic journal publishing amongst the Malaysian universities.

1905-1960s

1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s TOTAL

Frequency 36 51 78 102 197 464

Percentage 7.7 11 16.8 22 42.5 100

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Figure 1.2: Trends of Publications in the 2000s

The active publishers of scholarly journals are universities (257, 55.5%), followed by the professional or scholarly associations (104, 22.4%) and government and private agencies (103, 22.1%) (Table 1.1). The older universities and colleges are more likely to be active publishers. Even though the total number of titles was estimated to be 464 titles, we suspect that may be half of the titles have ceased, especially those in the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences.

Table 1.1: Publishers of Scholarly Journals in Malaysia

Publishers No. of Journals

Percentage

Government Agencies 96 20.6 Societies, Associations 104 22.4 Universities, Colleges 257 55.5 Private Companies 7 1.5

TOTAL 464 100 Source: A.N. Zainab et al., 2012

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 20092010/

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2000s 10 23 13 22 27 35 15 13 16 15 8 197

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2. Malaysian Journals in the Web of Science and Scopus

The number of Malaysian journals indexed by citation databases such as the Web of Science databases (WoS), comprising the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index as well as Scopus indicate the visibility of the journals internationally. However, the number of journals covered by WoS remain small (Table 2.1), while the numbers indexed in Scopus (Table 2.2) is increasing. 2,3

Table 2.1 : Malaysian Journals Indexed in WoS Listed in JCR 2011

No. Title ISSN Impact Factor

5-year Impact Factor

Imme-diacy Index

Cited Half Life

Publisher Database

- 1 - Al-Shajarah* - 1394-6870

- N/A N/A - N/A - N/A - International Islamic University Malaysia

AHCI

- 2 - Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health *

- 1010-5395

- 1.056 1.271 - 0.495 - 4.3 - UM for Asia Pacific Acad. Consortium for Public Health

SCIE, SSCI

- 3 - Asian Myrmecology * - 1985-1944

- 0.625 N/A - 0.500 - N/A - Universiti Malaysia Sabah for International Network for the Study of Asian Ants

SCIE

- 4 - Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society

- 0126-6705

- 0.779 N/A - 0.117 - 2.7 - Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society

SCIE

- 5 - Journal of Oil Palm Research

- 1511-2780

- 0.237 N/A - 0.000 - 7.2 - Malaysian Palm Oil Board SCIE

- 6 - Journal of Rubber Research

- 1511-1768

- 0.297 N/A - 0.000 - >10.0 - Rubber Research Institute Malaysia

SCIE

- 7 - Journal of Tropical Forest Science

- 0128-1283

- 0.467 0.594 - 0.086 - 8.8 - Forest Research Institute Malaysia

SCIE

- 8 - Malaysian Journal of Computer Science

- 0127-9084

- 0.167 N/A - 0.059 - N/A - Fac. Comp. Sci. & Infor. Tech., Universiti Malaya

SCIE

- 9 - Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science

- 1394-6234

- 0.381 N/A - 0.000 - - Fac. Comp. Sci. & Infor. Tech., Universiti Malaya

SSCI

- 10 - Neurology Asia - 1823-6138

- 0.186 N/A - 0.016 - N/A - Universiti Malaya for Asean Neurological Association

SCIE

- 11 - Sains Malaysiana - 0126-6039

- 0.268 N/A - 0.043 - 2.4 - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

SCIE

- 12 - Tropical Biomedicine - 0127-5720

- 0.622 - 0.804 - 0.089 - 4.8 - Malaysian Society of Parasitology Tropical Medicine

- SCIE

* SCIE: Science Citation Index Expanded – SSCI: Social Sciences Citation Index – AHCI: Arts and Humanities Citation Index

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Table 2.2 : Malaysian Journals Indexed in Scopus Listed in SciMago 2011

No. Title ISSN SJR Index

H-Index

Publisher

- 1 - ABU Technical Review - 0126-6209 - 0.100 2 - Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union - 2 - Akademika - 0126-5008 - 0.126 1 - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - 3 - Asian Academy of Management Journal - 1394-2603 - N/A - N/A - Universiti Sains Malaysia - 4 - Asian Academy of Management Journal of

Accounting and Finance - 1823-4992 - 0.129 1 - Universiti Sains Malaysia

- 5 - Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

- 0128-7451 - 0.126 6 - Malays. Soc for Mol. Biol. and Biotech.

- 6 - ASM Science Journal - 1823-6782 - 0.000 1 - Academy of Sciences Malaysia - 7 - Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal - 1823-5530 - 0.128 8 - Universiti Malaya - 8 - Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia - 0126-6187 - 0.119 1 - Geological Society of Malaysia - 9 - Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences

Society - 0126-6705 - 0.642 7 - Malaysian Mathematical Sciences

Society & USM - 10 - Gema Online Journal of Language Studies - 1675-8021 - 0.286 4 - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - 11 - Intellectual Discourse - 0128-4878 - 0.000 0 - Int. Islamic University Malaysia - 12 - International Food Research Journal - 1985-4668 - 0.337 8 - Universiti Putra Malaysia - 13 - International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies - 1823-6243 - 0.000 1 - Universiti Sains Malaysia - 14 - International Journal of Business and Society - 1511-6670 - 0.103 1 - Universiti Malaysia Sarawak - 15 - International Journal of Economics and

Management - 1823-836X - 0.119 3 - Universiti Pertanian Malaysia

- 16 - International Journal of Mechanical & Materials Engineering

- 1823-0334 - 0.326 6 - Universiti Malaya

- 17 - International Medical Journal Malaysia - 1823-4631 - 0.000 0 - Int. Islamic University Malaysia - 18 - Journal of Construction in Developing Countries - 1823-6499 - 0.000 0 - Universiti Sains Malaysia - 19 - Journal of Engineering Science and Technology - 1823-4690 - 0.169 3 - Taylor’s University - 20 - Journal of Rubber Research - 1511-1768 - 0.246 3 - Malaysian Rubber Board - 21 - Journal of Science and Technology in the Tropics - 1823-5034 - 0.101 1 - Academy of Sciences Malaysia - 22 - Journal of Sustainability Science and Management - 1823-8556 - 0.106 2 - Universiti Malaysia Terengganu - 23 - Journal of the University of Malaya Medical Centre - 1823-7339 - 0.103 2 - Universiti Malaya - 24 - Journal of Tropical Forest Science - 0128-1283 - 0.253 13 - Forest Res. Inst. Malaysia - 25 - Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia - 0126-1962 - 0.101 0 - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - 26 - Jurnal Pengurusan - 0127-2713 - 0.101 1 - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - 27 - Kajian Malaysia - 0127-4082 - N/A - N/A - Universiti Sains Malaysia - 28 - Kemanusiaan - 1394-9330 - 0.102 0 - Universiti Sains Malaysia - 29 - Malayan Nature Journal - - 0.125 1 - Malaysian Nature Society - 30 - Malaysian Family Physician - 1985-2274 - 0.145 4 - Acad. of Family Physicians Mal. - 31 - Malaysian Forester - 0302-2935 - 0.202 2 - Universiti Putra Malaysia - 32 - Malaysian Journal of Computer Science - 0127-9084 - 0.191 6 - Universiti Malaya - 33 - Malaysian Journal of Consumer & Family

Economics - 1511-2802 - 0.101 0 - Malaysian Consumer and Family

Economics Association - 34 - Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies - 1511-4554 - 0.187 3 - Per. Ekon. Malaysia & UM - 35 - Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science - 1394-6234 - 0.159 8 - Universiti Malaya - 36 - Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences - 1823-8343 - 0.126 3 - Universiti Putra Malaysia - 37 - Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences - 1394-195X - 0.130 6 - Universiti Sains Malaysia - 38 - Malaysian Journal of Medicine & Health Sciences - 1675-8544 - 0.126 2 - Universiti Putra Malaysia - 39 - Malaysian Journal of Microscopy - 1823-7010 - 0.100 0 - Universiti Putra Malaysia

- 40 - Malaysian Journal of Nutrition - 1394-035X - 0.215 5 - Nutrition Society of Malaysia - 41 - Malaysian Journal of Pathology - 0126-8635 - 0.139 8 - Acad. of Medicine of Malaysia - 42 - Malaysian Journal of Science - 1394-3065 - 0.113 4 - Universiti Malaya

- 43 - Malaysian Journal of Soil Science - 1394-7990 - 0.154 2 - Malaysian Society of Soil Science - 44 - Medical Journal of Malaysia - 0300-5283 - 0.153 14 - Malaysian Medical Assoc.

- 45 - Medical Physiology Online - 1985-4811 - 0.113 0 - ES Prakash

- 46 - Neurology Asia - 1823-6138 - 0.214 5 - Univ. Malaya for Asean Neurol Assoc.

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- 47 - Pertanika Journal of Social Science & Humanities - 0128-7702 - 0.100 1 - Universiti Putra Malaysia

- 48 - Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science - 1511-3701 - 0.121 4 - Universiti Putra Malaysia - 49 - Planning Malaysia - 1675-6215 - 0.106 0 - Malaysian Institute of Planners

- 50 - Sains Malaysiana - 0126-6039 - 0.160 6 - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - 51 - Tropical Biomedicine - 0127-5720 - 0.303 12 - Malays. Soc. of Parasit. & Trop.

Med. - 52 - Tropical Life Sciences Research - 1985-3718 - 0.164 2 - Universiti Sains Malaysia - 53 - Wacana Seni, Journal of Arts Discourse - 1675-3410 - N/A - N/A - Universiti Sains Malaysia

While access to Malaysian journals are possible through those covered by citation

databases such as the WoS and Scopus, this is not so for the majority of scholarly journals

published in Malaysia. The content of most Malaysian journals are invisible to Malaysian

researchers and scholars.4 As a result the Malaysian Citation Centre under the Ministry of

Higher Education together with the University of Malaya initiated the development of

MyCite. MyCite aims to support the access to journals contents as well as increase their

visibility. This effort is in tandem with similar national initiatives in Thailand, through the

Thai Citation Index5, Taiwan Citation Index6 and citation systems in Korea7, China8 and

Japan9. At the national level, Malaysian journals are being indexed in MyCite. Out of the

estimated 464 journals only 112 are indexed in MyCite (24%) since the inception of the

Malaysian Citation Centre in February 2011 (Table 2.3). The 112 journals produces a total

of 17,292 articles. Some of the articles in MyCite are accessible online depending on the

agreement with editors. MyCite does not index editorial notes and book reviews. For

articles in the religion category, titles and references in Arabic or Jawi text are not

indexed. Each of the journals covered by MyCite is covered for at least three to five years

of issues. This is to facilitate the calculations of total citations and impact factor.

Table 2.3 : Number of Journals Indexed in MyCite by Broad Fields

Disciplines Number of Journals Percent Number of Articles Percent

Arts & Humanities 21 18.7 1,985 11.5 Engineering & Technology 14 12.5 1,570 9.1

Medical & Health Sciences 19 17.0 4,669 27.0

Sciences 27 24.1 6,406 37.0

Social Sciences 31 27.7 2,662 15.4

Total 112 100 17,292 100

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The majority of the journals indexed are published by the universities (75%). This is

because the universities have increasingly been adopting the “green” policy, opening full

access to their journals and consciously request to be indexed to increase their visibility

and gauge their performance. The details are provided in Table 2.4. The citation centre

are finding difficulties in obtaining access to journals published by government-based

agencies, which are still publishing their journals in print and hinders access to full-text

and slows down the process of their indexation into MyCite. Table 2.5 provides the list of

112 journal titles that are currently being indexed in MyCite.

Table 2.4: Number of Journals Indexed by Types of Institutions

Institutions Number of Journals Percent

Universities 84 75.0 Professional Bodies and Societies 21 19.0

Rest (Institutes, Government Agencies) 7 6.0

Total 112 100

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Table 2.5: List of Malaysian Journals Indexed in MyCite

No. Journals ISSN E-ISSN Publisher

1 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language

Studies

0128−5157

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

2 Akademika Jurnal Sains Kemasyarakatan dan

Kemanusiaan

0126−5008

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

3 Al-Bayan Journal of Al-Quran & al-Hadith 2232−1950 2232-1969 University of Malaya

4 Annals of Dentistry 0128-7532 University of Malaya

5 Archives of Orofacial Sciences 1823-8602 2231-7163 Universiti Sains Malaysia

6 ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry 2231-7805 2231-7791 ASEAN Federation of Psychiatry and Mental Health

7 ASEAN Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher

Education

1985−5826

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

8 Asia Pacific Journal of Educators and Education (formerly Jurnal Pendidik & Pendidikan)

2180−3463

/0126−7272

Universiti Sains Malaysia

9 Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

0128-7451 Malaysian Society for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

10 Asia Pacific Management Accounting Journal 1675−3194

Universiti Teknologi MARA

11 Asian Academy of Management Journal 1394−2603 Universiti Sains Malaysia

12 Asian Academy of Management Journal of

Accounting and Finance

1823−4992

2180-4192 Universiti Sains Malaysia

13 Asian Journal of Business and Accounting 1985−4064 2180-3137 University of Malaya

14 Asian Journal of University Education 1823−7797 Universiti Teknologi MARA

15 Asiatic IIUM Journal of English Language and

Literature

1985−3016

International Islamic University Malaysia

16 ASM Science Journal 1823-6782 Academy of Sciences Malaysia

17 Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal 1823-5530 University of Malaya

18 Buletin Persatuan Genetik Malaysia 1394-5750 Persatuan Genetik Malaysia

19 Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia

0126-6187 Geological Society of Malaysia

20 Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences

Society

0126-6705 Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society & USM

21 e-Bangi Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 1823−884X Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

22 Education in Medicine Journal 2180-1932 Universiti Sains Malaysia

23 Engineering e-Transaction 1823-6379 University of Malaya

24 English Teacher 0128−7729 Malaysian English Language Teaching Association

25 GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 1675−8021 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

26 Geografia: Malaysian Journal of Society & Space 2180−2491

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

27 Geoinformation Science Journal 1511-9491 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

28 IIUM Engineering Journal 1511-788X International Islamic University Malaysia

29 Intellectual Discourse 0128−4878 International Islamic University Malaysia

30 International e-Journal of Science, Medicine &

Education

2231-8194 International Medical University Malaysia

31 International Food Research Journal 1985-4668 2231-7546 Universiti Putra Malaysia

32 International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 1823−6243 Universiti Sains Malaysia

33 International Journal of Banking and Finance 1675−7227 Universiti Utara Malaysia

34 International Journal of Business and Society 1511−6670 Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

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35 International Journal of Economics and

Management

1823−836X

Universiti Putra Malaysia

36 International Journal of Institutions and Economies 1985−7276

University of Malaya

37 International Journal of Integrated Engineering 2229-838X Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

38 International Journal of Management Studies 0127−8983 2180-2467 Universiti Utara Malaysia

39 International Journal of Mechanical and Materials

Engineering

1823-0334 University of Malaya

40 International Journal of Nanoelectronics and

Materials

1985-5761 1997-4434 Universiti Malaysia Perlis

41 International Journal of West Asian Studies 2229−8924 2180-4788 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

42 International Medical Journal Malaysia

43 JATI - Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 1823−4127 University of Malaya

44 JEBAT: Malaysian Journal of History, Politics &

Strategic Studies

0126−5644 2180-0251 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

45 Journal of al-Tamaddun 1823−7517 University of Malaya

46 Journal of Construction in Developing Countries 1823-6499 2180-4222 Universiti Sains Malaysia

47 Journal of Design and Built Environment 1823-4208 University of Malaya

48 Journal of Engineering Science and Technology

(JESTEC)

1823-4690 Taylor’s University

49 Journal of Fundamental Sciences (currently

Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied

Sciences)

1823-626X Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

50 Journal of Human Capital Development 1985−7012 Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

51 Journal of Information and Communication

Technology

1675-414X 2180-3862 Universiti Utara Malaysia

52 Journal of International Studies 1823−691X Universiti Utara Malaysia

53 Journal of Mechanical Engineering 1823-5514 Universiti Teknologi MARA

54 Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology 2180-1053 Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

55 Journal of Modern Languages 1675−526X University of Malaya

56 Journal of Nuclear and Related Technologies 1823-0180 Malaysian Nuclear Society

57 Journal of Oil Palm Research 1511-2780 Malaysian Palm Oil Board

58 Journal of Physical Science 1675-3402 2180-4230 Universiti Sains Malaysia

59 Journal of Science and Technology 2229-8460 Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

60 Journal of Sustainability Science and Management 1823-8556 Universiti Malaysia Terengganu

61 Journal of Technical Education and Training 2229−8932 Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

62 Journal of Techno-Social 2229−8940 Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

63 Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and

Computer Engineering

2180-1843 Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

64 Journal of Tropical Forest Science 0128-1283 Forest Research Institute Malaysia

65 Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia 0126−1962 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

66 Jurnal Fizik Malaysia 0128-0333 Institut Fizik Malaysia

67 Jurnal Kemanusiaan 1675−1930 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

68 Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of

Communication

0128−0496 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

69 Jurnal Pendidikan Malaysia (Malaysian Journal of

Education) (formerly Jurnal Pendidikan)

0126−6020 2180-0782 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

70 Jurnal Pengajian Media Malaysia 1511−2284 2231-8143 University of Malaya

71 Jurnal Pengurusan 0127−2713 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

72 Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia 1675-8161 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

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73 Jurnal Syariah 0128−6730 University of Malaya

74 Kajian Malaysia (Journal of Malaysian Studies) 0127−4082 2180-4273 Universiti Sains Malaysia

75 Kemanusiaan The Asian Journal of Humanities (formerly Jurnal Ilmu Kemanusiaan)

1394−9330 2180-4257 Universiti Sains Malaysia

76 Labuan e-Journal of Muamalat and Society 1985-482X Universiti Malaysia Sabah

77 Malaysian Accounting Review 1675−4077 Universiti Teknologi MARA

78 Malaysian Applied Biology Journal 0126-8643 Malaysian Society of Applied Biology

79 Malaysian Family Physician 1985-2274 Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia

80 Malaysian Journal of Analytical Sciences 1394-2506 Malaysian Society of Analytical Sciences

81 Malaysian Journal of Chemistry 1511-2292 Institut Kimia Malaysia

82 Malaysian Journal of Civil Engineering 1823-7843 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

83 Malaysian Journal of Computer Science 0127-9084 University of Malaya

84 Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 1511−4554 Persatuan Ekonomi Malaysia & UM

85 Malaysian Journal of ELT Research 1511−8002 Malaysian English Language Teaching Association

86 Malaysian Journal of Learning & Instruction 1675−8110 2180-2483 Universiti Utara Malaysia

87 Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 1394−6234 University of Malaya

88 Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences 1823-8343 Universiti Putra Malaysia

89 Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences 1394-195X 2180-4303 Universiti Sains Malaysia

90 Malaysian Journal of Microbiology 1823-8262 2231-7538 Malaysian Society for Microbiology

91 Malaysian Journal of Nutrition 1394-035X Nutrition Society of Malaysia

92 Malaysian Journal of Pathology 0126-8635 Academy of Medicine of Malaysia

93 Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry 0128-8628 Malaysian Psychiatric Association

94 Malaysian Journal of Science 1394-3065 University of Malaya

95 Malaysian Journal of Soil Science 1394-7990 Malaysian Society of Soil Science

96 Malaysian Journal of Sport Science and Recreation 1823−3198 Universiti Teknologi MARA

97 Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 1985-2533 Malaysian Orthopaedic Association

98 Malaysian Polymer Journal 1823-7789 Plastics and Rubber Institute of Malaysia

99 Matematika 0127-8274 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

100 Medical Journal of Malaysia 0300-5283 Malaysian Medical Association

101 Medicine & Health 1823-2140 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

102 Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology 0128-7680 2231-8526 Universiti Putra Malaysia

103 Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities 0128−7702 2231-8534 Universiti Putra Malaysia

104 Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science 1511-3701 2231-8542 Universiti Putra Malaysia

105 Sains Malaysiana 0126-6039 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

106 SARI: Jurnal Alam dan Tamaddun Melayu 0127−2721 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

107 SARJANA 1823−7746 University of Malaya

108 Sepilok Bulletin 1823-0067 Sabah Forestry Department

109 Tirai Panggung 0128−5998 University of Malaya

110 Tropical Biomedicine 0127-5720 Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine

111 Tropical Life Sciences Research (formerly Journal of

Bioscience)

1985-3718 2180-4249 Universiti Sains Malaysia

112 Wacana Seni, Journal of Arts Discourse 1675−3410 2180-4311 Universiti Sains Malaysia

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3. Performance Status Similar to other Asia-Pacific citation systems, MyCite provides bibliometric indicators for each journal it covers. Value is added to each journal indexed by providing information about its article productivity, total citations received and its h-index. Besides this, MyCite through its Journal Citation Report module provides bibliometric indices such as 2-year and 5-year impact factors, immediacy index (how soon articles are cited in the year of calculation) and cited half-life (the average span of years that articles receive citations before it tapers off). Overall, the data shows that journals that are covered for longer number of years in MyCite perform better with their h-index scores. Also, journals in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are performing well within Malaysia, indicating that even though they find it difficult to gain indexation status by international citation indexes they are important nationally since their articles are being cited. 3.1. Ranking of Journals by h-index

The h-index10 gives an estimate of the importance of a journal’s cumulative performance. The index is based on the distribution of citations received by articles published in a journal. Therefore a journal with an index of h has published h articles each of which has been cited in other articles at least h times. A journal with an h-index of 6 would have a total of 36 citations, where at least 6 of its articles have 6 citations each. The h-index do not have a fixed time frame such as the 2-year or 5-year used for the Impact factor indexes. This means the h-index takes into account the productivity of the journals (number of articles it publishes) as well as the citations the articles received. It is another index that can be used to estimate the performance of a journal. Table 3.1 ranks the journals indexed in MyCite by their h-index.

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Table 3.1: Journals in MyCite Ranked by h-index

No. Journals h-index

1 Malaysian Journal of Nutrition 6 2 Medical Journal of Malaysia 5 3 International Food Research Journal 5 4 Tropical Biomedicine 4 5 Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 4 6 GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 4 7 Sepilok Bulletin 3 8 Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences 3 9 Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 3

10 Journal of Oil Palm Research 3 11 International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 3 12 e-Bangi Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 3 13 Tropical Life Sciences Research (formerly Journal of Bioscience) 2 14 Sains Malaysiana 2 15 Matematika 2 16 Malaysian Journal of Science 2 17 Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry 2 18 Malaysian Journal of Pathology 2 19 Malaysian Journal of Microbiology 2 20 Malaysian Journal of Computer Science 2 21 Malaysian Journal of Civil Engineering 2 22 Malaysian Journal of Analytical Sciences 2 23 Malaysian Accounting Review 2 24 Jurnal Pengurusan 2 25 Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication 2 26 Journal of Tropical Forest Science 2 27 Journal of Sustainability Science and Management 2 28 Journal of Engineering Science and Technology 2 29 International Journal of Management Studies 2 30 International Journal of Economics and Management 2 31 Geografia: Malaysian Journal of Society and Space 2 32 English Teacher 2 33 Engineering e-Transaction 2 34 Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society 2 35 Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance 2 36 Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 2 37 ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry 2 38 Archives of Orofacial Sciences 2 39 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies 2 40 SARI: Jurnal Alam dan Tamaddun Melayu 1 41 Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science 1 42 Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities 1 43 Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology 1 44 Medicine & Health 1 45 Malaysian Polymer Journal 1 46 Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 1 47 Malaysian Journal of Soil Science 1 48 Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences 1 49 Malaysian Journal of Learning & Instruction 1 50 Malaysian Journal of ELT Research 1 51 Malaysian Journal of Chemistry 1 52 Malaysian Family Physician 1 53 Malaysian Applied Biology Journal 1 54 Kajian Malaysia (Journal of Malaysian Studies) 1 55 Jurnal Syariah 1

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56 Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia 1 57 Jurnal Pengajian Media Malaysia 1 58 Jurnal Pendidikan Malaysia (Malaysian Journal of Education) (formerly Jurnal Pendidikan) 1 59 Jurnal Kemanusiaan 1 60 Jurnal Fizik Malaysia 1 61 Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia 1 62 Journal of Technical Education and Training 1 63 Journal of Physical Science 1 64 Journal of Nuclear and Related Technologies 1 65 Journal of Modern Languages 1 66 Journal of Information and Communication Technology 1 67 Journal of Fundamental Sciences (currently Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and

Applied Sciences) 1

68 Journal of Design and Built Environment 1 69 Journal of Construction in Developing Countries 1 70 Jebat: Malaysian Journal of History, Politics and Strategic Studies 1 71 JATI – Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 1 72 International Medical Journal Malaysia 1 73 International Journal of Nanoelectronics and Materials 1 74 International Journal of Business and Society 1 75 International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 1 76 International e-Journal of Science, Medicine & Education 1 77 Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia 1 78 Buletin Persatuan Genetik Malaysia 1 79 Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal 1 80 ASM Science Journal 1 81 Asiatic IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 1 82 Asian Journal of University Education 1 83 Asian Journal of Business and Accounting 1 84 Asian Academy of Management Journal 1 85 Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal 1 86 Asia Pacific Journal of Educators and Education (formerly Jurnal Pendidik dan Pendidikan) 1 87 Annals of Dentistry 1 88 Akademika Jurnal Sains Kemasyarakatan dan Kemanusiaan 1 89 Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse 0 90 Tirai Panggung 0 91 SARJANA 0 92 Malaysian Journal of Sports Science and Recreation 0 93 Labuan e-Journal of Muamalat and Society 0 94 Kemanusiaan The Asian Journal of Humanities (formerly Jurnal Ilmu Kemanusiaan) 0 95 Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering 0 96 Journal of Techno-Social 0 97 Journal of Science and Technology 0 98 Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology 0 99 Journal of Mechanical Engineering 0

100 Journal of International Studies 0 101 Journal of Human Capital Development 0 102 Journal of Al-Tamaddun 0 103 International Journal of West Asian Studies 0 104 International Journal of Integrated Engineering 0 105 International Journal of Institutions and Economies 0 106 International Journal of Banking and Finance 0 107 Intellectual Discourse 0 108 IIUM Engineering Journal 0 109 Geoinformation Science Journal 0 110 Education in Medicine Journal 0 111 ASEAN Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 0 112 Al-Bayan Journal of Al-Quran & al-Hadith 0

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3.2. Ranking of Journals by Impact Factor

The journal yearly Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the calculated year. The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations received by articles published by a journal in the calculated year by the total number of articles published in the two previous years. An impact factor of 1.0 means that, on average, the articles published one or two year ago have been cited one time. The 5-year journal impact factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past five years have been cited in the calculated year. It is calculated by dividing the number of citations received in the calculated year by the total number of articles published in the five previous years. Note that because of the limitation of a specific time frame, this index may not reflect positively on some disciplines or on new titles. Table 3.2 lists all the journals ranked by yearly impact factor.

Table 3.2: All Journals in MyCite Ranked by Yearly Impact Factor

No. Journals 5-Year Impact

Factor Yearly Impact

Factor

1 Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication 0.576 0.800 2 Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 0.214 0.450 3 GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 0.393 0.353 4 International Food Research Journal 0.263 0.283 5 International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 0.317 0.267 6 Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 0.163 0.190 7 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies 0.130 0.190 8 Malaysian Journal of Nutrition 0.217 0.145 9 Sepilok Bulletin 0.091 0.118

10 Malaysian Journal of Microbiology 0.087 0.111 11 Journal of Modern Languages 0.111 0.111 12 Journal of Engineering Science and Technology 0.118 0.101 13 International Journal of Economics and Management 0.045 0.093 14 Geografia: Malaysian Journal of Society & Space 0.0.75 0.093 15 English Teacher 0.174 0.091 16 Malaysian Journal of Computer Science 0.030 0.083 17 Matematika 0.056 0.081 18 Journal of Tropical Forest Science 0.070 0.081 19 Journal of Information and Communication Technology 0.031 0.071 20 International Journal of Management Studies 0.059 0.071 21 Journal of Fundamental Sciences (currently Mal. J. Fund. Appl. Sci.) 0.036 0.070 22 Engineering e-Transaction 0.048 0.069 23 International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 0.027 0.063 24 Malaysian Journal of Soil Science 0.059 0.059 25 Asian Journal of Business and Accounting 0.063 0.059 26 Asian Journal of University Education 0.033 0.056 27 Tropical Biomedicine 0.078 0.055 28 Journal of Oil Palm Research 0.045 0.053 29 Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences 0.043 0.052 30 Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 0.043 0.050 31 Malaysian Applied Biology Journal 0.031 0.048 32 Sains Malaysiana 0.034 0.046 33 Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance 0.055 0.043 34 Medical Journal of Malaysia 0.051 0.043

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35 Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society 0.028 0.039 36 Jurnal Syariah 0.050 0.038 37 International Journal of Business and Society 0.031 0.038 38 Malaysian Journal of Chemistry 0.019 0.037 39 Jurnal Pengajian Media Malaysia 0.016 0.034 40 e-Bangi Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 0.101 0.031 41 Medicine & Health 0.022 0.029 42 Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia 0.038 0.029 43 Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities 0.025 0.029 44 Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences 0.050 0.028 45 Tropical Life Sciences Research (formerly Journal of Bioscience) 0.011 0.025 46 ASM Science Journal 0.012 0.023 47 Jurnal Pendidikan Malaysia (Mal. J. Educ.) (formerly Jurnal Pendidikan) 0.028 0.023 48 Malaysian Journal of Pathology 0.010 0.022 49 Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry 0.009 0.021 50 ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry 0.023 0.020 51 SARI: Jurnal Alam dan Tamaddun Melayu 0.021 0.020 52 Akademika Jurnal Sains Kemasyarakatan dan Kemanusiaan 0.011 0.019 53 Journal of Nuclear and Related Technologies 0.007 0.015 54 Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science 0.013 0.013 55 Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology 0.012 0.013 56 Malaysian Journal of Science 0.016 0.013 57 Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse 0.000 0.000 58 Tirai Panggung 0.000 0.000 59 SARJANA 0.000 0.000 60 Malaysian Polymer Journal 0.000 0.000 61 Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 0.000 0.000 62 Malaysian Journal of Sport Science and Recreation 0.000 0.000 63 Malaysian Journal of Learning & Instruction 0.029 0.000 64 Malaysian Journal of ELT Research 0.034 0.000 65 Malaysian Journal of Civil Engineering 0.032 0.000 66 Malaysian Journal of Analytical Sciences 0.053 0.000 67 Malaysian Family Physician 0.020 0.000 68 Malaysian Accounting Review 0.059 0.000 69 Labuan e-Journal of Muamalat and Society 0.000 0.000 70 Kemanusiaan: Asian Journal of Humanities (formerly Jurnal Ilmu

Kemanusiaan) 0.000 0.000

71 Kajian Malaysia (Journal of Malaysian Studies) 0.027 0.000 72 Jurnal Pengurusan 0.027 0.000 73 Jurnal Kemanusiaan 0.014 0.000 74 Jurnal Fizik Malaysia 0.022 0.000 75 Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia 0.000 0.000 76 Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering 0.000 0.000 77 Journal of Techno-Social 0.000 0.000 78 Journal of Technical Education and Training 0.000 0.000 79 Journal of Sustainability Science and Management 0.000 0.000 80 Journal Science and Technology 0.000 0.000 81 Journal of Physical Science 0.012 0.000 82 Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology 0.000 0.000 83 Journal of Mechanical Engineering 0.000 0.000 84 Journal of International Studies 0.000 0.000 85 Journal of Human Capital Development 0.000 0.000 86 Journal of Design and Built Environment 0.026 0.000 87 Journal of Construction in Developing Countries 0.080 0.000 88 Journal of Al-Tamaddun 0.000 0.000 89 Jebat: Malaysian Journal of History, Politics and Strategic Studies 0.000 0.000 90 JATI: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 0.000 0.000 91 International Medical Journal Malaysia 0.000 0.000 92 International Journal of West Asian Studies 0.000 0.000

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93 International Journal of Nanoelectronics and Materials 0.000 0.000 94 International Journal of Integrated Engineering 0.000 0.000 95 International Journal of Institutions and Economies 0.000 0.000 96 International Journal of Banking and Finance 0.000 0.000 97 International e-Journal of Science, Medicine & Education 0.024 0.000 98 Intellectual Discourse 0.000 0.000 99 IIUM Engineering Journal 0.000 0.000

100 Geoinformation Science Journal 0.000 0.000 101 Education in Medicine Journal 0.000 0.000 102 Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia 0.035 0.000 103 Buletin Persatuan Genetik Malaysia 0.000 0.000 104 Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal 0.015 0.000 105 Asiatic IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 0.000 0.000 106 Asian Academy of Management Journal 0.017 0.000 107 Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal 0.067 0.000 108 Asia Pacific Journal of Educators and Education (formerly Jurnal

Pendidik dan Pendidikan) 0.000 0.000

109 ASEAN Journal of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education 0.000 0.000 110 Archives of Orofacial Sciences 0.000 0.000 111 Annals of Dentistry 0.000 0.000 112 Al-Bayan Journal of Al-Quran & al-Hadith 0.000 0.000

There are a total of 60 journals indexed that fall within the category of Science,

Technology, Engineering and Medicine related and out of this total only 34 has garnered

an impact factor score (Table 3.3). A number of the 34 journals are also those indexed by

either Scopus and/or WoS. This may infer that those journals are performing well within

Malaysia also as well internationally. In certain cases, a journal may have a 5-year impact

factor score but did not obtain any score in the yearly impact factor because the journal

may have failed to publish complete issues in the last 2 recent years (delinquent), making

it impossible to calculate their yearly impact factor score. There are journals that obtain

yearly impact factor scores but fail to do in the 5-year impact factor and this may be due

to inadequate coverage or the journal is fairly new.

In the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines there are 52 journals listed in this

category (Table 3.4) and out of this only 22 (42%) obtained yearly impact factor scores.

The highest yearly impact factor score is 0.8 which is higher than the highest yearly

impact factor in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine fields (0.285). Only

one journal under this category is indexed simultaneously in WoS and Scopus (Malaysian

Journal of Library & Information Science). Overall, Table 3.3 indicates that the Arts,

Humanities and the Social Sciences journals are performing better within Malaysia. This

infer that at the national level these Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences journals

which are not covered by WoS or Scopus are important and are influential enough locally

for their articles to be cited.

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Table 3.3: Journals in Science, Technology, Engineering & Medicine Discipline Ranked by Yearly Impact Factor

No. Journals Total

Articles (5 yrs)

Total Articles (2 yrs)

Total Citations

(5 yrs)

Total Citations

(2 yrs)

5-Year Impact Factor

Yearly Impact Factor

h-index

1. 1 International Food Research Journal 240 180 63 51 0.263 0.283 5 2. International Journal of Mechanical and

Materials Engineering 142 90 45 24 0.317 0.267 3

3. Malaysian Journal of Nutrition 115 62 25 9 0.217 0.145 6 4. Sepilok Bulletin 55 17 5 2 0.091 0.118 3 5. Malaysian Journal of Microbiology 104 54 9 6 0.087 0.111 2 6. Journal of Engineering Science and

Technology 153 79 18 8 0.118 0.101 2

7. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science 67 24 2 2 0.030 0.083 2 8. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 214 99 15 8 0.070 0.081 2 9. Matematika 90 37 5 3 0.056 0.081 2 10. Journal of Information and

Communication Technology 32 14 1 1 0.031 0.071 1

11. Journal of Fundamental Sciences (currently Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences)

83 43 3 3 0.036 0.070 1

12. Engineering e-Transaction 42 29 2 2 0.048 0.069 2 13. Malaysian Journal of Soil Science 34 17 2 1 0.059 0.059 1 14. Tropical Biomedicine 230 127 18 7 0.078 0.055 4 15. Journal of Oil Palm Research 132 38 6 2 0.045 0.053 3 16. Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences 163 77 7 4 0.043 0.052 3 17. Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular

Biology and Biotechnology 117 80 5 4 0.043 0.050 2

18. Malaysian Applied Biology Journal 97 42 3 2 0.031 0.048 1 19. Sains Malaysiana 409 281 14 13 0.034 0.046 2 20. Medical Journal of Malaysia 531 163 27 7 0.051 0.043 5 21. Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical

Sciences Society 144 77 4 3 0.028 0.039 2

22. Malaysian Journal of Chemistry 54 27 1 1 0.019 0.037 1 23. Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia 80 34 3 1 0.038 0.029 1 24. Medicine & Health 90 34 2 1 0.022 0.029 1 25. Malaysian Journal of Mathematical

Sciences 80 36 4 1 0.050 0.028 1

26. Tropical Life Sciences Research (formerly Journal of Bioscience)

91 40 1 1 0.011 0.025 2

27. ASM Science Journal 84 43 1 1 0.012 0.023 1 28. Malaysian Journal of Pathology 100 46 1 1 0.010 0.022 2 29. Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry 107 48 1 1 0.009 0.021 2 30. ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry 87 49 2 1 0.023 0.020 2 31. Journal of Nuclear and Related

Technologies 139 68 1 1 0.007 0.015 1

32. Malaysian Journal of Science 192 79 3 1 0.016 0.013 2 33. Pertanika Journal of Science &

Technology 85 79 1 1 0.012 0.013 1

34. Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science

75 75 1 1 0.013 0.013 1

35. Annals of Dentistry 42 12 0 0 0.000 0.000 1 36. Archives of Orofacial Sciences 59 24 0 0 0.000 0.000 2 37. Biomedical Imaging and Intervention

Journal 206 64 3 0 0.015 0.000 1

38. Buletin Persatuan Genetik Malaysia 28 17 0 0 0.000 0.000 1 39. Bulletin of the Geological Society of

Malaysia 57 33 2 0 0.035 0.000 1

40. Education in Medicine Journal 6 6 0 0 0.000 0.000 0 41. Geoinformation Science Journal 24 24 0 0 0.000 0.000 0 42. IIUM Engineering Journal 55 26 0 0 0.000 0.000 0 43. International e-Journal of Science,

Medicine & Education 42 20 1 0 0.024 0.000 1

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44. International Journal of Integrated Engineering

54 54 0 0 0.000 0.000 0

45. International Journal of Nanoelectronics and Materials

50 40 0 0 0.000 0.000 1

46. International Medical Journal Malaysia 155 50 0 0 0.000 0.000 1 47. Journal of Construction in Developing

Countries 50 20 4 0 0.080 0.000 1

48. Journal of Design and Built Environment 38 17 1 0 0.026 0.000 1 49. Journal of Mechanical Engineering 4 4 0 0 0.000 0.000 0 50. Journal of Mechanical Engineering and

Technology 21 21 0 0 0.000 0.000 0

51. Journal of Physical Science 84 33 1 0 0.012 0.000 1 52. Journal of Science and Technology 25 25 0 0 0.000 0.000 0 53. Journal of Sustainability Science and

Management 68 55 0 0 0.000 0.000 2

54. Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering

30 30 0 0 0.000 0.000 0

55. Jurnal Fizik Malaysia 46 13 1 0 0.022 0.000 1 56. Malaysian Family Physician 102 46 2 0 0.020 0.000 1 57. Malaysian Journal of Analytical Sciences 227 39 12 0 0.053 0.000 2 58. Malaysian Journal of Civil Engineering 62 36 2 0 0.032 0.000 2 59. Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 112 67 0 0 0.000 0.000 1 60. Malaysian Polymer Journal 59 36 0 0 0.000 0.000 1

Table 3.4: Journals in the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences Discipline Ranked by Yearly Impact Factor

No. Journals Total

Articles Total

Articles Total

Citations Total

Citations 5-Year Impact Factor

Yearly Impact Factor

h-index

(5 yrs) (2 yrs) (5 yrs) (2 yrs)

1. Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication

33 15 19 12 0.576 0.8 2

2. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 42 20 9 9 0.214 0.45 3 3. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies 56 34 22 12 0.393 0.353 4 4. 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English

Language Studies 54 21 7 4 0.13 0.19 2

5. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science

86 42 14 8 0.163 0.19 4

6. Journal of Modern Languages 9 9 1 1 0.111 0.111 1 7. Geografia: Malaysian Journal of Society & Space 67 43 5 4 0.0.75 0.093 2 8. International Journal of Economics and

Management 89 43 4 4 0.045 0.093 2

9. English Teacher 46 22 8 2 0.174 0.091 2 10. International Journal of Management Studies 136 56 8 4 0.059 0.071 2 11. International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 37 16 1 1 0.027 0.063 1 12. Asian Journal of Business and Accounting 32 17 2 1 0.063 0.059 1 13. Asian Journal of University Education 60 18 2 1 0.033 0.056 1 14. Asian Academy of Management Journal of

Accounting and Finance 55 23 3 1 0.055 0.043 2

15. International Journal of Business and Society 65 26 2 1 0.031 0.038 1 16. Jurnal Syariah 120 52 6 2 0.05 0.038 1 17. Jurnal Pengajian Media Malaysia 61 29 1 1 0.016 0.034 1 18. e-Bangi Journal of Social Sciences and

Humanities 89 32 9 1 0.101 0.031 3

19. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities

122 70 3 2 0.025 0.029 1

20. Jurnal Pendidikan Malaysia (Malaysian Journal of Education) (formerly Jurnal Pendidikan)

72 44 2 1 0.028 0.023 1

21. SARI: Jurnal Alam dan Tamaddun Melayu 95 51 2 1 0.021 0.02 1 22. Akademika Jurnal Sains Kemasyarakatan dan

Kemanusiaan 88 53 1 1 0.011 0.019 1

23. Al-Bayan Journal of Al-Quran & al-Hadith 46 20 0 0 0 0 0

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24. ASEAN Journal of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education

24 24 0 0 0 0 0

25. Asia Pacific Journal of Educators and Education (formerly Jurnal Pendidik dan Pendidikan)

50 21 0 0 0 0 1

26. Asian Academy of Management Journal 58 23 1 0 0.017 0 1 27. Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal 30 12 2 0 0.067 0 1 28. Asiatic IIUM Journal of English Language and

Literature 104 57 0 0 0 0 1

29. Intellectual Discourse 23 23 0 0 0 0 0 30. International Journal of Banking and Finance 46 22 0 0 0 0 0 31. International Journal of Institutions and

Economies 23 23 0 0 0 0 0

32. International Journal of West Asian Studies 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 33. JATI: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 71 27 0 0 0 0 1 34. Jebat: Malaysian Journal of History, Politics and

Strategic Studies 30 12 0 0 0 0 1

35. Journal of Al-Tamaddun 33 22 0 0 0 0 0 36. Journal of Human Capital Development 35 35 0 0 0 0 0 37. Journal of International Studies 42 16 0 0 0 0 0 38. Journal of Technical Education and Training 26 26 0 0 0 0 1 39. Journal of Techno-Social 18 18 0 0 0 0 0 40. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia 40 20 0 0 0 0 1 41. Jurnal Kemanusiaan 74 29 1 0 0.014 0 1 42. Jurnal Pengurusan 37 20 1 0 0.027 0 2 43. Kajian Malaysia (Journal of Malaysian Studies) 37 16 1 0 0.027 0 1 44. Kemanusiaan The Asian Journal of Humanities

(formerly Jurnal Ilmu Kemanusiaan) 28 11 0 0 0 0 0

45. Labuan e-Journal of Muamalat and Society 27 14 0 0 0 0 0 46. Malaysian Accounting Review 68 29 4 0 0.059 0 2 47. Malaysian Journal of ELT Research 29 13 1 0 0.034 0 1 48. Malaysian Journal of Learning & Instruction 34 14 1 0 0.029 0 1 49. Malaysian Journal of Sport Science and

Recreation 32 16 0 0 0 0 0

50. SARJANA 37 30 0 0 0 0 0 51. Tirai Panggung 30 17 0 0 0 0 0 52. Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse 18 4 0 0 0 0 0

3.3. Ranking of Journals by Total Citations In the context of MyCite, when a journal gets a citation count, it infers that the

articles that the journal publishes are being cited by other articles in other

journals indexed in MyCite. It does not include citations that the journal gets in

WoS, Scopus or Google Scholar. Citations is used as a measure of usage. Table 3.5

lists the journals ranked by total citations received by articles published by the

journal.

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Table 3.5: Journals in MyCite Ranked by Total Citations

No. Journals Total Citations

(5 years) Total Citations

(2 years)

1 International Food Research Journal 63 51 2 International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering 45 24 3 Sains Malaysiana 14 13 4 Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication 19 12 5 GEAM Online Journal of Language Studies 22 12 6 Malaysian Journal of Nutrition 25 9 7 Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 9 9 8 Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 14 8 9 Journal of Tropical Forest Science 15 8

10 Journal of Engineering Science and Technology 18 8 11 Tropical Biomedicine 18 7 12 Medical Journal of Malaysia 27 7 13 Malaysian Journal of Microbiology 9 6 14 Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences 7 4 15 International Journal of Management Studies 8 4 16 International Journal of Economics and Management 4 4 17 Geografia: Malaysian Journal of Society & Space 5 4 18 Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 5 4 19 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies 7 4 20 Matematika 5 3 21 Journal of Fundamental Sciences (currently Malaysian J. of Fund and Appl. Sci.) 3 3 22 Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society 4 3 23 Sepilok Bulletin 5 2 24 Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities 3 2 25 Malaysian Journal of Computer Science 2 2 26 Malaysian Applied Biology Journal 3 2 27 Jurnal Syariah 6 2 28 Journal of Oil Palm Research 6 2 29 English Teacher 8 2 30 Engineering e-Transaction 2 2 31 Tropical Life Sciences Research (formerly Journal of Bioscience) 1 1 32 SARI: Jurnal Alam dan Tamaddun Melayu 2 1 33 Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science 1 1 34 Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology 1 1 35 Medicine & Health 2 1 36 Malaysian Journal of Soil Science 2 1 37 Malaysian Journal of Science 3 1 38 Malaysian Journal of Psychiatry 1 1 39 Malaysian Journal of Pathology 1 1 40 Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences 4 1 41 Malaysian Journal of Chemistry 1 1 42 Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia 3 1 43 Jurnal Pengajian Media Malaysia 1 1 44 Jurnal Pendidikan Malaysia (Malaysian J. of Educ.) (formerly Jurnal Pendidikan) 2 1 45 Journal of Nuclear and Related Technologies 1 1 46 Journal of Modern Languages 1 1 47 Journal of Information and Communication Technology 1 1 48 International Journal of Business and Society 2 1 49 International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 1 1 50 e-Bangi Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 9 1 51 ASM Science Journal 1 1 52 Asian Journal of University Education 2 1 53 Asian Journal of Business and Accounting 2 1 54 Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance 3 1

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55 ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry 2 1 56 Akademika Jurnal Sains Kemasyarakatan dan Kemanusiaan 1 1 57 Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse 0 0 58 Tirai Panggung 0 0 59 SARJANA 0 0 60 Malaysian Polymer Journal 0 0 61 Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 0 0 62 Malaysian Journal of Sport Science and Recreation 0 0 63 Malaysian Journal of Learning & Instruction 1 0 64 Malaysian Journal of ELT Research 1 0 65 Malaysian Journal of Civil Engineering 2 0 66 Malaysian Journal of Analytical Sciences 12 0 67 Malaysian Family Physician 2 0 68 Malaysian Accounting Review 4 0 69 Labuan e-Journal of Muamalat and Society 0 0 70 Kemanusiaan Asian Journal of Humanities (formerly Jurnal Ilmu Kemanusiaan) 0 0 71 Kajian Malaysia (Journal of Malaysian Studies) 1 0 72 Jurnal Pengurusan 1 0 73 Jurnal Kemanusiaan 1 0 74 Jurnal Fizik Malaysia 1 0 75 Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia 0 0 76 Journal of of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering 0 0 77 Journal of Techno-Social 0 0 78 Journal of Technical Education and Training 0 0 79 Journal of Sustainability Science and Management 0 0 80 Journal of Science and Technology 0 0 81 Journal of Physical Science 1 0 82 Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology 0 0 83 Journal of Mechanical Engineering 0 0 84 Journal of International Studies 0 0 85 Journal of Human Capital Development 0 0 86 Journal of Design and Built Environment 1 0 87 Journal of Construction in Developing Countries 4 0 88 Journal of Al-Tamaddun 0 0 89 Jebat: Malaysian Journal of History, Politics and Strategic Studies 0 0 90 JATI – Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 0 0 91 International Medical Journal Malaysia 0 0 92 International Journal of West Asian Studies 0 0 93 International Journal of Nanoelectronics and Materials 0 0 94 International Journal of Integrated Engineering 0 0 95 International Journal of Institutions and Economies 0 0 96 International Journal of Banking and Finance 0 0 97 International e-Journal of Science, Medicine & Education 1 0 98 Intellectual Discourse 0 0 99 IIUM Engineering Journal 0 0

100 Geoinformation Science Journal 0 0 101 Education in Medicine Journal 0 0 102 Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia 2 0 103 Buletin Persatuan Genetik Malaysia 0 0 104 Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal 3 0 105 Asiatic IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 0 0 106 Asian Academy of Management Journal 1 0 107 Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal 2 0 108 Asia Pacific Journal of Educators & Education (formerly Jurnal Pendidik & Pendidikan) 0 0 109 ASEAN Journal of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education 0 0 110 Archives of Orofacial Sciences 0 0 111 Annals of Dentistry 0 0 112 Al-Bayan Journal of Al-Quran & al-Hadith 0 0

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3.4. Top 20 Authors Ranked by Total Publications and Total Citations The productive authors here refers to the number of articles that an author has

published in journals that are indexed only in MyCite. Therefore, it does not

reflect an author’s total publications but rather his/her publication in Malaysian

journals and further limited to those that have been indexed in MyCite. Table 3.6

indicates that R. Son from Universiti Putra Malaysia publishes the highest number

of articles in MyCite. Table 3.7 reveals the top 20 authors ranked by the number

of citations received.

Table 3.6 : Top 20 Authors Ranked by Total Publications in MyCite

No. Authors Total

Publications Total

Citations h-index Affiliation

1 Son, R. 59 33 4 UPM 2 Yap, C.K. 52 11 2 UPM 3 Zainab, A.N. 42 19 3 UM 4 Lee, H.L. 36 13 2 IMR 5 Sherina, M.S. 36 24 3 UPM 6 Zaini Hamzah 36 4 1 UiTM 9 Halim, S.A. 36 0 0 UPM 7 Abdullah, S. 34 5 1 UKM 8 Jamaluddin Md. Jahi 32 2 1 UKM

10 Abdul Samad Hadi 29 3 1 UKM 11 Tan, S.G. 29 6 1 UPM 12 Ahmad Saat 28 3 1 UiTM 13 Abu Hassan Shaari Mohd Nor 28 3 1 UKM 14 Zainal Ariffin Ahmad 27 1 1 USM 15 Abdul Aziz Jemain 27 3 1 UKM 16 Abdul Hadi Harman Shah 26 4 1 UKM 17 Katiman Rostam 25 5 1 UKM 18 Saidur, R. 25 22 3 UM 19 Zamri Mahamod 25 5 1 UKM 20 Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff 25 4 2 USM

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Table 3.7: Top 20 Authors Ranked by Total Citations in MyCite

No. Authors Total Citations

Total Publications

h-index Affiliation

1 Son, R. 33 59 4 UPM

2 Zawiah, H. 28 10 4 UKM

3 Ismail, M.N. 27 16 4 UKM

4 Masjuki, H.H. 26 23 3 UM

5 Sherina, M.S. 24 36 3 UPM

6 Zalilah Mohd. Sharif 24 23 3 UPM

7 Nishibuchi, M. 22 19 4 UTAR

8 Saidur, R. 22 25 3 UM

9 Chee, S.S. 21 6 3 UKM

10 Ng, K.K. 21 4 3 Kelloggs Asia Marketing

11 Cheah, Y.K. 20 20 3 UPM

12 Tunung, R. 20 20 4 UPM

13 Chai, L.C. 19 16 3 UM

14 Ghazali, F.M. 19 13 4 UPM

15 Hasanuzzaman, M. 19 10 3 UM

16 Zainab, A.N. 19 42 3 UM

17 Nakaguchi, Y. 18 10 3 UTAR

18 Ding, L.M. 17 4 3 Hospital Kuala Lumpur

19 Lim, T.O. 17 5 3 Hospital Kuala Lumpur

20 Maimunah, A.H. 17 5 3 Institute for Public Health

3.5 Top 20 Institutions Ranked by Total Publications in MyCite Institutions in Malaysia are often required to show their performance in research and

development and this results in a healthy competition to secure research grants, attract

and retain high-performing staff and the nurturing of outstanding research students. Data

generated from MyCite allows institutions to gauge their performance in terms of

productivity in publishing their research results in journals published in Malaysia. As

expected the universities dominated with the exception of Malaysian Palm Oil Board,

Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Institute for Medical Research, Hospital Kuala Lumpur

and Malaysian Nuclear Agency, which are government-based agencies. Again, we noted

that the reception from the universities with regard to getting their journals indexed in

MyCite is very encouraging and MCC hopes to see such responses amongst publishers in

the government sectors as well as the professional associations.

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Figure 3.1: Top 20 Institutions Ranked by Total Publications in MyCite

Total Publications Total Citations H-Index

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 3078 341 5

University of Malaya 2112 197 4

Universiti Putra Malaysia 1907 207 5

Universiti Sains Malaysia 1588 153 5

Universiti Teknologi MARA 738 82 4

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 681 36 2

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Universiti Malaysia Sabah 329 22 2

Universiti Utara Malaysia 298 14 1

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak 272 21 2

Malaysian Palm Oil Board 245 45 3

UKM Medical Centre 235 8 1

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu 227 14 1

International Medical University 219 21 2

Institute for Medical Research 182 52 4

Universiti Tun Hussein Onn 181 6 1

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Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka 153 1 1

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Figure 3.2: Top 10 Country-based Works Ranked by Total Publications in 2006 - 2010

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Malaysia 1156 1368 1567 1805 2087 7983

India 55 71 73 116 181 496

Australia 34 47 68 70 72 291

United Kingdom 44 56 43 70 53 266

United States 25 33 63 52 67 240

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4. Discussion and Conclusion

There are about 464 scholarly journals published in Malaysia and a Master list is being maintained at the Malaysian Abstracting and Indexing System (MyAIS) (http://myais.fsktm.um.edu.my). A higher number of the journals were published in the 2000s, which may be due to the emphasis by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia on publishing quality journals and for local universities to show the output of researches undertaken in a scholarly channel, which are visible and tangible. This resulted in an increase in journal publications by the universities especially those designated as research universities in Malaysia. Even though the number of journal publications is increasing, the number that obtained indexation status in international citation indexes such as the WoS and Scopus remain small. To date there are 12 journal titles, which WoS has categorized as being published by publishers with Malaysian addresses. However, three of the titles are actually published in Malaysia for international associations. These titles are, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, which is published at the University of Malaya by Sage for the Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health, Asian Myrmecology, currently published by Universiti Malaysia Sabah for the International Network for the Study of Asian Ants, and Neurology Asia, published at the University of Malaya Medical Centre for the Asean Neurological Association. This is a healthy indication that Malaysia has been recognized by international professional bodies as having good infrastructure to support and sustain publishing activities. A unique characteristic about Malaysian scholarly journals is the active participation by professional societies and government research agencies. The latter has a good track record of publishing quality journals, which have attained indexation in WoS and/or Scopus, such the Journal of Oil Palm Research by Malaysian Palm Oil Board and Journal of Tropical Forest Science by the Forest Research Institute Malaysia. The number of Malaysian journals that are indexed in Scopus is 53. A large majority of journals in the medical related fields are covered by Scopus even though none of the medical journals (except Neurology Asia) is indexed in WoS. Even though journals such as the Medical Journal of Malaysia, received high citations by journals indexed in WoS it is not currently covered by this database.3 Scopus also covers more Malaysian Journals in the Social Sciences.

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The data set retrieved from MyCite for this report comprises 112 journals, which produces 17,292 publications. The highest percentage of publications came from the journals in the sciences (6,406, 37%), followed by the Medical and Health Sciences (4,669, 27%), Social Sciences (2,662, 15.4%), and the Arts and Humanities (1,985, 11.5%). The least percentage of publications came from the field of Engineering and Technology (1,570, 9.1%). Even though the highest number of journals are published from the Social Sciences (31 titles) the number of articles published in each issue tended to be fewer in numbers compared to journals in the Sciences and Medical related fields. The majority of the journals currently indexed by MyCite are published by the universities (75%) whilst access to journal titles from the professional associations and government agencies still seems elusive. This may be due to unawareness about MyCite as an avenue for indexation or the poor accessibility of journals which are still only in print. In some instances, even the publishers themselves could not locate past issues and this will create problems when counting for indices such as impact factor, citations and h-index. With the insistence of providing at least the past 2-years to 5-years issues from the calculating year, MyCite has been able to produce some good indicators to show the performance of Malaysian journals. As a result journal publishers would be able to gauge their journal’s performances in terms of their h-index, the total citations they obtain, their impact factor in a 2-year and 5-year window and their immediacy index indicating how early articles they publish can garner citations. It is obvious that a longer period of coverage in MyCite would give a journal good h-index score. This means publishers should give priority to making certain that their journal is fully covered by MyCite. Also, publishers should include the Malaysian Citation Centre in their list of recipients of their new issues because the failure to do so would result in problems when calculating their bibliometric indices. When journals in MyCite are ranked by yearly impact factor it is found that journals in the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences are performing well in Malaysia. In other words in Malaysia the articles published by the journals in these fields are being cited and used. Therefore, in Malaysia they have some influence in shaping other researches. This is exemplified by Jurnal Komunikasi, Malaysian Journal of Communication which obtained the highest yearly impact factor of 0.800, followed by Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies and GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies. The results infer that MyCite has been able to provide the supportive evidence, which shows the importance of journals in the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences fields even though these journals are poorly covered by international indexing databases.

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MyCite is also able to indicate the most active authors who contributed to Malaysian journals as well as those who received citations in terms of institutional performance, the five research universities are active in publishing journals and in ensuring that their journals are made visible either internationally through WoS and Scopus and also nationally through MyCite. A total of 2217 articles are either wholly contributed or co-authored by foreign authors, especially from India, Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia and Thailand. This indicates that Malaysian journals have the capacity to support more regional-based contributions. In this report the publication and citation indicators are used to provide an overview of Malaysia’s journal productivity and citedness. This is however, limited to only the 112 journals that are being indexed in MyCite. For those journals, it is possible to gauge not only each journal’s publication and citation performances but also performance at both author and institutional levels. We hope that this report will motivate more journal publishers to request for indexation in order to improve the visibility of the journals they publish as well as support the higher motivation to enriching the national heritage of research content.

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6. Acknowledgement

The Malaysian Citation Centre acknowledges the allocation of an UMRG Grant (RG057 11ICT) from the University of Malaya for the period 1 September 2011 to 31 August 2012, which has made the reporting of Chapter 1 and 2 of this report possible. We also acknowledge the team at MCC who diligently extracted and compiled the data from MyCite in order to produce this report.

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7: Subject Categories

Fields of Categorization Used in MyCite

Arts and Humanities

History

Language and Linguistics

Literature

Performing Arts

Philosophy

Religion

Visual Arts

Engineering and Technology

Architecture and Design

Computer Sciences

Engineering

Medical and Health Sciences

Dentistry

Immunology and Microbiology

Medicine

Neuroscience

Nursing

Nutrition

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

Biological Sciences

Chemistry

Earth Sciences

Environmental Sciences

Life Sciences

Mathematics and Statistics

Physics

Space Sciences

Social Sciences

Anthropology

Archaeology

Area Studies

Business and Administration

Cultural and Ethnic Studies

Economics and Finance

Education & Educational Research

Gender studies

Geography

Law

Library & Information Science

Media and Communication

Political Science

Psychology

Sociology

Sports Sciences