1. Peranan Pusat Sitasi Malaysia = The role of Malaysian Citation Centre http://mcc.um.edu.my/en/ Prof.Madya Dr Abrizah Abdullah Timb. Pengarah, Pusat Sitasi Malaysia BENGKEL EDITOR JURNAL MALAYSIA Memperkasakan Jurnal Malaysia : Empowering Malaysian Journals

2. Scope of presentation Issues to access Malaysian scholarly journals Scholarly journal audit exercise What does MCC do? MCC’s products and services ◦MyCite & MyJurnal ◦Challenges & prospect Implication to stakeholders: journal editors, researchers, librarians.

3. I will start by highlighting problems expressed by stakeholders of scholarly journal publishing which was extracted from workshops, seminars, conferences and conversations.

4. Not getting enough articles to publish Not getting quality articles Not supported with clerical assistants Don’t know whether people can easily access my journal Don’t know who is citing articles I publish Don’t know how to get my journal indexed Does my journal has an impact in Malaysia How can I prove to management that my journal has quality? Don’t know the best practices for e-journal publishing Not getting enough articles to publish Not getting quality articles Not supported with clerical assistants Don’t know whether people can easily access my journal Don’t know who is citing articles I publish Don’t know how to get my journal indexed Does my journal has an impact in Malaysia How can I prove to management that my journal has quality? Don’t know the best practices for e-journal publishing Problems expressed by journal publishers

5. Where / how to access Malaysian journals in my field? Is there an online repository of Malaysian journals? Are the journals refereed? What are IF of the journal? What is journal’s frequency? How can I get infor about instructions to authors? Is there an e-version of a journal? Can I submit online? Who is citing my articles in Malaysian journals? What is my h index in Malaysia? Are Malaysian journals indexed by ISI, Scopus or any indexes? Where / how to access Malaysian journals in my field? Is there an online repository of Malaysian journals? Are the journals refereed? What are IF of the journal? What is journal’s frequency? How can I get infor about instructions to authors? Is there an e-version of a journal? Can I submit online? Who is citing my articles in Malaysian journals? What is my h index in Malaysia? Are Malaysian journals indexed by ISI, Scopus or any indexes? Problems expressed by authors, researchers

6. Problems expressed by information professionals/ librarians Is there a master list of Malaysian journals? Is the list available online? Who is responsible for maintaining such a list? How can I locate Malaysian journals to purchase or subscribe for the library? How can I help show my university the performance of our own journals? The total cites, h index? Is there a master list of Malaysian journals? Is the list available online? Who is responsible for maintaining such a list? How can I locate Malaysian journals to purchase or subscribe for the library? How can I help show my university the performance of our own journals? The total cites, h index?

7. Indexation by MyAIS

8. Results of our journal audit Results of our journal audit ( Zainab, A.N., Sanni, S.A., Edzan, N.N. & Koh, A.P. 2012. Auditing scholarly journals published in Malaysia and assessing their visibility. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, Vol. 17. no. 1, April: 65-92

9. Journals by Type of Publishers Publishers No of Journals Percentage Government9620.6 Societies10422.4 Universities25755.5 Private71.5 TOTAL464100.0

10. Journals by broad disciplines Broad fields No of journals Percentage Arts, humanities, social sciences (AHSS) 26557.1 Sciences, technology, engineering, medicine (STEM) 19942.9 TOTAL464100.0

11. Frequency & format FrequencyNo of journalsPercentage Annual25955.8 Bi-annual16736.0 Tri-annual102.2 Quarterly255.4 >4 issues30.6 TOTAL464100.0 FormatNo of journalsPercentage Print27262.9 Hybrid14531.3 Online275.8 TOTAL464100.0

12. Visibility:Malaysian journals in WoS (n=9) NoTitleJCR 2011 JIF Scimago Journal Rank 2011 Quartile S=Scopus, W=WoS 1Al-Shajarah N/A 2Bul Mal Math Sci Soc 0.804 (30/33)0.053Q4(W), Q2 (S) 3J Oil Palm Res 0.237 (116/128)-Q4 (W) 4J Rubber Res 0.297 (75/78)0.031Q4 (W); Q3 (S) 5J Trop Forest Sci 0.467 (44/59)0.035Q3 (W); Q2 (S) 6Mal J Comp Sci 0.167 (107/111)0.030Q4 (W) Q3 (S) 7Mal J Lib Infor Sci 0.381 (60/83)0.027Q3 (W) Q3 (S) 8Sains Malaysiana 0.268 (39/55)0.031Q3 (W); Q3 (S) 9Trop Biomed 0.804 (30/33; 15/20) 0.053Q4 (W); Q3 (S)

13. Malaysian Journals in WoS & Scopus by Publisher Type Publishers No of Journals Percentage of 464 Government71.5 Societies153.2 Universities296.2 Private00 TOTAL5110.9%

14. Malaysian Journals in WoS & Scopus by Broad Fields (10.9%) Broad fieldsNo. of journals Percentage Science1835.3 Medicine1019.6 Engineering47.8 Arts, humanities59.8 Social sciences1019.6 Miscellaneous47.8 TOTAL51100.00

15. Journals in WoS & Scopus by Universities (6.2% of total) UniversitiesScopusWoSTotal UIA-11 UKM51*5 UM72*7 UNIMAS1-1 UMT1-1 UPM7-7 USM61*6 Taylors UC1-1 TOTAL28529

16. Result MOHE established Malaysian Citation Centre in February 2011 to improve the situation. Location: FCSIT, University of Malaya Main KPI at UM: - Hire contract staff - Develop MyCite + other support system - Migrate data from MyAIS (12000 records) - Launch MyCite ASAP (22 May 2012, KLIA Pan Pacific)

17. About MCC..what MOHE aspires The setting up of MCC is in line with the Ministry of Higher Education's (MOHE) aspiration specifically and the government of Malaysia in general to improve Malaysian university ranking by improving the quality of Malaysian publications especially scholarly journals. MCC would be the one-stop centre that would help internationalize Malaysian journal publications, making their contents accessible globally and indexed locally, as well as proposing their indexation by international indexing agencies such as Scopus and the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Web of Science databases.

18. Responsibilities Collect published articles and citations for Malaysian scholarly journals and develop search and retrieval tools in the form of sustainable citation index database. Make available the Malaysian journal impact factors on a yearly basis. Conduct bibliometric and scientometric studies in related areas and publish articles regularly in national and international journals. Provide academic services as well as training and consultancy on how to improve the quality of Malaysian journals. Seek partnership with related organizations to make Malaysian journals more visible locally, regionally and internationally

19. Main role MCC is responsible for collating, monitoring, coordinating and improving the standard of scholarly journal publications in Malaysia. MCC mainly engages in the research and evaluation of Malaysian scholarly communication, journal database development and citation software research and development.

20. Products MyJurnal MyCite Bibliographic data For each article in journals = Author(s), Title, Journal, Year + References. Full text if publishers permit Editing modules = author, affiliations, journal names, References segmentation Performance bibliometric reports  Topic = Total articles, for each article total cites  Authors = Total articles, total cites, h index  Affiliation – Total articles, total cites, h index  Journal = total articles, total cites, h index. If 2 or 5 year issues are indexed total articles total citations Impact factor Immediacy index, citation half life, h index, other indicators

22. Journals must be published at least 2 years and current. Older is good. Provide MCC access to full-text (online, soft copies, print) Put MCC in list of receivers Follow international editorial convention of a scholarly journal Those with good impact factor within Malaysia will be recommended to Scopus for indexation.

23. Yearly bibliometric reports Journal productivity: total articles, total cites, yearly IF, 5-yrly IF, immediacy index, citation half life, h index. Institution and author productivity: total articles, total cites, h index Citation based on disciplines: total articles, total cites to an article

24. MyCite is a national initiative MyCite or Malaysian Citation Index is the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia’s initiative, in line with its aspiration as embedded in Core 3 of the Malaysian Higher Education Strategic Plan, that is to "strengthen research and innovation" in institutions of higher learning in terms of: 1. Item 5.24 (iii): To increase collaboration amongst institutions of higher learning through improving the quality of research and publications 2. Item 5.24 (xii): To encourage and assist researchers in their writings in refereed journals with high impact 3. Item 5.24 (xii): To increase the quality of local journals so as to be competitive or at par with other international journals 4. Item 9.28 (v): To improve the Ministry’s ability to compile and analyze data related to all aspects of higher education, [including the publication output from Malaysian institutions of higher learning]

25. Objectives of MyCite The aim of MyCite is to increase the quality and visibility of Malaysian scholarly journals. Specific objectives are: To create a policy that can facilitate in the organization and monitoring as well as improving the standard of scholarly journal publication in Malaysia. To formulate a journal rating system to help Malaysian publishers self-access the international standing of their own journals. To list and evaluate all scholarly journal publications in Malaysia using bibliometric and scientometrics indicators. To provide an objective measure of Malaysian journal scientific impact. To enable the global access of Malaysian scholarly publications.

26. MyCite Usability Provides bibliometrics information as well as full- text contents of scholarly journals published in Malaysia in the field of Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Medicine, Social Sciences and the Humanities. Provides citation and bibliometric reports on Malaysian researchers, journals and institutions based only on the contents within MyCite. Helps make contents of Malaysian scholarly publications globally visible so that Malaysian researchers can identify experts and areas of possible collaboration as well as stimulate use and citations.

27. Significance of MyCite Authors could find out: The total articles they have published in Malaysian journals i.e. their research productivity. Who are citing their works in Malaysian journals. Who else are researching in their area and publishing in Malaysian journals. Journal publishers will know: Total articles they have published. Their journal impact in 2 and 5 years window. The immediacy index of their journals or how soon articles they publish get citation. Their journal’s h-index.

28. Significance of MyCite Academic librarians could find out… Total publications by authors affiliated to the institution published in Malaysian scholarly journals. Total citations to articles authored by authors affiliated to the institution. Academics, researchers and students could… Search for information, view and download full-text articles which is made available by persons or institutions that contributes to the system Locate productive authors and institutions Identify journal impact Conduct bibliometrics and scientometric studies related to Malaysian research

29. FieldsNumber of Journals PercentNumber of Articles Percent Arts & Humanities1418.0129211.0 Engineering & Technology 79.39488.0 Medical & Health Sci1520.0342929.0 Sciences1722.7413935.0 Social Sciences2229.3200817.0 Total75100.011816100.0 Journals Indexed in MyCite by Fields

30. Top 10 Country-based Works Ranked by Total Publications in 2006 - 2010

31. Top 10 Institutions Ranked by Total Publications NoInstitutionsTotal Publications Total Citations h-Index 1UKM17151714 2UPM12701224 3UM11951023 4USM925724 5UiTM406413 6UTM346131 7IIUM279303 8UMT17791 9UM Sabah175112 10UM Sarawak166142

32. Report: Authors Ranked by Total Publications Report: Authors Ranked by Total Publications NoAuthorsTotal Publications Total Citations h-IndexAffiliation 1Son, R.50294UPM 2Zainab, A.N.40193UM 3Lee, H.L.3592IMR 4Sherina, M.S.30182UPM 5Nazni, W.A.3081IMR 6Jamaluddin Md. Jahi3021UKM 7Zaini Hamzah2731UiTM 8Abdul Samad Hadi2721UKM 9Abdul Hadi Harman Shah2531UKM 10Abdullah, S.2531UKM 11Mohd. Ekhwan Toriman23101UKM 12Abdullah, B.J.J.2251UKM 13Saidur, R.2131UM

33. Gratis to Malaysian journal editors to publish and manage their journals - MyJurnal support refereeing function and delivery of publication. MyCite extracts data from MyJurnal to display search results and churn citation reports. A must if a journal wants to be indexed by MyCite to measure productivity and impact (citation). Publishers are given the option to build journal website through a publishing application.

34. 139 journals have been covered in MyJurnal

37. Web Site Generated (http://www.myjurnal.my/publish/MJLIS/index.php)

38. NoDescriptions Shows the summary of the journal Able to edit the journal information, name, descriptions Function to upload published articles by Editors/Publishers Function where editor will be able to check all the submitted articles and view all the comments from the collaboration with reviewers, editorial board members, editor-in-chief and authors Collect / register all the reviewers for this journal Information about the editorial group to be displayed in the web Information about the submission to be displayed in the web Create volume and Issue to upload and publish articles Function for editors to change their profile CMS to create journal website Editorial functions of MyJurnal 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 8 8 7 7 9 9 1010 1010

40. Affiliations can be deleted or edited Establish Authors’ names & aliases Establish affiliation & aliases Establish journal names & aliases for abbreviations Algorithm that segment article references Challenges: “Cleaning” of critical data

41. AuthorsAffiliationCountryPublica- tions Citationsh- Index 1Nazni, W.A. Institute for Medical Research Malaysia 2061 2Nazni Wasi Ahmad Institute for Medical Research Malaysia 121 3Nazni, W.A. Institute for Medical Research Malaysia 200 4Huq, Naznin Afrose University of Dhaka Bangladesh 100 5Nazni, W.Institute for Medical Research Malaysia 100 6Nazni Wasi Ahma University of Malaya Malaysia 100 Problems: authors’ variant names

42. Affiliation group management module

43. Affiliation aliases management module

44. Segmented References in “Reference editor” Item title: An unusual presentation of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults Ray, S 1, Sarkar, D 2, Ganguly, S 3, Maiti, A 4. Medical Journal of MalaysiaMedical Journal of Malaysia (Volume 67, No. 1, 2012, Pages 116 to 117)Volume 67, No. 1, 2012, Pages 116 to 117 Times cited: 0Times cited: 0 5 references, Reference no: 1071

45. General search module

46. Search topic = “nipah virus”

47. Results for “nipah virus”

48. Article citation report

49. Articles citing an article

50. Search author = “Chua, k.b.”

51. Citation report “chua, k.b”

52. Articles by Chua, K.B. Articles by “chua, k.b”

53. Articles that cite chua, k.b. Total 4

54. Search journal “Sains Malaysiana”

55. Publication Report for “Sains Malaysiana”

56. Publication in “Sains Malaysiana” Total articles: 152

57. Citation report: “Sains Malaysiana”

58. Search affiliation “Universiti Malaya”

59. Publication report: “Universiti Malaya”

60. Citation report: “Universiti Malaya”

61. MyCite Citation reports

62. Journal Citation Report by yearly IF

63. Single journal summary click on journal title

64. Summary: Mal J Econ Stud

65. Journal information Journal impact factor

66. 5-yr impact factor

67. Total cites vs Self cite

68. Immediacy index

69. Cited half life: 1.7 the median age of the articles in the journal that were cited by other journals during the year

70. Citing half life: 0.9 the median age of the articles that were cited by the articles published in the journal that year

71. MCC: Future Prospects Collaboration with Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam to form ASEAN Citation Index. Contribute publication and citation information to the Islamic Citation Centre in Iran. An agent which recommends Malaysian journal to Scopus for indexation.

72. MCC’s publications 2012 Buku maklumat MyCite = MyCite information booklet Malaysian scientific performance in the Web of Science 2001-2010 Citation performance of Malaysian scholarly journals in the Web of Science 2006-2010 Proceeding: International Conference on Journal Citation Systems in Asia Pacific Countries

73. Your action! Know your journal’s performance in Malaysia Increase your journal’s visibility. Request to be indexed. Provide MCC with at least 5 years of issues 2007 – 2011, if not longer. Give MCC access to the full text articles (online, softcopies, print) Improve your journal h index by giving MCC access to your archives too. Follow the scholarly journal publishing standards (take care of the quality). Refer to MyCite Information booklet on the journal selection criteria. Remember: the more journals that are indexed the higher would be the chances of seeing how you really perform in Malaysia

74. Terima kasih abrizah@um.edu.my mcc_mohe@um.edu.my Lawati: http://mycite.my http://myjurnal.my