1. Best Practices and Strategies to Achieve Scopus Publication KPIs through Human Resource and Structural Optimization
Prof. Dr. Amran Rasli

2. Components of presentation
UTM Publication
Best Practices and Strategies to Achieve Scopus Publication KPIs
Human Resource and Structural Optimization
Ethical Issues

3. UTM Publication

4. Welcome to UTM
Website UTM:
Engineering vs Social Science

5. Everything begins with a KPI
The same applies to UTM. This is our publication KPI for 2015:
Published articles in SCOPUS/Web of Science (WOS)/Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)
6,500

6. Performance Must Always be Compared
2014
2015
Improvement (%)
1st Q
2nd Q
3rd Q
# Pub
Scopus
WOS
Article
Conference
Review Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Imp. Factor
1st Quarter: Good Focus on High Impact Publications
Overall reduction in Conference is Good Sign
Increase in Review paper in 3rd Quarter will set traction for Citations
But why so much RED?

7. Scenarios must always be planned

8. Measure everyone
Measurement based on:
Scival
and
Google Scholar

9. Collaborate, as no man is an island

10. Celebrate success

11. You need a game plan

12. BEST PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE SCOPUS PUBLICATION KPIs (Faculty approach)

13. Promotional Policy
Based on publication, research, teaching (including supervision of PhD students), consultancy and community service

14. POLISI & KRITERIA KENAIKAN PANGKAT STAF AKADEMIK

15. KRITERIA
PENYELIDIKAN & PENERBITAN

18. NOTA RUJUKAN :
Bagi jawatan DS54 ke VK07, calon hendaklah memperolehi sekurang-kurangnya dua (2) PI atas jawatan semasa.
Bagi jawatan VK07 ke VK06, calon hendaklah memperolehi sekurang-kurangnya tiga (3) PI atas jawatan semasa.
Bagi jawatan VK06 ke VK05, calon hendaklah memperolehi sekurang-kurangnya empat (4) PI atas jawatan semasa.
i. Jumlah melebihi minimum perolehan dana dalam setiap kategori boleh diambilkira untuk memenuhi kriteria
perolehan dana
ii. 30% daripada jumlah dana bagi jawatan yang dipohon dan mesti diperolehi atas jawatan semasa.
iii. Merujuk kepada perkara (ii), bagi permohonan ke jawatan VK07 dan ke atas mestilah dana dari geran luar.
i. Ditakrifkan sebagai jurnal yang diindeks oleh ISI / WOS dan SCOPUS sahaja bagi sains dan teknologi dan TIDAK
TERMASUK Prosiding Terindeks. Untuk bidang Sains Sosial termasuk Jurnal yang diindeks oleh Excellence
Research Australia (ERA).
ii. Bagi staf yang berumur 48 tahun ke atas, kesetaraan yang diambilkira adalah penerbitan paper sebelum
1 Januari 2011:
a. 3 paper in indexed proceeding = 1 indexed journal
b. 5 paper in non indexed journal = 1 indexed journal
c. 10 paper in proceeding = 1 indexed journal
Bagi permohonan kenaikan pangkat ke Gred VK07 dan ke atas untuk bidang sains teknologi, 15 jurnal diperolehi
atas jawatan semasa, dan 5 daripadanya mestilah dari jurnal ISI.
Bagi permohonan kenaikan pangkat ke Gred VK07 untuk bidang sains sosial, 10 jurnal diperolehi atas jawatan
semasa, dan 3 daripadanya mestilah dari jurnal ISI.
(H) Bagi permohonan kenaikan pangkat ke Gred VK06 untuk bidang sains sosial, 15 jurnal diperolehi atas jawatan
semasa, dan 4 daripadanya mestilah dari jurnal ISI.
(I) Bagi permohonan kenaikan pangkat ke Gred VK05 untuk bidang sains sosial, 15 jurnal diperolehi atas jawatan
semasa, dan 5 daripadanya mestilah dari jurnal ISI.
Rujukan singkatan :
VK-PU : Profesor Penyelidikan Utama
VK-PP : Profesor Penyelidikan & Pengajaran
VK-PK : Profesor Penyelidikan & Perkhidmatan
PI : Penyelidik Utama

19. Supervisor Development Program (AS102)
Academic staff with less than 5 years experience in PhD supervision must undergo 15 hours of training to qualify as doctoral student supervisor
Critical module: Publication for graduation (3 hours)

20. Supervision and Publication
Refer UTM graduate studies rules and regulations
“normal PhD”
PhD by publication

24. Getting Students’ Research Papers Published: Where?
PhD: 1 ISI indexed journal paper
Masters by research: 1 Scopus and 1 book chapter
Masters by mixed-mode: 1 non-indexed journal and 1 book chapter
Undergraduate thesis: 1 non-indexed journal or 1 book chapter

25. HUMAN RESOURCE AND STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION

26. Publication Workshop Create Champions
For Scopus
For ISI
Small groups (15 academics and 15 PG students from FoM, FIS, FBE and FoE)
1st meeting (how to write)
2 weeks break
2nd meeting (simulated review process)
Submission
If good, ≥ Scopus
If OK, indexed journals (e.g. Sains Humanika)

27. Publication Workshop is designed to eliminate fear

28. Create Publication Pathways
UTM has 15 journals
Only Jurnal Teknologi is Scopus Indexed
Sains Humanika to be Scopus Indexed by end of 2017
Chief Editor: Prof Dr Rosli Ilias Chief Editor: Prof Dr Amran Rasli

29. Promote Publication to the max

30. Participation in Conferences
Supported if backed by minimum Scopus Indexed journals
Special issues vs proceedings

31. Faculty based Incentives
Funding for conferences
Bigger allocation if academic staff had papers published in a Scopus or impact factored journal in the previous year
Funding for proof reading
Usage of research grant or faculty allocation for editorial work

32. Policy for Publication

33. Policy for Publication

34. Policy for Publication

35. University based Incentives
Empowering the Library
Payment
indexed publication
Scopus publication
ISI publication

36. Developing an On-line System
RADIS

37. Developing an On-line System
RADIS

38. Celebrate our Prolific Writers
By research alliance
By individual

39. Celebrating groups and individuals on a yearly basis with rewards

40. The Way Forward Enhance publication in Q1 journals Joint publication
Problems for Social Scientists
Need to reinvent ourselves
Joint publication
Reputable Journal Editorial Board
The route to global branding of UTM academics: citation, citation, citation
How?
Hot topics
Self promotion (own website, research gate, Linked in etc)

41. The Era of Self Promotion

42. ETHICAL ISSUES

43. Gift Authorship
Inclusions, among the authors, of an individual who does not fulfill the requirement for authorship. It is common practice to oblige some seniors or colleagues

44. Pressured Authorship
A person when use his position of authority in order to be included as an author, regardless of not being qualified is referred as pressured authorship.

45. Ghost Authorship
It is referred to denial of authorship of individuals who played an effective part in the work and were qualified for authorship

46. Duplicate Submission
Is defined as publication of a paper that overlaps substantially with one already published. Most biomedical journals will not consider manuscripts that are simultaneously being considered by most quality journals. For practical purposes, any article that has similar or near similar hypothesis, sample characteristics, methodology, results and conclusions to a published article is a duplicate article, and if it is republished without the knowledge of the editors, it is called duplicate publication. The authors of the duplicate manuscript may be the same, as in most cases, but it may also be a different author(s) publishing the same article without the knowledge of the initial author(s).

47. Salami Publication
On the other hand, slicing of data from a single research process or gathered during a single study period, into different pieces, creating individual manuscripts from each piece, and publishing these to different journals or even the same journal is called 'salami publication' or 'salami slicing'. In case of salami publications, readers have to read more than one article to get full information and a clear idea. Hence most reputable journals strongly discourages such publications. Here it is very difficult to find out salami publication as clever authors ensure to hide the dates of research work if they intend to send salami publication to the journal. Self-regulations and strict vigilance from the Heads of the Departments/Institutes can also help to overcome this problem

48. Plagiarism
Is the use of another's ideas words and work in part or in whole without attributing it to the original source? It is not only unethical but it is a copyright violation. Those interested in knowing detail legal implication of plagiarism can log on
This problem is also widely prevalent but many a times reasons may be ignorance on the part of new authors who are not made aware of this by their seniors. The awareness and strict peer reviewing can help to overcome this problem.

49. Publications which add no new information to knowledge base
Many a time articles are submitted to journals which add no new information to medical knowledge base. This problem starts with the choice of the research topic and also reflects the problem in research methodology being adopted in medical institutions. We believe that it is unethical to spend resources on research if that research does not add any thing new to knowledge base.
Thus, it is very important to answer these research questions before starting any research:
What is already known about this topic?
What does your work add to the existing body of knowledge?
What is new (i.e. not already reported) in your work? (methodology/results/ conclusions)?

50. Scientific Fraud
This is not a new problem especially in the history of Medicine. Many examples are there when studies have been retracted after becoming evident that they are fraud and cooked. Fabrication (altering truthful information) and Falsification (Inventing information where none previously existed) are the common types of scientific frauds. Published account suggest that paper containing recognizable fraudulent material is very low probably less than 0.02%. Self regulation, scientific audits and asking for the detail record of research data from the authors can help to certain extent to overcome this problem. Moreover, Institutional, Departmental Heads and Local Ethics Committees should have a supervisory role over the publications from the institutes. The institutes and/or Departments should keep a record of publications from their researchers and academicians along with the preliminary data supporting the research findings.

51. My Final Comments
Avoid Unethical Thoughts

52. Let’s not be Desperados
Avoid predatory journals at all cost. . . Your publication in these journals may haunt you later!!!

54. Except work harder