Peranan Pusat Sitasi Malaysia = The role of Malaysian Citation Centre

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

2. 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. Scope of presentation

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

4. Problems expressed by journal publishers • 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

5. Problems expressed by authors, researchers • 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?

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?

7. Indexation by MyAIS

8. 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

10. Journals by broad disciplines

11. Frequency & format

12. Visibility:Malaysian journals in WoS (n=9)

13. Malaysian Journals in WoS & Scopus by Publisher Type

14. Malaysian Journals in WoS & Scopus by Broad Fields (10.9%)

15. Journals in WoS & Scopus by Universities (6.2% of total)

16. 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) Result

17. 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. About MCC..what MOHE aspires

18. 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 Responsibilities

19. 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. Main role

20. 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 Products

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 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] MyCite is a national initiative

25. 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. Objectives of MyCite

26. 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. MyCite Usability

27. 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. Significance of MyCite

28. 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 Significance of MyCite

29. 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

32. Report: Authors Ranked by Total Publications

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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Editorial functions of MyJurnal 8 9 10

40. Challenges: “Cleaning” of critical data

41. Problems: authors’ variant names

42. Affiliation group management module

43. Affiliation aliases management module

44. Item title: An unusual presentation of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults Ray, S1, Sarkar, D2, Ganguly, S3, Maiti, A4. Medical Journal of Malaysia (Volume 67, No. 1, 2012, Pages 116 to 117) Times cited: 0 5 references, Reference no: 1071 Segmented References in “Reference editor”

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.”