The Malaysian Citation Centre of the Ministry of Higher Education recently published its first report titled "Performance of Malaysian Journals in MyCite: 2012". Basically, the report aims to inform about the status and performance of Malaysian journals that are currently indexed in MyCite (Malaysian Citation Index). To date, MyCite lists a total of 112 journals, covering five main disciplines: Arts & Humanities (21), Engineering & Technology (14), Medical & Health (19), Sciences (27) and Social Sciences (31). The majority of the journals indexed are published by the universities (75%) and the remaining by either professional societies (19%) or other government agencies (6%). The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) showcases two journals, namely the
Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (APMAJ) and the
Malaysian Accounting Review (MAR). MyCite basically aims to promote Malaysian journals and to encourage appropriate citations of these journals. Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source (not always the original source). Citation has several important purposes: to uphold intellectual honesty, to attribute prior or unoriginal work and ideas to the correct sources, to allow the reader to determine independently whether the referenced material supports the author's argument in the claimed way, and to help the reader gauge the strength and validity of the material the author has used. Renowned
database companies such as ISI Thomson and SCOPUS normally publish Journal Citation Reports (JCR) to evaluate the level of citations received by those journals that they indexed. As such, the higher the level of citation (often measured by the journal H-Index), the higher is the impact of those journals to the body of knowledge, hence the higher is the "quality" of those journals. With reference to the MyCite report, only 88 journals have obtained an H-Index of at least "1". Of these, twelve journals have between "3-6" H-Index; 27 journals with "2" H-Index and 49 with an H-Index of "1". ARI's two journals, MAR and APMAJ have respectively garnered "2" and "1" H-Index. It's a great start. What that also meant, ARI researchers must aggressively promote the journals and when appropriate, cite them accordingly.
The Malaysian Citation Centre of the Ministry of Higher Education recently published its first report titled "Performance of Malaysian Journals in MyCite: 2012". Basically, the report aims to inform about the status and performance of Malaysian journals that are currently indexed in MyCite (Malaysian Citation Index). To date, MyCite lists a total of 112 journals, covering five main disciplines: Arts & Humanities (21), Engineering & Technology (14), Medical & Health (19), Sciences (27) and Social Sciences (31). The majority of the journals indexed are published by the universities (75%) and the remaining by either professional societies (19%) or other government agencies (6%). The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) showcases two journals, namely the Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (APMAJ) and the Malaysian Accounting Review (MAR). MyCite basically aims to promote Malaysian journals and to encourage appropriate citations of these journals. Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source (not always the original source). Citation has several important purposes: to uphold intellectual honesty, to attribute prior or unoriginal work and ideas to the correct sources, to allow the reader to determine independently whether the referenced material supports the author's argument in the claimed way, and to help the reader gauge the strength and validity of the material the author has used. Renowned database companies such as ISI Thomson and SCOPUS normally publish Journal Citation Reports (JCR) to evaluate the level of citations received by those journals that they indexed. As such, the higher the level of citation (often measured by the journal H-Index), the higher is the impact of those journals to the body of knowledge, hence the higher is the "quality" of those journals. With reference to the MyCite report, only 88 journals have obtained an H-Index of at least "1". Of these, twelve journals have between "3-6" H-Index; 27 journals with "2" H-Index and 49 with an H-Index of "1". ARI's two journals, MAR and APMAJ have respectively garnered "2" and "1" H-Index. It's a great start. What that also meant, ARI researchers must aggressively promote the journals and when appropriate, cite them accordingly.
