Publication in High Impact Journal

The Accounting Research Institute (ARI HICoE), in collaboration with the Institute of Research Management and Innovation (IRMI) recently organized a three-day publication workshop at the De Palma Hotel in Shah Alam.  A total of 77 participants took part in the workshop.  Following ARI's previous successful workshop in February 2016, the recent workshop invited participants from various faculties namely Faculty of Business Management, Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, Faculty of Music, Faculty of Information Management, Faculty of
Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA Melaka and researchers from the ARI HICoE.

 Participants were required to bring at least one full article to the workshop.  The workshop organiser (ARI) has also appointed three English editors from the Language Academy of UiTM and facilitators from respective groups.  The aim of the workshop was to identify suitable indexed journals for the papers and to submit the paper by the end of the workshop.  Although the initial target was a submission of 100 articles, the workshop participants were able to submit a total of 110 articles to various journals indexed in SCOPUS, Thomson Reuters and Excellence Research Australia directories.  Congratulations all.

ARI Publication Workshop

The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) organizes a three-day publication workshop at Hotel UiTM, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor.  

The workshop is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Research Management & Innovation (IRMI) under the "Incentive MyRA Grant" and the Accounting Research Institute under its HICoE Grant.  Basically, the aims of the workshop are: (i) to produce papers to be submitted to Q1 & Q2 journals within ARI's research niche Islamic Financial Criminology and (ii) to produce papers to be submitted to indexed journals (Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS and ERA) for the enhancement of UiTM MyRA score.  

A total of seventy eight researchers are attending the workshop.  Each participant is required to: (i) bring two draft articles to the workshop; (ii) identify suitable indexed journal for the paper; (iii) format their papers in accordance to the requirements of the journal; (iv) content-edit the paper by head of group; (v) English-edit the paper by a professional English editor (made available throughout the workshop) and (vi) submit on-line final paper by the third day of the workshop.  This is indeed a very good start for ARI and UiTM Insya Allah.

Publication in High Impact Journals

As part of his scheduled activity, ARI's Visiting Professor Paul Barnes conducted a special workshop on "Publication in High Impact Journals".  He defines High Impact journals as journals that have been recognized internationally by the academic community and are often ranked highly by reputable indexing bodies.  The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in science and social science journals. Publication in journals with a high impact factor is regarded as an indication of the quality of the research published and, by implication, the quality of its authors.

Not  surprisingly, publishing in highly ranked journals is an aspiration for most authors and often plays an important role in one’s own career prospects and progression. Yet, as more and more researchers aspire to publish in top rated journals, the competition gets tougher and the success rate far lower than publishing on low-impact journals. Two of the most used indexing bodies are SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters (ISI). Journals in these indexing bodies are often ranked as Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 - often as a result of some form of journal citation analysis.  In Australia for example, business academics are encouraged to published in "A" and "B"-ranked journals of the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) directory.  In his talk, Prof Barnes encourages researchers to present their papers at conferences, get feedback, review papers and then submit them to journals.

Publication Workshop by FC Research Cluster

A three day publication workshop entitled ‘Prioritizing Publication in Indexed Journals’ was held from 26^th – 28^th July 2013 in Selesa Beach Resort, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan. The workshop was intended for Financial Criminology-fraud indicators research cluster, which is headed by Associate Professor Dr Zuraidah  Mohd Sanusi (Deputy Director of ARI).  The workshop provides an avenue for researchers to discuss working papers in the field of financial criminology research, aiming to improve academic writing and making it ready for publication in indexed journals. This workshop achieved its purposes with attendees of 21 researchers and research assistants who have worked on more than ten papers to be published in SCOPUS/ERA indexed journals. The areas of studies includes fraud detection, internal control, audit quality, corporate governance, Shariah compliance companies, fraud incidents in banking, fraud risk in government agencies, government linked companies and earnings management.  

ARI’s staff also held their own workgroup to update research information for ARI’s database during the 3-day event. The database system developed by Dr Intan Salwani Mohamad (ARI’s fellow), has facilitated the requirement and expectations of MOHE towards ARI’s research grant achievement. Among the staff involved are Wan Mariati Wan Omar, Munirah Morad, Aziah Nasir, Hamidah Awal, Zamzarina Jaini and Farhana Alaei. They have collected information and evidence for all ARI activities up to June 2013. ARI needs to continue this high spirit to be more efficient despite of the challenge in the fasting month of Ramadhan.