Publication Strategies & Enhancement of Citations

As part of UiTM's aspiration to become a Research University, the RU Focus Group Committee in its recent meeting proposes the following publication strategies: First is for UiTM (or to be part of a consortium)to subscribe to ISI Web of Science (WoS) from Thomson Reuter. This would allow our researchers and authors to be exposed and linked to a wider publication network. WoS would compliment the existing Scopus databases at PTAR. Second is to slect 3-4 UiTM's niche journals (the university now has 57 journals)to be published by international publishers such as Emerald, Inderscience etc. In due process, these journals would be in the right track to be listed with either ISI or Scopus. Steps would then be taken to increase the number of publication of these journals to four issues per year. Third is to "merge" or to realign UiTM's 57 journals to only say ten strategic journals. Efforts then is to improve on the quality of editorial board members to reflect international participation and to increase on the frequency of publication per year. Full time managing editors must be appointed to ensure quality and timeliness of publication. Fourth is for RMI to review its past CSSR proceedings and to convert them into journal articles. Fifth is to organize writing workshops with renowned authors with the possibility of online journal submission to Scopus & ISI thomson. Sixth is for UiTM top management to consider rewarding articles published in ISI-Thomson or Scopus. Seventh is to realign the KPIs of COEs with the KPIs stipulated by MOHE.