Writing and Publishing in

High Impact Journal

Types of Writing

•Academic Writing

vs

•Creative Writing

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Academic Writing

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Thesis

Journal article

Book

Newspaper article

Project report

Creative Writing

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Academic Writing

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Creative Writing

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No specific format Your manuscript

your style

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Purpose of Academic Writing

Requirement for graduation!!!

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Requirement for promotion!!!

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To be recognized!!!

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To get award/reward!!!

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To share/disseminate knowledge!!!

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If your research is not published

in a journal it does not exist.

For graduation

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For graduation

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For graduation

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All Research Universities require TWO Indexed articles. Other universities require minimum ONE refereed article.

For Promotion

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To be recognized

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To be recognized

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To be recognized

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To be recognized

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To get reward

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Number of Academic publications: Malaysia’s world ranked 36th

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Despite a small country, Malaysia Ranked 8th in Asia Pacific region

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2006, Malaysia

started Research

University program

Malaysia

Singapore

Thailand

Indonesia

2010,UTM joined

Research

University program

Quantity

Qualit

y

Publication Trends among RUs

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UM

UTM

UPM

UKM

USM

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NUS is far above Malaysian universities

NUS

Malaysian Research Universities

Quantity

Qualit

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Malaysian Technical Universities Network

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MTUN

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Top 10 UTeM Authors

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Where to publish

JOURNAL

CONFERENCE

Level of

difficulty

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SCOPUS vs ISI Indexed

http://www.scopus.com

http://apps.webofknowledge.com

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Where to publish

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Academic Conference

Usually organized by academic institutions.

Papers undergo peer review process.

Participation fee around RM1000-RM2500.

Organized at hotel/academic institution.

Reviewing process 1 – 3 months.

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Academic Conference

www.conferencealerts.com

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Academic Conference

All accepted/presented papers might be published in i)Conference proceeding or/and ii)Journal Check conference website!!!

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(Academic) Journal

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(Academic) Journal

A journal must has i) ISSN/eISSN no. ii) Chief editor iii) Editorial board member iv) Aims and scope of the

journal v) Two articles published per

volume

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(Academic) Journal

Journals are Published by publishers

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(Academic) Journal More than 100,000 journals exist - How to control journal’s quality??

http://www.springeropen.com/journals

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(Academic) Journal More than 100,000 journals exist - How to control journal’s quality??

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SCOPUS vs ISI Indexed

http://www.scopus.com

http://apps.webofknowledge.com

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SCOPUS indexed journals

SCOPUS selection criteria

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www.scopus.com

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https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scop

us/content

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Journal indexing service

For “Research University” the citation data

supplier is Scopus & Web of Science (ISI)

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Journal indexing/abstracting service

http://apps.webofknowledge.com

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Journal indexing/abstracting service

The quality of a journal is measured by i) Journal’s impact factor ii) Journal’s ranking/quartile

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Journal indexing/abstracting service

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Journal indexing/abstracting service

The quality of a journal is measured by i) Journal’s impact factor ii) Journal’s ranking/quartile

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Elsevier’s Journals

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Hindawi’s Journals

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Taylors and Francis’s Journals

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Springer’s Journals

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CONFERENCE

Indexed Conference

Proceeding

Non-Indexed

Conference

Proceeding

JOURNAL

Indexed Journal

Non-Indexed

Journal

Article

How to get your articles published