Presenter:

Prof. Madya Dr. Abrizah Abdullah

Malaysia Citation Centre (MCC)

Ministry of Higher Education

Malaysia

Malaysian Citation Centre (MCC)

Journal Management System (MyJurnal)

Malaysian Citation Index (MyCite)

Outlines

1. What are MCC, MyJurnal & MyCite

2. MyJurnal

3. MyCite Citation Reports

4. How Publishers, Authors, Researchers & Librarians can benefit

5. URLs

What is MCC

MCC

• Malaysian Citation Centre was established in February 2011 by MoHE.

• to coordinate the collation and dissemination of scholarly works in journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, books and theses.

• MCC hosts the MyCite (Malaysian Citation Index, that analyses and provides citation data) and MyJurnal (Journal Management System)

About MCC..what MOHE aspires

The setting up of MCC is in line with the 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

What is MyJurnal

MyJurnal

• Journal Management System is an add on service that MCC provides for journal editors

• Those journals that wants to use online submission, having individual website for their journal and want to do editorial process online can use this system.

• MCC uses this system to edit article references to produce bibliometrics statistics.

What is MyCite

MyCite

• derived from MyAIS (Malaysian Abstracting and Indexing System, (http://myais.fsktm.um.edu.my)developed by the Digital Library Research Group, at the University of Malaya since 2007

• aims to support accessibility to and visibility of Malaysian journals.

• is linked MyJurnal (http://www.myjurnal.my) to extract the bibliographic data for display and calculation of bibliometric statistics.

• There are altogether 154 journals under 5 main disciplines covered by Myjurnal

• Out of this, 113 journals are reported in MyCiteCitation Report as journals covered by MyCiteneed to have published at least two issues in order to accrue citation count, impact or h-index score.

• Selection criteria for journals can be accessed from http://www.mycite.my/en/journal-selection-criteria

MyCite is a national initiative

• MyCite is the MoHE’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]

How MyJurnal & MyCite are

linked

MyJurnal MyCite

Journal

ArticlesCitation Reports

bibliography

Bibliometric

statistics

By Disciplines

Arts &

Humanities

Engineering

&

Technology

Medical &

Health

Sciences

Sciences Social

Sciences

Disciplines 24 32 31 41 55

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Disciplines

Problems expressed by

publishers

Not getting quality articles

Not getting enough articles to publish

Don’t know whether people can easily access my journal

Don’t know who is citing published articles

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?

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4

6

3

5

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Problems expressed by

Authors / Researchers

Where / how to access Malaysian journals in my field?

Is there an online repository of Malaysian journals?

What is the IF of the journal?

What is my h-index in Malaysia?

Who is citing my articles in Malaysian journals?

Is there an e-version of that journal? Can I submit online? What is journal’s frequency? How can I get information about instructions to authors?

Are Malaysian journals indexed by ISI, Scopus or any indexes?

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Problems expressed by Librarian

Librarian

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 university the performance of the a journals? Their total cites, h index?

MyCite

MyCite Citation Report

1

Detail Report

Total Cites 71

Self Cites 67 (94.37%)

Year 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 20022001-

all

Citation 71 22 6 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0

Cumulative

Citation %70.30 92.08 98.02 98.02 98.02 98.02 99.01 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00

Malaysian Citation Report

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Aggregated Citation Report

3

General Search - Article

General Search

Affiliation

Advance Search

MyJurnal

MyJurnal - Browse

Login to the system

Article Submission

Starting a new

submission

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1

2

Steps to

submit

manuscript

Form to

submit

manuscript

Article Management

Display article

by status

Display

list of articles

View Article Details

Assigning reviewers and

locking the access

Workspace by roles which

will have all the conversations

Website

How Publishers can benefit

• Not getting quality articles

• Not getting enough articles to publish

• Can identify authors who are expert in a particular research area, can invite them to write paper or become reviewer or EBM

• Don’t know whether people can easily access my journal

• Don’t know who is citing published articles

• Don’t know how to get my journal indexed

• Does my journal has an impact in Malaysia?

• Can get the citing articles and the IF are provided in the various reports from MyCite.

Publishers

How Authors and Researchers

can benefit

• Where / how to access Malaysian journals in my field?

• Is there an online repository of Malaysian journals?

• Is there an e-version of that journal? Can I submit online?

• MyCite provides users with easy access to Malaysian scholarly works over the Web.

• Who is citing my articles in Malaysian journals?

• What is my h-index in Malaysia?

• Authors may use MyCite to find out who has cited their papers published in Malaysian scholarly works.

• What are the IF of the journal?

• From MyCite it is possible to identify which paper cites whose paper, the impact of a journal.

Authors

How Librarians can benefit

• Is there a master list of Malaysian journals?

• Is the list available online?

• Can obtain from MyJurnal

• Who is responsible for maintaining such a list?

• How can I locate Malaysian journals to purchase or subscribe for the

library?

• In MyJurnal, MCC includes the original URL of an article which

helps to locate the URL of a journal

• How can I help show university the performance of the a journal? Their total cites, h index?

• Various reports produced from MyCite

Librarian

Contact us:

Malaysian Citation Centre

Department of Higher Education,

Ministry of Higher Education MalaysiaLevel 3, No.2 Tower 2,

P5/6 Street, Precinct 5,62200 W.P. PutrajayaMalaysia.

Enquiries, Comments & Suggestions, please e-mail to mcc_mohe@um.edu.my

Thank you

Visit us at:

• http://mycc.my – Website of the MCC

• http://mycite.my – citation reports

• http://myjurnal.my – journal articles