Characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers

Highly cited papers serve as a proxy for excellence. In this paper, we identify Malaysia's highly-cited papers and explore the characteristics of these papers. The research question posed is "What characterizes Malaysian highly cited papers?" This study adopts the definition by Thomso...

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Main Authors:	Abdullah, Noorhidawati, Mohd Khalid, Yanti Idaya Aspura, Mohd Nor, Zahila, Abdullah, Abrizah
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Published:	Universiti Malaya (UM) 2017
Subjects:	Z665 Library Science. Information Science ZA4050 Electronic information resources
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spelling	iium-470052018-07-09T01:15:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/47005/ Characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers Abdullah, Noorhidawati Mohd Khalid, Yanti Idaya Aspura Mohd Nor, Zahila Abdullah, Abrizah Z665 Library Science. Information Science ZA4050 Electronic information resources Highly cited papers serve as a proxy for excellence. In this paper, we identify Malaysia's highly-cited papers and explore the characteristics of these papers. The research question posed is "What characterizes Malaysian highly cited papers?" This study adopts the definition by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicator, i.e. the highly cited papers are papers that received enough citations to be placed in the top 1 percent of the academic field of each 22 subject areas based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year. As a small scientific nation, Malaysia has a rather limited number of papers being highly cited, and we observed nine characteristics of highly cited papers based on 708 datasets obtained from the Web of Science. Malaysian highly cited papers are largely represented by articles, but reviews have higher impact. Typically, these papers have a low self-cited index and they are published in the First Quartile of the science discipline publications. The papers are mainly the outcome of national funded research; involve multiple co-authorship and international collaboration; affiliated to Malaysian research universities and Malaysian authors often play a dominant role as first or reprint authors. Partnership with scientists from Iran, Australia and UK may increase markedly the possibility of a Malaysian paper becoming highly cited. This investigation has shown that these are the characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers, but to what extent can these be used as indicators need further investigation and discussions among the scientific community. Universiti Malaya (UM) 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47005/1/47005_Characteristics%20of%20Malaysian%20highly%20cited.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47005/2/47005_Characteristics%20of%20Malaysian%20highly%20cited_SCOPUS.pdf Abdullah, Noorhidawati and Mohd Khalid, Yanti Idaya Aspura and Mohd Nor, Zahila and Abdullah, Abrizah (2017) Characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 22 (2). pp. 85-99. ISSN 1394-6234 http://mjlis.um.edu.my/index.php/MJLIS/article/view/3742
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description	Highly cited papers serve as a proxy for excellence. In this paper, we identify Malaysia's highly-cited papers and explore the characteristics of these papers. The research question posed is "What characterizes Malaysian highly cited papers?" This study adopts the definition by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicator, i.e. the highly cited papers are papers that received enough citations to be placed in the top 1 percent of the academic field of each 22 subject areas based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year. As a small scientific nation, Malaysia has a rather limited number of papers being highly cited, and we observed nine characteristics of highly cited papers based on 708 datasets obtained from the Web of Science. Malaysian highly cited papers are largely represented by articles, but reviews have higher impact. Typically, these papers have a low self-cited index and they are published in the First Quartile of the science discipline publications. The papers are mainly the outcome of national funded research; involve multiple co-authorship and international collaboration; affiliated to Malaysian research universities and Malaysian authors often play a dominant role as first or reprint authors. Partnership with scientists from Iran, Australia and UK may increase markedly the possibility of a Malaysian paper becoming highly cited. This investigation has shown that these are the characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers, but to what extent can these be used as indicators need further investigation and discussions among the scientific community.
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author	Abdullah, Noorhidawati Mohd Khalid, Yanti Idaya Aspura Mohd Nor, Zahila Abdullah, Abrizah
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title	Characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers
title_short	Characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers
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title_fullStr	Characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers
title_full_unstemmed	Characteristics of Malaysian highly cited papers
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