Gu, YN " n exploratory study of Malaysian publication productivity in computer science and information technology " JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 53 (12): 974-986 OCT 2002

[Eugene Garfield]

Y.N.  Gu :  guyinian at rocketmail.com


Authors: Gu, YN

Title:   An exploratory study of Malaysian publication productivity in
computer science and information technology

Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY, 53 (12): 974-986 OCT 2002

Abstract:
Explores the Malaysian computer science and information technology
publication productivity. A total of 547 unique Malaysian authors,
affiliated to 52 organizations in Malaysia, contributed 461 publications
between 1990 and 1999 as indicated by data collected from three Web-based
databases. The majority (378 or 69.1%) of authors wrote one publication. The
productive authors and the number of their papers as well as the position of
their names in the articles are listed to indicate their productivity and
degree of involvement in their research publications. Researchers from the
universities contribute about 428 (92.8%) publications. The three most
productive institutions together account for a total of 258 (56.0%)
publications. The composition of the publications are 197 (42.7%) journal
articles, 263 (57.1%) conference papers, and 1 (0.2%) monograph chapters.
The results indicate that the scholars published in a few core proceedings
but contributed to a wide variety of journals. Thirty-nine fields of
research undertaken by the scholars are also revealed. The possible reasons
for the amount and pattern of contributions are related to the size of
researcher population in the country, the availability of refereed scholarly
journals, and the total expenditure allocated to information, computers, and
communication technology (ICCT) research in Malaysia.

Reprints: GU YN,TSING HUA UNIV;EAST 4-2-402;
          BEIJING 100084, PEOPLES R CHINA.

 Research
 Institutions:
            Tsing Hua Univ, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China.
 Discipline:  LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCES
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