Auditing Social Science and Humanities Journals: The View of an Editor in a Malaysian Research University

It is common practice for a university to have many journals located within different schools and faculties in order to help young researchers publish their work and gain confidence in their writing abilities. The focus of this paper is with the journals that are not listed in databases and cater on...

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Published inJournal of scholarly publishing Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 384 - 393
Main Author Nambiar, Radha M. K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published North York, ON University of Toronto Press 01.07.2013
Subjects
Editors
Exact sciences and technology
Humanities
Indexing
Information and communication sciences
Information publishing, dissemination and reproduction
Information science. Documentation
Publishing. Electronic publishing. Bibliological aspects
Researchers
Sciences and techniques of general use
Social sciences
Asia
Malaysia
Evaluation
Humanities
Periodical
Social sciences
researchers
social sciences and humanities
Research
journals
Research worker
University
publication
Published document
editors
Indexing
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Summary:It is common practice for a university to have many journals located within different schools and faculties in order to help young researchers publish their work and gain confidence in their writing abilities. The focus of this paper is with the journals that are not listed in databases and cater only to academics within a school to serve as an avenue for publication. When the National University of Malaysia was accorded research university status recently, publications and research became an important indicator of the performance of the university. This led to a new demand for publications in indexed journals and for increasing citations. Hence, it was timely to conduct an ‘in-house evaluation’ of journals within the university, focusing particularly on the social sciences and humanities journals. An evaluation was conducted using the basic criteria for journals included in the database Scopus, and measures were then proposed to improve the journals. This exercise was meant to help the journals that had a long publishing history to rise to the challenges of being scholarly journals in an era of competitiveness, databases and indexes.
ISSN:1198-9742
1710-1166
DOI:10.3138/jsp.44-4-006