WTF, first, you guys say Malaysian universities do not consider ISI, then when UM's website shows lecturers publishing in ISI, you say it is poor quality etc. I think for you guys, you should just end the conversation by saying Malaysian universities sux, foreign countries better, malaysia is unfair due to NEP etc etc etc. Typical Malaysians, complain complain complain. If you guys claim that you have so many good things to offer to the country, do something? Yes yes, there is no chance for non bumi bla bla bla. If you want to contribute, just contribute. Don't think about money, opportunity etc.

I think the websites posted demostrated two things 1) Someone mentioned malaysian lecturers never show their CV and profile, then posted an NUS website link. So the UM website shows you that you are wrong, the CVs are available! 2) Malaysian universities don't really focus on ISI, again wrong, because the links show that they do. But please don't compare with universities in US, UK etc. Are you telling me that all universities in the UK, US , are good? How about East London University? How about those lowly ranked universities in the UK?

Someone showed the australian journal ranking ERA.. well, FYI, some of the ranked A journals are not ISI, while some ISI journals are not ranked well in ERA. Forget about ranking of journals. You mean whenever a lecturers want to publish, he has to look at the ranking?? Perhaps the journal's theme is suitable, is is a relatively good journal, good editorial board members, papers there are of good standard etc? What is the point of publishing in ISI journal when your paper is not cited at the end? What if someone publishes a paper in a non ISI journal but the paper is cited 1000 times?

Professor Ng Seik Weing published 185 ISI journals in one year alone. This is IMPOSSIBLE. How do you know? Did you check the journal ranking? Did it show that they are poorly ranked journals? Nothing is impossible.

This post has been edited by firstamongequal: Apr 24 2010, 12:11 PM