Terms in publications

Salam, hey there..

Just for a recent update, i'm now being a bit busy with the workloads so my free time has been reduce (that is why i rarely updated my blog..haha)..

By the way, in today's entry i'm going to discuss about terms that we seldom heard..
-SCOPUS cited
-ISI (Thompson Reuters)
-Peer-viewed journal
-Impact factor

Let's start with SCOPUS and ISI (Thompson Reuters):

We might wonder and seldom heard about these terms. But do we understand the terms? Ok now, SCOPUS which was launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 19,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, SciVerse Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities. This means that i u r able to get a publication, ur manuscript is sometimes can be acess by other people using this database..Meanwhile, ISI Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Web of Knowledge is today's premier research platform for information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. ISI is actually an organization which gathered all research field in one platform..The different between the two is, SCOPUS = database, ISI = website

Next, is the peer-review journals...Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility. In academia peer review is often used to determine an academic paper's suitability for publication and it can be divided into two;

1) Anonymous peer review, also called blind review, is a system of prepublication peer review of scientific articles or papers for journals or academic conferences by reviewers who are known to the journal editor or conference organizer but whose names are not given to the article's author. The reviewers do not know the author's identity, as any identifying information is stripped from the document before review. The system is intended to reduce or eliminate bias, although this has been challenged.
2) Open peer review describes a scientific literature concept and process, central to which is the various transparency and disclosure of the identities of those reviewing scientific publications. The concept thus represents a departure from, and an alternative to, the incumbent anonymous peer review process, in which non-disclosure of these identities toward the public – and toward the authors of the work under review – is default practice. The open peer review concept appears to constitute a response to modern criticisms of the incumbent system; therefore, its emergence may be partially attributed to these phenomena.

Impact factor: often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones.

p/s: some usefull information to be understood.. =)

Journal Rankings on Electrochemistry

1) Biosensors and Bioelectronics (Netherland)
2) Electrochemistry Communications (Netherland)
3) Journal of Power Sources (Netherland)
4) Electrochimica Acta (Netherland)
5) International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Netherland)
6) Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical (Netherland)
7) Solid State Ionics (Netherland)
8) Bioelectrochemistry (Netherland)
9) Journal of Electrochemical Society (USA)
10) Electrochemical and Solid State Letters (USA)
11) Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry (Germany)
12) Chemical Vapour Deposition (UK)
13) Sensors (Swiss)
14) Journal of Applied Electrochemistry (Netherland)
15) Ionics (Germany)
16) International Journal of Electrochemical Science (Serbia)
17) Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (Swiss)
18) Electrochemistry (Japan)


This ranking is based on SCImago Journal and Country Rank

Science master ke Master science??

Entri kali ni brbincang tentang situasi yg dialami pelajar postgrad skrg.."Science master atau master science?"

Persoalan ni mula dialami oleh pelajar siswazah tinggi (yg buat masters) ketika mereka hampir menamatkan pengajian mereka..Klau dulu ms kita awal2 jumpa dgn supervisor menyatakan hajat nk buat masters, pd awalnye mmg kte ni dikategorikan dlm kelas yg tak tau apa2 (mengenai bidang yg kita akan buat), tetapi selepas 1-2 tahun bertungkus lumus menyiapkan kerja penyelidikan kita, adakah kita betul2 sudah tahu atau "master" bidang yg kita buat? adakah cukup dengan sekadar "kelentong" atau "auta" supervisor kita dan audience yg dgr presentation kita??

Perkataan "master" itu sendiri cukup menggambarkan tahap yg sepatutnya kita capai selepas beberapa tahun brgelumang dgn kerja penyelidikan kita..disitu lah kita timba ilmu melalui pelajaran sendiri (melalui pembacaan jurnal, buku atau apa2 risalah) , nasihat dari penyelia (melalui pengalaman beliau atau pengetahuan beliau), pengalaman masa sedang buat kerja penyelidikan (experiment berjaya atau tak melalui pengubahan parameters), perbincangan bersama pakar dalam bidang berkaitan, senior atau kawan yg buat bidang yg sama dan sebagainya..inilah yg secara tak langsung membuatkan kita "master" dalam sesuatu bidang..

"Master" ni bukan sesuatu gelaran yg diberi dari penerimaan ijazah atau scroll, tetapi gelaran ini kita dapat sendiri secara sulit..sulit disini membawa maksud bahawa kita dianugerakan gelaran ini bukan secara formal, tetapi informal (tanpa kita sedar) setelah kita betul2 pakar dengan bidang yg kita buat..even berapa banyak penerbitan pun belum cukup menggambarkan bahawa orang tu dh betul2 "master"..sebab skrg ni ramai jek org yg "sembang lebat" tetapi natijahnya dia hanya dok pusing2 dan "auta" jek lebih..

Jadi kepada kawan2 atau adik2 yg sedang buat master dan hampir tamat pengajian (tgh tulis tesis/tgh siapkan labwork), adakah kita dh betul2 "master" dgn bidang yg kita buat atau x? adakah kita dh bersedia utk menjawab semua soalan masa viva atau jawab soalan reviewer manuscript kita?? tepuk dada, tanya selera..


p/s: selamat jalan buat "sobat" rapat Nofrizal Syamsudin yg dh selamat pulang ke Indonesia setelah tamat pengajian masters..Selamat Hari Raya Haji kepada semua!!!