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The 2nd ASEAN Citation Index (ACI) Meeting for Steering Committee October 27th, 2014

Holiday Inn Resort Phuket Mai Khao Beach, Phuket, Thailand

Results of the Discussion on ACI further actions and Implementations

1. ACI Steering Committee 1.1 The meeting acknowledged the 7 ASEAN member countries’ nomination of their representatives to serve as the ACI Steering Committee members. The meeting also took note that Indonesia and the Philippines have changed their representatives to serve as members of the ACI Steering Committee.

1.2 As for the change of country’s representatives to serve as the ACI Steering Committee members, the official letter from each country informing of this matter is requested to send to the Office of the Higher Education Commission, Thailand as the host country of the ACI Secretariat for further reference.

List of Committee members appears below:

Country Committee members Cambodia -‐ Awaiting -‐ Indonesia 1. Prof. Edy Soewono

2. Prof. Lsamin (replaced Prof. Ismunandar) Brunei Darussalam -‐ Awaiting -‐ Lao PDR 1. Assoc.Prof.Dr. Phosy Chanhming

2. Mr. Chansy Phuangsouketh Malaysia 1. Ms. Anita Binti Bahari Myanmar -‐ Awaiting -‐ Philippines 1. Dr. Napoleon Juanillo (replaced…………?)

2. Dr. Allan Sioson Thailand 1. Prof.Dr. Narongrit Sombatsompop

2. Dr. Nongyao Premkamolnetr Singapore 1. Prof. Michael Khor Khiam Aik Vietnam 1. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Quoc Hoi

2. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dinh Phi Ho

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2. ACI journal submission workflow

The meeting agreed on the ACI journal submission workflow as proposed by the TCI. For the countries namely Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia that have already established their National Citation Index centers, they will select and review their journals, then send them to the ACI Secretariat for inputting into the ACI database system. For countries that have not yet established their NCI, the ACI Secretariat will take the evaluation process. The workflow appears as Annex 1.

3. The 1st batch for Thai journals in the ACI The meeting approved the 41 Thai journals as proposed by the TCI to be included in the ACI database. List of the 41 journals appears as Annex 2.

4. List of local journals by all ASEAN member countries with some analyses of the listed journals (pre-‐evaluation) The meeting agreed that each country will collect a list of existing local academic journals and categorize them into 3 groups−Poor, Fair, Good. Such list will be presented in the next ACI Committee Meeting.

5. Vision of ACI (aiming at solving common challenges and leverage of ASEAN uniqueness) Regarding Mr. Inn Beng Lee’s presentation on ‘Expectations of ACI: Is Going Global Necessary?’ (appears as Annex 3), the vision of ACI was proposed whether the ACI will be an abstract and index (A&I) database that index ASEAN region best journals or a renowned regional citation database, a showcase of ASEAN research.

The meeting discussed extensively about this issue as follows: 5.1 The uniqueness of ASEAN research areas should be considered in order to contribute to the showcase of ASEAN research. This can be done by using the ASEAN research strength areas identified at the 1st Conference on Pioneering ASEAN Higher Education Research Cluster hosted by Thailand in November 2010. Those strength areas could be further searched through the existing international database for identifying outstanding researchers, focused research areas and research collaboration. (This will be undertaken by the TCI.)

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5.2 The meeting also discussed the possibility of publishing the ASEAN research niche areas in the ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development which has been established for more than 20 years?.

5.3 There were some concerns arisen from the meeting regarding the gap of research development among ASEAN member countries. The meeting agreed that ACI should have paralleled approaches, one to pursue excellence, the other to improve the quality of research.

5.4 In order to promote the ACI visibility on a global level, the meeting suggested that the top researchers should be convinced to publish their breakthrough findings in journals indexed in the ACI. This can be done on the national level by giving recognitions to those researchers.

6. Country investment for sustaining the ACI (dependent on number of indexed journals) 6.1 The meeting acknowledged that the Office of the Higher Education Commission, Thailand has provided 3-‐year financial support for establishing the ACI amounting to 200,000 USD (from year 2011 -‐ 2015). After the end of OHEC funding in 2015?, ACI should seek for some source of funding from its’ member countries so as to secure the sustained implementation.

6.2 For the ACI sustainability, A financial-‐support scale depended on a number of journals indexed in the ACI was proposed by the TCI (appears as Annex 4). For example, if any member countries have 0-‐25 journal titles indexed in the ACI, they have to provide financial support amounting to 2,500 USD per year. The meeting widely discussed and agreed on the proposed scale which will be adopted after the next 1-‐2 years.

7. Implementation plans for promoting ACI visibilities (national database, local workshops, ACI as part of higher education institutions) In order to raise the profile of ACI among ASEAN member countries, the meeting considered that a number of actions/activities should be carried out such as creating the national citation database, organizing local workshops, and promoting ACI as part of Higher Education graduation and accreditation systems.

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8. Collaboration with other databases The meeting also considered the possibility to collaborate with the existing national/international databases such as KCI, Chinese, Taiwanese, Scopus, etc. However, the meeting viewed that ACI has just launched in the early stage of which contains only 41 journals, such further action will be done for the time being.

9. The 3rd ACI Meeting for Steering Committee

The meeting agreed that the 3rd ACI Meeting for Steering Committee will be hosted by Thailand tentatively on 30 April 2015 in Bangkok.

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Annex 1. ACI journal submission work flowI

Fill in the ACI title suggestion form by editor

Do not review this title

No Yes

No Yes

Review this title via ACI online evaluation form

Reviewers selected byTCI, MCC, IDCI

Reviewers selected by ACI secretariat

pre‐selection by ACI secretariat

Final decisionby ACI Steering Committee

Reject this titleAccept this title

for ACI

Annex 2. List of 1st batch for Thai journals in ACI

No. Titles Indexed Note

1 Asian Biomedicine Scopus, ISI, TCI

2 Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Scopus, ISI, TCI

3 Chiang Mai Journal of Science Scopus, ISI, TCI

4 Maejo International Journal of Science and Technology

Scopus, ISI, TCI

5 ScienceAsia Scopus, ISI, TCI

6 The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Scopus, ISI, TCI

7 The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine Scopus, ISI, TCI

8 ECTI Transactions on Electrical Eng., Electronics, and Communications

Scopus, TCI

9 Engineering Journal Scopus, TCI

10 Journal of Health Research Scopus, TCI

11 Kasetsart Journal (Natural Science) Scopus, TCI

12 Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology

Scopus, TCI

13 Walailak Journal of Science and Technology Scopus, TCI

14 Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Scopus, TCI

15 The Thai Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Scopus, TCI

16 Kasetsart Journal (Social Sciences) Scopus, TCI

17 Chiang Mai University Journal of Natural Sciences

Scopus, TCI

18 EnvironmentAsia Scopus, TCI

19 Thai Journal of Agricultural Science Scopus, TCI

20 Environment and Natural Resources Journal TCI Score 17, All of English language


21 Silpakorn University Science and Technology Journal

TCI Score 17, All of English language

22 Thailand Statistician TCI Score 17, All of English language

23 International Journal of Agricultural Technology


24 International Journal of Renewable Energy TCI Score 16, All of English language

25 Journal of Population and Social Studies TCI Score 16, All of English language

26 Outbreak, Surveillance and Investigation Reports


27 Suranaree Journal of Science and Technology TCI Score 16, All of English language

28 Thammasat International Journal of Science and Technology


29 Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research


30 Rangsit Journal of Arts and Sciences TCI Score 15, All of English language

31 Thammasat Review TCI Score 15, All of English language

32 KMUTT Research and Development Journal TCI Score 18 - titles, abstract, author names and affiliations (Thai & English)

- cited references (English)

33 Applied Environmental Research TCI Score 16 - titles, abstract, author names and affiliations (Thai & English)

- cited references


(English)

34 Journal of Public Health and Development TCI Score 16 - titles, abstract, author names and affiliations (Thai & English)


35 Journal of Sports Science and Health TCI Score 16 - titles, abstract, author names and affiliations (Thai & English)


36 Songklanagarind Medical Journal TCI Score 16 - titles, abstract, author names and affiliations (Thai & English)


37 The Journal of Industrial Technology TCI Score 16 - titles, abstract, author names and affiliations (Thai & English)


38 The Journal of King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok

TCI Score 16 - titles, abstract, author names and affiliations (Thai & English)


39 University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce Journal

TCI Score 16 - titles, abstract,


author names and affiliations (Thai & English)


40 Isan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences TCI Score 15 - titles, abstract, author names and affiliations (Thai & English)


41 KKU Engineering Journal TCI Score 15 - titles, abstract, author names and affiliations (Thai & English)


Annex 3. Expectations of ACI: Is Going Global Necessary?

By Mr. Inn Beng Lee

EXPECTATIONS OF ACI Is Going Global Necessary? Lee Inn Beng Director, Customer Discovery and Innovation (CDI)

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ACI Progress Road Map November 27th, 2010 Inaugural Conference on Pioneering ASEAN Higher Education

Research Clusters, at Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok – Concept for ASEAN Citation Index (ACI) Database, Prof. Narongrit Sombatsompop – The importance of Synergizing Research Visibility of ASEAN Countries, and some ideas to consider, Lee

Inn Beng

June 27th – 28th, 2011 Member Countries Representatives Meeting – Held at TCI Center, at KMUTT, attended by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Elsevier – Malaysia started on the development of its Malaysia Citation Index in March 2011 – Indonesia on May 2011 – Most important, all four countries present pledge allegiant to the forming of ACI, and adopt to

implement standardize data structure, and journal selection criteria – Aim to establish ACI as renown regional Citation database

August 19th, 2013 The 1st ACI Workshop for its Steering Committee, at Pullman Bangkok King Power Hotel – Appointed the steering committee, agreed on functions of the committee, Journals selection process,

Quality Assurance matters, and budgetary issues

October 27th, 2014 The 2nd ACI Steering Committee Meeting, at Holiday Inn Resort Phuket Mai Khao Beach, Phuket, Thailand

2 Source: Viewpoints on synergising ASEAN academic visibilities through research collaboration and the establishment of an ASEAN Citation Index Database, Asia Pacific Viewpoint Volume 52, Issue 2, pages 207–218, August 2011

1. Designing and approving the standard indicators and database characteristics

2. Designing and modifying the criteria to evaluate and select journals to include in ACI

3. Working with sub-committee, national and international partners

4. Seek funding and support

5. Approval of budget for ACI related activities

ACI Steering Committee: Roles

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An A&I database that index ASEAN region Best Journals or

Establish ACI into a Renowned Regional Citation Database, a showcase of ASEAN Research

How? – Provide a central repository (ACI) to collect and showcase best of ASEAN focused

research and NOT merely Best ASEAN Journals. Along the way, we want to:

1. Establish World class ASEAN focused Research Journals

2. Encourage wider regional collaboration, even better international collaboration

3. We like to achieve both!

Why? – Increase the visibility of ASEAN research and drive improvement of ASEAN Journal

quality

ACI Steering Committee: Vision and Ambition?

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ACI as a Place for Unique World Class ASEAN focused research: Challenges ahead:

What are the CHALLENGES ahead?

– Do we have enough ASEAN focus research? – Do we have enough resources, manpower to support

ongoing expenses needed to operate ACI?

– ability to GAIN researchers’ mindshare. Not limiting this to ASEAN researchers only.

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Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) establish the Chinese Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database in 1988 – Indexed close to 2,000 Journals – Included about 30 millions articles, conference proceedings and books – First report ranking China Institutions research output and Journal performance in 1990

National Institute of Informatics (NII) started to construct in 1995,

completed in 2000, known as Citation Information by NII (CINII), pronounced like "sigh-knee” – CINII incorporates 15 million articles from over 1,000 Journals

In March 2001, Korean Academy of Medical Sciences (KAMS), initiated the

Korean Medical Citation Index (KoMCI), launched in March 2003. National Research Foundation of Korea, launched Korean Citation Index (KCI) in 2008 – KoMCI indexed over 400 Medical and Health Science journals – KCI indexed 2,128 Korean Science, Engineering, Humanities and Social Science

We just got started, there are a few ahead of us

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There is not question, these National A&I databases made comparison of Journals performance and quality in these countries more objective and transparent, as result: – Have helped improve the quality of the journals indexed, and

– Gain wider recognition of these journals at national level. But…

Have they become the place potential collaborators go to learn about best research or researchers in these countries?

Have they help in gaining enough mind share among global researchers looking for journals to submit their manuscript?

Have they become first choice for researchers in their own country to submit the best manuscript to?

They started earlier. 10, 20 years ahead of us…

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Country Journals Indexed

Distribution of the Top 5 Journals Performance

Ranking in Q1

Subject

China 538 Q1(2); Q2(2); Q3(1) 18/81 28/158

Multidisciplinary Geology

Japan 459 Q1(1); Q2(3); Q2-Q3(1) 33/210 Physic & Astronomy (Miscellaneous)

Korea 171 Q1(1); Q2-Q3(3); Q3(1) 214/1583 Medicine (Misc.)

ASEAN Total 225

Singapore** 101 Q1(1); Q2(2); Q2-Q3(2), 14/81 Multidisciplinary

Malaysia 68 Q2(1); Q2-Q3(2); Q3 (1)

Thailand 23 Q2(3);Q3(2)

Philippines 21 Q2(2); Q3(1);

Indonesia 12 Q2(1); Q3(1);

Are there World Class Journals in Asia?

** Singapore 101 journals, WS(81); ES(11); NUS (4); Misc.(5) 8

1. The Journal online visibility

2. Reputation of the Journal Editor-in-chief and board members

3. Distribution of the country of origin of paper published

4. Distribution of the top affiliations whose authors publish with the journals

5. Percentage of International Collaborated Papers

Criteria for comparing world class journals

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Comparing PNAS and Chinese Science Bulletin

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Comparing Online Visibility, Country & Affiliation Distribution

PNAS Source: http://www.checkpagerank.net/

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Comparing Editorial Board Prestige

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Board member’s h-Index

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Comparing % of International Collaboration

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Year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

2005 2006

2007 2008

2009 2010

2011 2012

CSB PNAS

Source: Scimago Journal and Country Rank: http://www.scimagojr.com/

http://www.scimagojr.com/

PNAS Chinese Science Bulletin

Visibility PageRank = 8 PageRank = 9

Highly Prominent Editor-in-Chief Comparable

High Profile Editorial Board members. Over 200 hundreds

Comparable, limited to 20

Quality Published research from most prestigious universities, US top institutions, US#1 in Multidisciplinary Research

Top 10 universities are all from China. China ranked #14 in Multidisciplinary Research

High percentage of International Collaborated Papers. 25% to over 40%

Moderate level: lesser than 15%

Highly diverse source of articles from key research nations

90% of papers from China.

History Since 1915 Since 1956

Comparison Summary:

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After 10, 20 years of ‘ME too’ approach… – They have NOT become the place potential collaborators go to

learn about best research or researchers – They have NOT gain enough Global Researchers Mindshare – They is NOT the first Choice for their own researchers

ACI may consider “It’s Only ME” approach, becoming a unique collection of research (collaborated research) aiming at – Achieving ASEAN collective goal; – Solving common challenges; – Leveraging on ASEAN unique natural resources; biodiversity;

and climate

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Learning from China, Japan, S Korea Experience

It’s Only ME Approach

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• Benefit • Barrier • Already Exist

Collaboration

• Achieve Collective Goal • Solving Common Challenges • Leverage ASEAN Uniqueness

ACI Uniquely ASEAN • Visibility

• Quality

World Class

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Existing Regional Collaborations: Refocus?

Source: Higher Education in ASIA: Expanding out, Expanding Up, Chapter 4, Part 3 International Scientific Collaboration, UNESCO, May, 2014

Three existing regional collaboration clusters: – China-Singapore-Hong

Kong Cluster

– Malaysia-South Asia Cluster

– Thailand-ASEAN cluster

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DIFFERENT DEGREE OF COLLABORATION and IT’s IMPACT?

Source: Mathes Klaus, Director of international cooperation at BMBF,” A National Strategy for International Cooperation: The Vision of Germany,” Conference – Drivers of International Collaboration in Research, 13-14 October, 2008, Brussels

Establishing World Class Journals

The Quality of articles published is influence by the Visibility of the Journal

The Visibility of the Journal is dependent on the Quality of the articles it published

To establish a high IMPACT (World Class), journal must have high visibility and quality... Inherent quality

Visibility > Marketing Driven, Building Brand, Define the Ability to Attract… Quality > Process Driven Quality: eg, Good Journal Management Ultimately is the Inherent Quality that determines the visibility, and the probability of gaining indexed in international A&I Databases

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There are many obstacles ahead. Can the steering committee:

– Establish meaningful research focus for ASEAN researchers?

– Lobby for structural change for funding to encourage wider collaboration among researchers in ASEAN? Or More international collaboration?

– Provide more opportunities for ASEAN researchers to interact?

Consider potential partners to facilitate and help monitor progress of ASEAN research collaboration

We know the Benefits, Aware of the Barriers, Understand needs for World Class Journals

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Ambition for ACI becoming a Renowned Regional Citation Database – Put forward policy and needed funding that would create a vibrant and

sustainable efforts to encourage regional collaboration

– Take the Uniquely Me Approach by identifying meaningful, relevant research solving ASEAN common challenges

– Establish World Leading Journals with UNIQUE ASEAN Research focus

– Work towards establishing World Leading journals for ASEAN focus research

Leverage of potential partners which may help smoothen this

challenging journey to win over GLOBAL researchers’ mindshare.

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IS Going Global Necessary?: Conclusion

Annex 4. Country investment for sustaining the ACI

Number of Journal indexed in ACI(journal titles)

Financial support (USD per year)

0‐25 2,500 26‐50 5,000 51‐75 7,500 76‐100 10,000 101‐200 12,500 > 200 15,000

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