MyCite is a Malaysian citation indexing system and a citation index database to increase the accessibility and visibility of Malaysian scholarly journals. It provides a yearly bibliometrics report on the performance of Malaysian journals that meet the quality criteria.

MyJurnal is an online system used by Citation and Infometric Division, MOHE to collect and index all the Malaysian journals. The Purpose of My Jurnal is to increase access, to encourage content usage and to improve visibility of the contents of Malaysian journals to the global community.

The JCR provides quantitative tools for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing journals. The impact factor is one of these; it is a measure of the frequency with which the “average article” in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period. IF is awarded to the journals indexed in Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports. Interestingly, IF is not available for all indexed journals.

The Journal Citation Indicator is designed to complement the JIF – the original and longstanding metric for journal evaluation – and other metrics currently used in the research community. In addition to the use of normalization, there are several key differences between the Journal Citation Indicator and the JIF.

For example, the Journal Citation Indicator’s calculation on three years of publications contrasts with the two-year window employed for the JIF. This three-year calculation enables the Journal Citation Indicator to be as current as possible, while also allowing more time for publications to accrue citations.

Quartile rankings are derived for each journal in each of its Web of Science (WOS) subject categories. In Journal Citation Reports, the quartile rankings are defined based on rank for the Journal Impact Factor and it is defined as the following:

Q1: 0% < Z ≤ 25% Highest ranked journals in a category
Q2: 25% < Z ≤ 50%
Q3: 50% < Z ≤ 75%
Q4: 75% < Z Lowest ranked journals in a category

Refer to Journal Citation Report (JCR) by Clarivate Analytic to determine Quartile ranking and Impact Factor for a journal.

h-index was proposed by J.E. Hirsch in 2005 and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The h-index is a metric for evaluating the cumulative impact of an author’s scholarly output and performance; measures quantity with quality by comparing publications to citations. The h-index corrects for the disproportionate weight of highly cited publications or publications that have not yet been cited. Several resources automatically calculate the h index as part of citation reports for authors

Predatory Journals take advantage of authors by asking them to publish for a fee without providing peer-review or editing services. Because predatory publishers do not follow the proper academic standards for publishing, they usually offer a quick turnaround on publishing a manuscript. In contrast, high quality academic journals take longer to publish articles because they go through a proper peer review and copy editing process. 

Open Access journals may solicit authors to publish for a fee, but maintain high standards for peer review and editing. The goal of Open Access publishing is to disseminate research to a larger audience by removing paywalls.

1. Do you or your colleagues know the journal? Do you recognize the editorial board?
2. Can you easily contact the publisher?
3. Is the journal clear about their peer review process?
4. Is it clear what fees will be charged?

If the answer is no for any of these questions, the journal is most likely questionable, if not predatory.