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GUIDELINES FOR PUBLICATION IN FULFILMENT OF GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS FOR
POSTGRADUATE CANDIDATES

Publication(s) produced by postgraduate candidates in fulfilment of graduation requirements must
comply with the following criteria:

CRITERIA REMARK
1. Type of Publications (1) Research article or review article in journals indexed in:
(a) Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection
databases (https:apps.webofknowledge.com)
• Science Citation Indec Expanded TM
• Social Sciences Citation Index and
• Arts & humanities Citation Index
(b) *Scopus (https://www.scopus.com/);or
(c) *Malaysian Citation Index (MyCite)(http://www.mycite.my/)

(2) *Books published by publishers listed in:
(a) Web of Science (WoS) Master Book
List (http://wokinfo.com.com/mbl/publishers/)
(b) Malaysian Scholarly Publishing Council or
Majlis Penerbitan Ilmiah Malaysia
(MAPIM) (https://www.um.edu.my/research-and-
community/information-for-researchers/downloads/myra)
(c) Any publishers listed and recognized by Academic
Responsible Centre (PTj)

*Only applicable to candidate pursuing programmes in the field of
Arts and Social Sciences.
2. Authorship Publications must be published with the supervisor(s). The
supervisor shall act as the corresponding author. In the event that
the candidate has more than one supervisor, one of them shall be
the corresponding author.
The candidate must be the first author, or either the second or
subsequent author after the supervisor(s), or the first student
author. In the event, two or more candidates co-author in an article,
only one candidate is allowed to use this article to fulfil his/her
graduation requirement.
3. Authorship Candidate must provide a copy of authorship document that was
Agreement submitted to the respective publishers (e.g. Authorship
Agreement/Form or Statement of Authorship or cover letter of
article submission), confirming all the named authors have agreed
to publication.
4. Timing Publications accepted must be within the candidature of the
candidate.
5. Topic of publications Publications must be related and conform to the candidate’s
research in his/her thesis/dissertation.