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(2) Authorship Publications accepted 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 where two or
more candidates co-authored an article, only one
candidate is allowed to use this article to fulfil his/her
graduation requirement.

(3) Timing Publications accepted must be within the candidature
of the candidate.

(4) Topic of Publications accepted must be related and conform to
publications the candidate’s research in his/her thesis/dissertation.

(5) Affiliation Publications accepted must carry the affiliation of the
department and/or faculty where the candidate is
registered.

(6) Blacklisted Publications in the following journals are NOT
journals accepted:
• Publications in journals blacklisted by the

Malaysian Ministry of Education (MoE)
• Publications in Probable Predatory Journals
(http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/)
and Publishers
(http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/) and
hijacked journals
(http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/hijacked-
journals/) according to Beall’s List.

NOTE: Candidate must provide a copy of authorship document that was 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 has
agreed to publication.

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