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FSES RESEARCH PROGRAMME HANDBOOK 2023/2024 ACADEMIC SESSION

GUIDELINES FOR PUBLICATION IN FULFILMENT OF GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS FOR
POSTGRADUATE CANDIDATES (SESSION 2017/2018 ONWARDS) (Senate Approval on
24.8.2017)

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

CRITERIA REMARK
1. Type of Publications
Publications (1) Research article or review article in journals indexed in:
(a) Web of Science Core Collection databases (https://apps.webofknowledge.com)
● Science Citation Index Expanded™,
● 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/mbl/publishers/)
(b) Malaysian Scholarly Publishing Council or Majlis Penerbitan Ilmiah Malaysia ( M A P I
M ) (https://www.um.edu.my/research-and-community/information-
forresearchers/downloads/myra)
(c) Any publishers listed and recognized by Academic Responsible Centre (PTj)

*Only applicable to candidates 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-authored 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 submitted to the respective
Agreement 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.
4. Timing Publications must be within the candidature of the candidate
5. Topic of Publications must be related and conform to the candidate’s research in his/her
publications thesis/dissertation
6. Affiliation Publications must carry the affiliation of the department and/or faculty where the candidate
is registered
7. Blacklisted Publications in journals blacklisted by the Malaysian Ministry of Education (MoE) are not
journals accepted:

(1) Academic Journal (www.academicjournals.org);
(2) Euro Journal Inc. (www.eurojournals.com);
(3) Common Ground Publishing (www.commongroundpublishing.com);
(4) Africa World Press Inc. (www.africaworldpressbooks.com).
The list of blacklisted journals is subject to change from time to time according to MoE.
8. Completion Candidates who have completed the examination of their thesis/dissertation must fulfil the
period publication requirement as set by the University before the expiry of their maximum period
of candidature.

Candidates who have completed their thesis/dissertation examination and reached their
maximum period of candidature but are yet to fulfil the stipulated publication requirement,
may be given a period of 12 months from the date of the final submission of thesis/
dissertation to do so. In this case, the application must be submitted to the Director of
Academic Administration and Services Centre (AASC) for approval.
If the candidates fail to fulfil the publication requirement within the approved period, they will
be terminated from the program of study and considered as failed.

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