Malaysian computer science publications: A citation study (original) (raw)

This paper analyses the citation patterns of Malaysian computer science publications in the Web of Knowledge (WOK) from 1987-2007. This is the first study focusing on a citation analysis of Malaysian publication data in the field of computer science. The citation data consisted of searches of the WOK databases. The results showed a total of 481 citations with at least one citation for 125 articles. The average number of citations per publication is 0.95, which is low. The main channel of publication is conference proceedings, which account for approximately 64% of the 204 out of 321 articles. The total number of countries that cited Malaysian computer science articles is 43, with the highest counts from China. As expected, the highest citers of Malaysian computer science articles are Malaysian universities -Universiti Multimedia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and Universiti Malaya.