Impact of International Coauthorships to A Young Malaysian University Specializing in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Cheng Yee Ng; Zahiraniza Mustaffa; Kurian V John

doi:10.14429/djlit.39.5.14699

Cheng Yee Ng Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Zahiraniza Mustaffa Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Kurian V John Providence College of Engineering, Chengannur, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.39.5.14699

Keywords: International co-authorship, Impact of citation, Young university, STEM, Internationalisation

Abstract

Internationalization is defined as a process of integrating an international, intercultural, or global dimension into the teaching and learning of education. International co-authorship in research article is one of the means of collaboration towards internationalization. This paper investigates the impact of international co-authorship in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for a specialised young university (<50 years old). The study focused on approximately 9450 articles and the citations ranging from 2012-2017. The impact due to annual article publication, annual citation count, most cited article, annual citation per article and the correlation between the publication and citation were analysed. The finding shows that faculty members of the university have been collaborated with authors from 86 countries since 1997, which dominated by Asian institutions. Amongst, top 30 countries with highest international co-authored publications were identified, which led by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, India, United Kingdom and Japan. Further in detail, annual citation per article (C_pp) showed that collaborations with European countries e.g. Spain, Netherlands, and Hungry, resulting greater mean C_pp. On the other hand, the analysis on the cumulative citation trend illustrated that the citation count is proportional to the number of articles. This study evinced that international co-authorship does show positive impacts to a STEM specialised young university.

Author Biographies

Cheng Yee Ng, Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Dr Ng Cheng Yee is PhD in Civil Engineering (Floating Offshore Structures), Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia. Her area of expertise are Offshore engineering, offshore renewable energy, floating offshore structures, wave-structure interactions and wave hydrodynamics.

Zahiraniza Mustaffa, Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Dr Zahiraniza Mustaffa is PhD in Pipeline Reliability & Probabilistic Design, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. She is an Assoc. Prof. in Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia. Her area of expertise are Offshore Engineering: pipeline engineering, non-metallic pipelines, pipeline reliability and integrity, water resources engineering: hydraulic structures, urban hydraulics.

Kurian V John, Providence College of Engineering, Chengannur, India

Dr Kurian V. John is PhD. in Offshore Structures, Indian Institute of Technology, India. He is Professor in Providence College of Engineering, Alappuzha, Kerala, India. His area of expertise are offshore engineering and structural engineering.