With the increasing awareness and hard work demonstrated by the UTAR academics, the university is confident of further growth in terms of number of publications accepted by Scopus and Thomson Reuters Web of Science Database in the years to come.

The cumulative number of publications accepted by the Scopus database increased from 1154 in 2012 to 1414 in 2013.  Figure 1 below indicates the progress shown by UTAR researchers at UTAR from year 2002 until 2013.

Figure 1 : UTAR Publication (SCOPUS)

The citation for articles (indexed in Scopus) increased from 1216 in 2012 to 1517 in 2013. The cumulative citation was 2800 in 2012 and rose to 4317 in 2013 as shown in Figure 2 below.

Figure 2 : UTAR Citation (SCOPUS)

For the publication accepted by Thomson Reuters Web of Science database, Figure 3 below indicate the progressive improvement over the years until year 2013.

Figure 3 : UTAR Publication (Thomson Reuters Web of Science)

The citation for articles (indexed in Thomson Reuters Web of Science) increased from 761 in 2012 to 962 in 2013. The cumulative citation was 1739 in 2012 and rose to 2701 in 2013 as shown in Figure 4 below.

Figure 4 : UTAR Citation (Thomson Reuters Web of Science)

The cumulative impact factor (Thomson Reuters Web of Science) for UTAR stood at 315.29 in year 2013 (based on data generated on 29 January 2014). Figure 5 below indicates the growth in cummulative impact factor for the University per year.

Figure 5 : Cumulative Impact Factor (Thomson Reuters Web of Science)