AWARDS & EVENTS
Elsevier Most Downloaded Article
Marking another milestone of the groundbreaking
research conducted in UTAR is Faculty of Business and Finance Tutor Hew
Jun Jie with his "Telematics & Informatics Most Downloaded Article (May
- July 2016)" award that he recently received from Elsevier (USA)'s
Telematics and Informatics journal.
Titled "Hall of fame for
mobile commerce and its application: A bibliometric evaluation of a
decade and a half (2000-2015)", the award-winning research paper centres
on evaluating the current development and trends of researches on mobile
commerce and its application through bibliometric analysis.
Apart
from his paper being recognised as the most downloaded paper, Hew's
paper also serves as a forerunner in using bibliometric analysis in the
Web of Science database. He also foresees the paper benefitting
researchers by identifying potential research directions, and eventually
being a guide to potential researchers and practitioners in this
research field.
Currently, UTAR is ranked the third among the most
productive institutions in the research discipline of mobile commerce
and its application, and adding to that success are FBF Senior Lecturers
Garry Tan Wei Han and Leong Lai Ying, who have been identified in the
list of most productive authors. This success also draws attention to
Malaysia as being one of the top ten most productive countries in this
research field.
Telematics and Informaticsis an interdisciplinary
journal examining the social, economic, political and cultural impacts
and challenges of information and communication technologies, and is
currently indexed with Thomson Reuters (ISI); Social Sciences Citation
Index (SSCI), with Impact Factor (IF) of 2.261.