Faculty of Business and Finance senior lecturer, Garry Tan Wei Han’s research paper entitled, “NFC Mobile Credit Card: The Next Frontier of Mobile Payment?” unlocked another achievement when it was recently awarded the “Top Cited Author (2014-2017)” by Elsevier (USA) for the Telematics and Informatics Journal.

The research paper was awarded based on the number of citations received, which was 138 citations from 2014 to 2017. It was co-written by Ooi Keng Boon from UCSI University, Chong Siong Choy from the Finance Accreditation Agency and Hew Teck Soon from University of Malaya.

In addition to the other achievements, the “NFC Mobile Credit Card: The Next Frontier of Mobile Payment?” was also published in the book, titled “Mobile Phone Behaviour” (2017) by the author Zheng Yan, an Assoc Prof at the State University of New York in Cambridge University Press.

Tan's research focuses mainly on the behaviour of consumer in the adoption of mobile commerce. He has been acknowledged as the world’s “10 Most Productive and Influential Authors in Mobile Commerce and Applications” by Thomson WOS Publications between 2000-2015 and also one of the "Top 10 Authors in the World" in the area of Online Banking, Information Technology and TAM by Thomson WOS Publications between 1998-2017.