There will be a seminar at LSIBF as follows:
The Labuan Bulletin of International Business & Finance (LBIBF), a refereed journal published by the LSIBF, is now indexed in Econlit (click here). Econlit, the American Economic Association’s electronic database,provides indexing and abstracts of the worldwide literature on economics, now covering more than 800 major economics journals annually. It is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature.
I came across this interesting ranking page provided by the W. P. Carey School of Business (click here). This site provides annual ranking of the top 20 institutions based on the number of articles published in the top 4 finance journals:
LSIBF would like to congratulate Dr Rosita Chong and her team members for their success in the eScience Fund application, a very competitive national grant under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). Their project, “The Development of Intelligent Ethical Wealth Planner”, received a total funding of RM226,043 for the duration of one year from June 2010 to May 2011.
On June 16, 2010, LSIBF organized a “PhD Tutorial” for its academic staffs who will further their PhD studies later this year. The tutorial was conducted in 4 different sessions, i.e. Finance, Islamic Finance, International Business and Financial Economics. In this just-concluded event, 9 academic staffs presented their respective proposals. The invited discussants provided valuable comments that cover the aspects of feasibility, limitations, challenges, and potential directions/extensions, which will help the participants to further improve their proposals.
The school would like to thank Prof. Dr. Obiyathulla Ismath Bacha, Prof. Dr. Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman, Prof Dr. Syed Azizi Wafa Syed Khalid Wafa and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wong Hock Tsen for their contributions to this event (the schedule can be downloaded here).
LSIBF would like to congratulate its staff, Hanudin Amin, for winning the Highly Commended Award at the Emerald Literati Network 2010 Awards for Excellence.
Below is the email from the editor/publisher:
“Every year Emerald invites each journal’s Editorial Team to nominate what they believe has been that title’s Outstanding Paper and up to three Highly Commended Papers from the previous 12 months.
Your paper has been included among these and I am pleased to inform you that your article entitled “What makes undergraduate students enroll into an elective course? The case of Islamic accounting” written by Hanudin Amin, Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman & T. Ramayah published in International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management has been chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2010.
The award winning papers are chosen following consultation amongst the journal’s Editorial Team, many of whom are eminent academics or managers. Your paper has been selected as it was one of the most impressive pieces of work the team has seen throughout 2009. …..“
LSIBF would like to congratulate its staffs (Ricky Chee-Jiun Chia, Tai-Hu Ling and Kian-Ping Lim) and postgraduate student (Shiok-Ye Lim) for the publication or acceptance of their respective papers. The details are as follows:
“Area of Expertise” refers to the area where one is a specialist in knowledge of and an authority on information in that particular area. In academia, professors are generally regarded as the qualified experts, because they are supposed to be promoted primarily on the basis of their research achievements.
When I was the managing editor of Labuan Bulletin of International Business and Finance, I often need to seek the expertise opinion of a referee to evaluate the contribution of the submitted manuscript. To find the suitable referee, I would use Google Scholar, Scopus or ISI/WoS. Sometimes, I found that some professors in my discipline did not have many publications in the area they were supposed to profess. At the other extreme, there were some academics who have published extensively in a particular area yet did not even have a PhD. When such situation arose, I often opted for the latter. In my view, a solid publication record is a necessary (or even a sufficient) condition for an academic to be labeled as “expert”.
After returning to Malaysia, I often heard academics with PhD claimed that their “area of expertise” is XXX. Again, a PhD does not qualify one to be an expert. It is just a recognition that the successful candidate has proven his/her ability to conduct independent research, and that the PhD thesis materials are publishable (sometimes, due to varying reasons, the potential of publishable never fulfilled). A 3-4 year of rigorous PhD training helps the candidate to develop an area of specialization, but he/she still needs to further research and publish before that area becomes his/her “area of expertise”. Even someone without PhD can become an expert in his field, as long as he has solid publication records.
I always look up to John Creedy, the Truby Williams Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne (check his bio here). In terms of academic qualifications, Prof. John Creedy has a B.Sc. (Economics with Statistics) from the University of Bristol, and a B.Phil. (Economics) from Oxford University. A quick check of his CV reveals that he was promoted to Professor of Economics at Durham University in 1978, 6 years after he obtained his B.Phil. Even without master and PhD degrees, Prof. John Creedy is widely regarded as an expert in economics. His excellent publication records include 32 books, 17 edited books, 54 book chapters, and 234 journal articles. He is often ranked as the top economist in Australia (see, for example, Macri and Sinha, 2006, and references cited therein).
Starting 2010, there will be changes to Times Higher Education’s annual World University Rankings (read here).
Some interesting items for reading pleasure:
(Going Global 4)In my previous blog entry on the “Quality of Journal Publication“, I have discussed WoS, Scopus and the ERA.
Another useful source for academics to assess journal quality is provided by Professor Anne-Wil Harzing at her website. Prof Anne-Wil has compiled the Journal Quality List, which is now in its 36th edition (the zip file can also be downloaded here).
A quick link is provided below to other relevant resources on journal quality at Prof Anne-Wil’s website: