“Two - Day High Impact Journal Writing and Publishing Workshop” purpose to trained, groom and encourage student and staff to publish their research finding in high impact journals. Nowadays its compulsory for students to publish in high impact journal to graduate master or PhD degree and for staff to fulfil KPI and get promotion or perish. This journal writing and publishing work-shop will also provide opportunities to the research officers, science officers, and graduate students to gather and exchange ideas to improve their own writings for publication in high impact journals and to contribute to the improvement of their KPI’s. UPM as well as other universities having pressure to publish High Impact Journal papers to increas-ing their international visibility through research publications and to meet the KPI of universities. This workshop is one of the efforts to encourage and assist researchers, staff and students from UPM and outside UPM to publish their research work in High Impact Journals. The aim of the workshops is to mentor participants in preparing their research findings for publication in an international journal. 1st day of workshop will deals about using Scopus and Science Direct to evaluate journals, authors and collaborators; Explain about writing good article step by step and how to publish it. 2nd day of workshop will covers; How to build up article before submission, submission process, Reply to reviewer comments and Proof reading. By the end of the 2nd half of the session, all participants will be expected to bring their manuscript to discuss how to improve it and submitted an article for publication to an interna-tional peer-reviewed journal in their area of research.

He is a senior professor of composite materials at Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He is currently head of Laboratory of Biocomposite Technology (BIOCOMPOSITE), Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), UPM, and also head of Composites Technol-ogy Research Program at UPM. He has pub-lished more than 450 journal papers and 400 conference papers. He has authored and edited 15 books in engineering. He has guided more than 40 PhD students and 40 MSc students. His H-index is 33.

He is currently working as Fellow Researcher at Laboratory of Biocomposite Technology (BIOCOMPOSITE), Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), UPM. So far he has published 4 books, 12 book chapters, and more than 100 international journal papers and 3 published review paper under Top 25 hot articles in Science Direct during 2013-2014. He is also the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Malaysian Polymer Journal and reviewer of several high impact ISI journals. His H-index is 17.

Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd Sapuan, PhD

Dr. Mohammad Jawaid, PhD3 - 4 June 2015

Gallery RoomFaculty Engineering

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Two - Day High Impact

Journal Writing and

Publishing Workshop

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3 June 2015 4 June 2015

Registration and morning refreshment

How to use Scopus and Science Direct for publishing your research work

Write good research article for publishing in high review impact journals

Review article from your litera-ture review - How possible to do

Lunch break

How to choose right journal for your articles and sharing session

Refreshment tea

Step by step for writing e�ec-tive research article (Title, Authorship, Abstract, Introduc-tion, Methodology, E�ective Table and Figures, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Refer-ences, Acknowledgement)

8.30 - 9.30 am

9.30 - 10.30 am

10.30 - 1130 am

11.30 - 12.30 pm

12.30 - 2.30 pm

2.30 - 3.30 pm

3.30 - 3.45 pm

3.45 - 5.00 pm

8.30 - 9.30 am

9.30 - 11.00 am

11.00 - 12.00 pm

12.30 - 2.30 pm

2.30 - 3.30 pm

3.30 - 3.45 pm

3.45 - 4.45 pm

4.45 - 5.00 pm

Tentative

Registration and morning refreshment

Checklist before submission of article and how to submit paper to journal

How to reply reviewer com-ments with real examples and proof reading

Lunch break

Sharing session and discus-sion on prepared manuscript from participants

Refreshment tea

Sharing session and discus-sion on prepared manuscript from participants

Distribution of certi�cate and feedback

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For further information and registration:

Secretariat WorkshopLaboratory of Biocomposite Technology,Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP),Universiti Putra Malaysia,43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor.

Mrs. Eli Rashidah AshariTel: 03 8946 7008 Fax: 03 8946 7012Email: elirash293@gmail.com

Mrs. Maznaliza MazlanTel: 03 8947 1788 Fax: 03 8947 1896Email: maznaliza.introp@gmail.com

UPM Sta� / student: RM 200

Normal participant: RM 300

OPEN TO ALL ACADEMICIANS, RESEARCHERS, SCIENCE

OFFICERS AND STUDENTS