ABOUT MyCite
The Ministry of Education (MOE) Malaysia initiated the establishment of the Malaysian Citation Centre (MCC) in 2011. MCC is responsible for collating, monitoring, coordinating and improving the standard of scholarly journal publications in Malaysia. MCC will maintain a citation system, named MyCite or Malaysian Citation Index. MyCite will provide access to bibliographic as well full-text contents of scholarly journals published in Malaysia in the fields of Sciences, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences and the Humanities. Besides this, MyCite will provide citation and bibliometric reports on Malaysian researchers, journals and institutions based only on the contents within MyCite. It is estimated that there are over 500 Malaysian journals, the contents of which needs to be made visible globally so that Malaysian researchers can identify expertise, areas of possible collaboration, stimulate use and citations.
Publishers are encouraged to self-submit and archive the articles in their journals through the Malaysian Journal Management System (MyJurnal) so that their impact in Malaysia can be gauged.
MyCite currently contains [93379] articles from Malaysian scholarly journals. Publishers will be considered for MyCite indexation only if they meet all the criteria specified in the MyCite Journal Selection criteria.
MyCite will be responsible for:
Making MyCite the one stop centre for bibliometric reports and citation information about Malaysian publications especially those published in scholarly journals.
Recording all scholarly works produced in Malaysia.
Determining the procedures for rating Malaysian scholarly journals.
Promoting and internationalizing Malaysian scholarly journals.
Identifying services that can be packaged as products for commercialization.