How to achieve what you want? By Dr Shane Murphy

8 tactics of getting what you want:

1) Actionable focus: revert outcomes (might make you worry) to objectives (concentrate on what you focus to achieve an objective)

Step 1: Put your focus on an tangible and specific action 

Step 2: Set weekly and daily objectives

Step 3: Set difficult objectives 

Step 4: Operationalize objectives to make them clear and actionable 

Step 5: Seek for feedback regularly to examine progress 

2) Innovative thinking: use your imagination to plan and achieve your objectives

Step 1: Exploit your imagination 

Step 2: Imagine how will you achieve specific objective - plan ahead, use imaginary learning, imagine problem-solving methods 

Step 3: Establish a successful self-image

3) Positive analysis: Imagine you are a winner

- Step 1: Sense your inner voice

- Step 2: Position your character in the positive side

- Step 3: Replace whatsoever negativity with positivity

4) Stay calm when under pressure

Step 1: it does not matter to be nervous 

Step 2: learn how to relax your body and mind 

Step 3: be calm when you are under pressure 1 

5) Concentrate on your performance

Step 1: Gather your concentration 

Step 2: Apply performance signals (easy, positive and your strength) 

Step 3: Seek for ways to improve performance (get a coach) 

6) Use the power of emotion

Step 1: Do not suppress emotions, change them instead 

Step 2: Reset your ignition button 

Step 3: If you are frustrated, recollect your focal point

7) Enhance your energy when you need it

Step 1: increase your mental energy 

Step 2: Always get your power bank charged (good health, sleep and nutrition) 

8) Perseverance as a preparation for success

Step 1: Develop your personal success plan 

Step 2: Retain your plan under pressure 

Step 3: Expect accidents 

Bengkel Penerbitan dan Penulisan Artikel Systematic Literature Review

I am attending a workshop conducted by Dr Wan Azani Wan Mustafa. 

He wrote 60 articles in 1 year for the past 4 years (H-Index 15). 

We should write for WoS articles with impact factors (Q1 and Q2), "Kita yang macam2-kan sendiri, target yang paling tinggi." 

There is no method or results in SLR paper. 

Research article: methods & results.

SLR can be done in a room, no need to collect data. 

Every scholar in Malaysia must own 3 accounts: Google Scholar, SCOPUS ID, Publons Web of Science ResearcherID 

Purpose of academic writing: KPIs, reward, satisfaction

If your research is not published in a journal, it does not exist. 

Mitos: 

1. Artikel panjang tak semestinya accept. Tak tengok panjang pendek. 

Mistake: 

Do not wait! Target 1000, can start to write when you have around 300 (as the first paper); 700 (can be another paper); 1000 (3rd paper). 

研究员（包括我）经常犯的错误，就是等到数据收集完结后才做分析，才发文章。整个数据收集过程可以分成最少三次发文章的机会：早期（pilot study paper）、中期(interim analysis paper)和后期(research paper)。如果想收集的数据总量是1000人，早期分析（100人）、中期分析（500人）和后期分析（1000人）都可以发一篇文章。

Every June, Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) will release a report on citation indexed.

Netherland: SCOPUS = 21 areas (40,000 journals)

US: Web of Science = 15,000 journals in SCOPUS 

Q in SCOPUS is not same Q in ISI 

Quartile is based on impact factor, i.e. no impact factor, no Q.  

Q1 or Q2 in Web of Science ISI are the highest in the world. 

SCOPUS adalah badan indexing. 21 criteria must be fulfilled to be indexed by SCOPUS. 

SCOPUS keluarkan listing 3 kali setahun, boleh download di website SCOPUS. March

Must check with SCOPUS listing before submission. 

SCOPUS 

- Life sciences

- Health

- Physical science 

- Social science 

Not all WoS are ISI

Bukan semua WoS ada impact factor: 

- Only SCI expanded and SSCI are indexed with impact factor. 

Comments paper = 2 pages 

40 - 50 references for Research Article  

Review article

Comprehensive / critical review on specific research topic

Typically 15+ pages (not more than 20 pages), 5+ figures (copy from reviewed papers with full citation), table of summary and 70 - 200 references. 

Tak baca, tak download pun. 

Structure of a manuscript for Review Article

• Title 
• Affiliation 
• Abstract 
• Keywords
• 1. Introduction / Literature review
• 2. Conclusion/s
• Acknowledgements 
• References 

What is a Scoping Review? 

Scoping reviews have great utility for synthesizing research evidence and are often used to ca...

Must have The selection criterion in searching (inclusion and exclusion)

1. Kriteria untuk tentukan keywords = tengok tajuk sahaja  

2. Set tema 

3. 

How to boost SCOPUS H-Index?

 I was asked to boost my SCOPUS H-Index, from current 7 to 10 by 31 Aug 2022. H-Index 10 means I would need to have 10 SCOPUS indexed publication with 10 citation. In this sense Herewith the strategies and tactics to achieve the target: 

Passive approach 

1. Upload my publications in ResearchGate

2. Encourage past, current and future co-authors to cite those articles in their papers.

Active approach

1. Write reflection, concept or LR papers myself that would cite those papers.

- One article on Object-Oriented Programming 

- One article on STEM education

- One article on the potential of GBL

- One article on gamification

- One article on educational technology

2. Work with current and past postgraduate students to write conference papers and journal articles 

- Revisit completed postgraduate research, preliminary studies or pilot studies

- Write concept papers based on the proposed model, provisional framework, guiding principles to be tested in doctoral research proposal  

- Write scoping LR and/or systematic LR done for the proposed research topic and scope 

3. Work with current and future colleagues to write conference papers and journal articles  

量化博士研究进度

这几天在忙于审核马来西亚高教部的基础研究项目基金申请书，同时也完成了批改一份博士论文，日夜颠倒了。

处理这类烧脑的工作时，令我想起念博士时总有人问我博士念得怎么样了？什么时候毕业呢？为了应付这些问题，同时我自己也想明确地知道答案，我就画了一个hierarchical structure，把所有完成博士研究的工作量化并PERT chart 的形式呈现出来。

How to assess a programme?

1. Download all the documents provided by MQA

2. Print the MQA Programme Standard documents  

3. Assess each area of the programme based on the standard document.

General Flow of PhD Study in Creative Multimedia

Step 1: Literature review PLUS media (e.g. game, VR, XR, animation, film, etc) review

Step 2: Create a provisional theoretical framework for producing the chosen media which contains elements, components or variables being studied.  

Step 3: Produce an instance of the media based on the provisional framework.

Step 4: Develop data collection instruments (e.g. questionnaire survey, interview questions etc)

Step 5: Collect data from targeted research participants

Step 6: Analyze collected data using qualitative approach, quantitative approach or a mixed of both. 

Step 7. Revise the framework based on the research findings and suggest a list of guiding principles for others to use the framework 

Researcher Development Framework

It was a bliss to see a PhD student of mine took the initiative to learn AMOS for running SEM. This reminds me of the good old day when I was pursuing a PhD in Warwick Institute of Education. 

Back then, the Postgraduate Studies Institute conducted weekly courses or training programmes for all doctoral researchers. The institute was the training hub for Vitae (https://www.vitae.ac.uk/), where students from all universities located in the Midlands of England would come and join those courses. I considered myself as very lucky as I did not need to travel afar to take these courses, I rode on my red bicycle instead. 

In the initial meetings with my supervisors, Sue and Sean walked through the Researcher Development Framework with me, guiding me to plan for my research training programme. A balanced and established academic researcher should have sufficient knowledge and research skills in every quadrant. Ideally, a PhD student should plan and arrange suitable training for himself or herself through the course of 3 years study. Herewith the framework 

https://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/rdf-related/researcher-development-framework-rdf-vitae.pdf/view 

I attended almost all short and long term courses offered by Vitae in 2008 - 2010, and was chosen as one of the best doctoral student in the Midlands, England. Back then my intention was to learn as many as I can, so that I can teach postgraduate courses in UPSI upon the completion of my PhD. Ironically, until now, I have no experience of teaching any postgraduate course in UPSI.

I used to have several postgraduate students concurrently, while quite a lot of my colleagues do not have any student.  After becoming a supervisor, I organised courses for my postgraduate students in 2013 - 2015 on every Friday and Saturday, and the courses were occasionally attended by other supervisors' students. But after awhile, even my own students did not attend those courses. Worse, my colleagues complained to me that I had negatively influenced their students--their students wanted to change supervisors. So, I learned my lesson and stopped offering those courses. I also discovered that, my courses were threatening existing trainers who charged students for similar courses. From that point onward, my supervision strategy changed to one-on-one basis. Only when my student wants and needs to learn specific knowledge or skills in research, I will guide him or her. If the student stops, I stop as well.

These are my personal experience and opinion, and they cannot be referred as a standard practice in UPSI or any other institutions. I just do what I believe is good for the student.