Research article in 2015 SST Highlights Collection

by Dr. T. Nandha Kumar The research article “Modeling of bipolar resistive switching of a nonlinear MISM memristor” by the doctoral research students Firas Odai Hatem and Patrick W. C. Ho and under the supervision of Dr. T. Nandha Kumar and Prof. Haider A. F. Almurib has recently been selected by the editorial board of …

Satellite remote sensing for monitoring construction project

Led by Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu, School of Geography, a multidisciplinary team of UNMC developed an automated system for progress monitoring of key repetitive construction activities in linear infrastructure projects. Initiated from a brief chat between two old friends, Dr. Vu and Mr. Ioannes Tang, Department of Civil Engineering, the project idea was formulated on the …

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)

In almost every aspect of our lives, we have a unique identifier, enabling us to be uniquely identified. This might be a student/staff ID, a bank account number, a customer reference for a utility service etc. You are little more than a number inside an IT system! When you create an account with a journal, …

Top Cited Papers for 2011 and 2012 in Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

by Denny Ng Kok Sum   Top Cited Papers for 2011 and 2012 in Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Two papers from Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies (CEGT), University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus are among the top cited papers for years 2011 and 2012 in a Springer journal, i.e. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy …

Protein-based fluorescent metal nanoclusters for small molecular drug screening

Published in Chemical Communication by Dr New Siu Yee and colleagues, the work looks into developing a facile drug screening method based on synthesis of fluorescent gold nanoclusters inside albumin proteins loaded with small molecular drugs and comparing the relative fluorescence intensities of the resultant gold nanoclusters has been developed and successfully applied for the quantitative …

‘Smart’ drugs won’t make smart people smarter

It is claimed one in five students have taken the ‘smart’ drug Modafinil to boost their ability to study and improve their chances of exam success. But new research into the effects of Modafinil has shown that healthy students could find their performance impaired by the drug. The study carried out by Dr Ahmed Dahir …

2013 ISI Impact Factors

Thomson Reuters have just released the 2013 impact factors. You are able to access these through Web of Knowledge, and then choosing Journal Citation Reports. If you have problem accessing the information, please contact IS Support. There is oftena  debate about whether metric driven research is a good or a bad thing. In the Malaysian …

UNMC Publications 2014: How are we doing?

In our irregular review of UNMC’s publication record, below are the Web of Science and Scopus publications that we have recorded for 2014. As we approach the half way point of the year, it seemed a good time to take stock. As part of trying to streamline the MyRA data collection we will be working …

E-Staff Profile: PLEASE update

When we do our MyRA return, we now take the ISI/Scopus publications from those bibliographic search engines. For our other pubications (e.g. most conference proceedings, most book chapters, non-ISI/Scopus publications etc.) we rely on you entering this data into your E-Staff Profile (ESP). In fact, you should enter all your publications into ESP as, although …

UNMC Publications 2014 – thus far

In our irregular review of UNMC’s publication record, below are the Web of Science and Scopus publications that we have recorded for 2014. Thank you to all those that have helped us make such a good start to 2014. Hopefully there are a lot more in the pipeline. As part of trying to streamline the …