July 31, 2025

  The sharing session took place on Thursday, 24th July 2025, at the Al-Ghazali Conference Room, KOED. The speaker, Madam Faizah Shahbuddin, KOED Liaison Officer, introduced useful databases to help researchers identify journals that best match their abstracts or keywords. She also highlighted the characteristics of predatory journals and low-quality conferences, citing the International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) as an example. Additionally, she provided a demonstration on how to merge Scopus IDs and retrieve ORCID IDs.  

The speaker, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ismail Hussein Amzat, shared his valuable personal experiences in publishing in indexed journals and books. He offered practical tips for publishing with reputable publishers such as SAGE, Routledge, Springer, and Taylor & Francis, with a detailed explanation of each component of a scholarly article—including the introduction, literature review, methodology, findings, discussion, and implications. It is hoped that the session inspired and motivated participants to submit their manuscripts to indexed publications in the near future.