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MISSION
OBJECTIVE
Annual Report 2014 105 iv High Impact Research
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overseas universities which can result in
HIR NEWS
publications in high impact journals
HIR NEWS The University of Malaya High Impact To promote multidisciplinary research
UM HIR BREAKING NEWS (18 September 2014) 77.0 Research (UM HIR) was the brainchild and research collaboration with local and
of our former Vice-Chancellor, Tan Sri
international reputation and world
UM Moved Up INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Dr. Ghauth Jasmon. To conduct world-class research
university ranking of the university
79.2
STUDENTS
Positions in the FACULTY REPUTATION agreed to provide RM10 million the Top 100 QS World University MISSION in niche areas and elevate the
In February 2010, Tan Sri VC
64.4
VISION
Rankings by 2015. In 2010, UM
per year from internal fund to
was placed 207 under the QS
2014 QS World
World University Rankings and
ACADEMIC
support fundamental research
11.1
1 publications. Recognizing the
to be ranked 167. In the 2014
16University CITATIONS PER OVERALL which will lead to ISI/WoS Tier in 2011, UM leapt 40 positions
QS ranking exercise, UM has
importance of UM as a premier
61.0
moved up to 151 position. In
FACULTY
research institution in the country,
the Ministry of Education Malaysia
order to meet its objective, HIR
Rankings 93.1 64.0 in August 2011 injected RM590 has extablished an International
SCORE
million into the UM-MoE HIR
Advisory Council consisting of
programme with the mandate
five prominent academic icons,
that UM must try to break into
In addition, the UM Bright Sparks
The latest QS World University Rankings was FACULTY EMPLOYER Background including three Nobel Laureates. VISION
programme aims to attract
REPUTATION
STUDENT
released on 16th September 2014 which showed postgraduate students and young
successful Malaysian
researchers to join HIR.
that UM has moved up 16 positions from 167 Since first being compiled UM has improved by 48% UKM, UTM).The New Straits Forge linkages with
in 2013 to 151 in 2014. This is the best UM has in 2004, the QS WUR has in citations per faculty, a criteria Times (17 September) reported scientists overseas
achieved since QS first published a ranking of the expanded to feature 863 tertiary which is objective and where that Second Education Minister 1
train young scientists in enhancing
Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh was
institutions around the world
the UM Research Community
world’s universities (see Figure 1). out of over 3,000 assessed. can be proud of. This gain is by proud of the outcome and
The rankings compare these
congratulated the universities
far the largest among the QS
top universities based on six indicators. However, there is still for their achievements. 2 Work with industry partners to
ivy-league universities and conduct
2014 151 indicators, namely academic much room for advancement On behalf of the UM
2013 167 reputation (40% weightage since the high impact scientific Research Community, HIR
2012 156 based on 63,676 academic and technological research is a would like to thank Prof. research skills
2011 167 responses), employer reputation key driver of leadership in the Dr. Awang Bulgiba Awang 3
Figure 1 : Ten Year 2010 207 (10%), student-to-faculty ratio QS World University Rankings. Mahmud, Deputy Vice- Establish international linkage with
Overall Ranking (20%), citations per faculty (20%), Figure 3 displays the faculty including Nobel Laureates
2009 180 Chancellor (Research &
2008 230 International faculty ratio (5%) & area results based on subject Innovation) & Chairman, collaborative research with academic icons, Target publications in top Tier 1 ISI/
2007 246 international student ratio (5%). disciplines. University Malaya Rankings 4 WoS journals , including Nature and
Figure 2 shows a summary of the
cutting edge equipment for use by UM
2006 192 results achieved by UM with an According to Bernama Committee, for compiling and
2005 169 News, Malaysian universities analysing the 2014 data and
overall score of 61.0. gained ground in this year’s helping UM to this ranking Science
QS WUR, with three being achievement. Set up a Central Core Facility housing 5
included in the top 300 (UM, as well as other local universities
168 205 67 QS WORLD FACULTY AREA ACADEMIC EMPLOYER CITATIONS H SCORE RANK 6
RANKING
ACADEMIC EMPLOYER FACULTY Arts & Humanities 68.8 83.4 55.5 27.9 66.3 159
Figure 2 : QS World REPUTATION REPUTATION STUDENT 2015-2015 Engineering & Technology 68.6 87.5 77.2 84.4 78.0 83 Figure 3 : Indicator Identify new and advancing 7
University Rankings Life Sciences & Medicine 65.4 85.7 55.1 40.4 58.6 298 technologies into research
FACULTY 151
2014-2015 weighted Contributions by research fronts and implement new
scores OVERALL RANKING Natural Sciences 87.1 Faculty Area
146 170 401+ 55.9 62.1 49.4 62.1 367
students to do
INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CITATIONS PER Social Sciences & Mgmt 64.3 84.8 85.2 60.0 72.1 123 Attract top notch postgraduate
STUDENTS FACULTY research and help meet national needs
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Australia Indonesia Singapore Thailand
Bond University Gadjah Mada University Genome Institute of Singapore Kaunas University of Technology
In August, the Deputy 167 in 2013 to 151 this year can Centre for Reference and Research on Mataram University Nanyang Technological University Mahidol University
Universitas Islam Indonesia
Naresuan University
Influenza
National University of Singapore
2014 has indeed been an exceptional year for HIR. Prime Minister and Minister of be partly attributed to the success Deakin University Iran Singapore Immunology Network United Arab Emirates
Griffith University
story of HIR.
Education, YAB Tan Sri Dato’
Heading towards its fourth year of funding, it has Hj Muhyiddin Hj Mohd Yassin Research Islamic Azad University Oman University Al-Ain
International Centre for Radio Astronomy
As Chairman of HIR, I would
made a number of achievements which, as HIR honored HIR by launching its like to extend my appreciation to Monash University Kharazmi University Pakistan United States
Sultan Qaboos University
Monash Medical Centre
Queensland University of Technology
Razi University
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Chairman, I am pleased to highlight in this book, “Touching Lives, Impacting all researchers for making good The Australian National University Sciences Ghulam Ishak Khan Institute of Engineering A&M University
Society”. This book traces the
Argonne National Laboratory
The Iranian Academic Center for Education
University of Tehran
The Prince Charles Hospital
Beckman Research Institute
Lahore University of Management Sciences
message. Since August 2011 to now, conceptualization of HIR and on their promises by meeting the The University of Queensland Ireland Spain California Institute of Technology
The University of Adelaide
targets set in their KPIs. I believe
The University of Sydney
Centers For Disease Control
Duke University
HIR has chalked up over 1,840 ISI illustrates vividly how basic that the pursuit of high-impact University of Adelaide University of Ireland Abengoa Research Emory University
research can result in outcomes
University of Melbourne
Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe
Johns Hopkins University
University of Limerick
University of New South Wales
Tier 1 publications, many of which are that have significant impact on research is now deeply rooted in University of Wollongong Italy Michigan University
National Institutes of Health
New England Biolabs
in journals by the Nature Publishing society. A HIR video was also the culture of the university, and Bangladesh University of Bologna Sweden Northstate University
there is no turning back.
Northwestern University
Karolinska Institutet
launched simultaneously and,
Group. Of the total 1,133 Tier 1 together with the HIR book, have Technology Oregon State University
Bangladesh University of Engineering and
International Collaborators
Queens College City University
Khulna University
San Francisco State University
publications from UM researchers, 949 garnered interest and support Free University of Brussel International Collaborators St. Johns University
Rajshahi University
The University of Texas
for HIR. A number of products
Belgium
University of Buffalo
(83.8%) of these were orijects funded generated from projects funded Ghent University University of California
University of Dayton
by HIR will go for corporate
University of Maryland
by HIR. the Ministry of Education for the 151 Brazil University of Miami
University of Michigan
listing in 2015 with the help of the
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of Sao Paulo
Malaysian Innovation Hub, the
University of South Florida
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Message first in the country to be set up by 2014 QS University Ranking Canada Wayne State University
Yale University
University of Alberta Edmonton
purpose of commercialization of
United Kingdom
University of Calgary
University of Ottawa
research products from institutes
University of Ryerson
Aberystwyth University
Chairman of higher education. HIR has chalked up over China Japan Cardiff University
Bath University
Dundee University
promises. In the meantime, HIR 1840 Peking University Hokkaido University King’s London College
The Ministry of Education has
Durham University
Central China Normal University
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Heriot-Watt University
agreed to HIR’s request to extend
Dalian University of Technology
Imperial College
John Innes Institute of Plant Science
Hiroshima University
Institute of Edible Fungi, Shanghai
the delivery of the KPIs until the
Lancaster University
Keio University
Qinghai University for Nationalities
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Kumam University of Tokyo
Leeds University
end of June 2016 so that HIR will
Kyoto UniversityKyushu University
Loughborough University
Sun Yat-sen University
Masanobu Satake, Tohoku University
Xiamen University
have about five years to deliver its
Oxford University
The Institute of Cancer Research
Nagaoka University of Technology
National Institute of Infectious Diseases
RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine
has submitted an official request ISI TIER 1 PUBLICATIONS Finland Multimedia University Queen’s University
University College London
University of Helsinki
University of Birmingham
Tohoku University
University of Cambridge
The setting up of the HIR Central for the second phase of HIR France Tokyo Institute of Technology University of Bristol
University of Edinburgh
funding (HIR II). It is imperative
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Tokyo University of Science
Facility Laboratories for high impact for the government to continue Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Tsukuba University University of Glasgow
University of Harvard
Yamaguchi University
research has proven to be a huge draw its support for HIR for another Centre National De La Recherche University of Kingston
University of Leicester
Scientifique
for overseas and local collaborators. five years so that we can then Strasbourg Cédex Korea University of Liverpool
University of Toulouse
University of London
This year, many Ivy League academic capitalize on the assets acquired “No one undertakes research with the Institute of Science and Technlogy University of Manchester
University of Newcastle
institutions and highly cited world under HIR I - research talent, German Sahmyook University University of Nottingham
Korea University
renowned researchers have international linkages, manpower intention of winning a prize. It is the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology Kuwait University of Oxford
University of Sheffield
and Applied Ecology
collaborated with HIR to undertake development and high end joy of discovering something no one Fritz Haber Institute Max Planck Kuwait University University of Southampton
University of Stirling
University of Surrey
joint research. We are indeed equipment. The fact that UM has Hong Kong University of Ulster
extremely pleased to see publications improved in its position on the QS knows before” – Stephen Hawking Chinese University of Hong Kong New Zealand University of Warwick
Univesity of the West of England
co-authored with academic icons World University Rankings from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The University of Auckland Taiwan
University of Otago
and Nobel Laureates in high impact Iceland University of Waikato National Cheng Kung University Vietnam
National Chiao Tung
journals. University of Iceland Norway National Quemoy University Research Institute for Aquaculture 2
National Synchrotron Radiation Centre
National Taiwan Ocean University
India Nofima Marine National Taiwan University
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige
National Taiwan University of Science &
Level 3, The Chancellery
Global Planning & Strategy Centre
Aditanar College of Engineering Universitet Technology
Chennai University National Tsing Hua University
University of Malaya
Indian Statistical Institute National University of Kaohsiung
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Strategic Plan
ING As we come to the final stretch details Quality is
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of HIR, we are hopeful and
the KPIs set, and live up to our
promise to MoE. It will be a year
of hard work ahead, but we
believe our PIs will deliver on
their promises. Moving forward,
we have started to make plans
for the second phase of HIR by
submitting our budget request for
Central
the next five years (2016-2020).
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We would like to use HIR II to
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consolidate the hard work that
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UM researchers have put in, and
and the collaborators developed
Faculty
over the last few years. In
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addition, we have set up excellent
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central facilities which should be
Research Management Centre(RMC)
Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya
Level 6, Postgraduate & Research Building,
long after
put to good use under HIR II.
Faculty of Dentistry
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Although 2015 is going to
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be most challenging, we
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nevertheless feel that we can look
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forward to reap a rich harvest
Deputy Dean (Research) Office
from what we have sown in the
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Level 6, Engineering Tower, Faculty of
the price is
last three years.
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