Minutes of the ASEAN Citation Index (ACI) Editor’s Workshop in Vietnam 22 June 2016

At the National Economics University Hall, Hai Ba Trung Dist, Ha Noi, Vietnam

According to the minute of the 3rd Steering Committee Meeting in Bangkok, the ACI Secretariat proposed and committed to run a workshop for editors in each member countries to create awareness of the importance of the ACI and also share the ACI journal selection criteria for better understanding among the ASEAN editors. The fourth ASEAN Citation Index (ACI) Editor’s Workshop was scheduled to be held in Vietnam on Wednesday, 22th of June 2016 at the National Economics University Hall No 207 Giai Phong, Hai Ba Trung Dist, Ha Noi, Vietnam. The half-day workshop was jointly funded by Ministry of Education, Thai-Journal Citation Index, and Office of Higher Education Commission of Thailand. There were 80 editors and universities’ representatives in Vietnam participated in the event. Regarding the speakers and facilitators from the TCI, there were 4 persons, namely, Prof Dr Narongrit Sombatsompop, Assoc Prof Teerasak Markpin, Mr Santi Ittiritmechai and Dr Sithipong Mahathanabodee. The programme of the workshop was shown below.

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3Summary of the Workshop 1. Prof. Dr. Le Quoc Hoi and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dinh Phi Ho, the ACI Steering Committee of Vietnam

were the host of the event. 2. ASEAN Citation Index (ACI): What, Why, How?

Prof Dr Narongrit Sombatsompop, the Chairman of the ACI Steering Committee delivered Background and Rationale of the ACI, the development, the current status of the ACI, the administrative structure and the Steering Committee under the topic “ASEAN Citation Index (ACI): What, Why, How?”. The ACI Steering Committee comprises representatives nominated by the Ministry of Education or the related organisations from 10 member countries. The ACI has 159 journals titles. Of the 159, 94 were from Thailand, 25 from Malaysia, 18 from Indonesia, 20 from the Philippines, and 2 from Vietnam.

3. Workshop on Journal Evaluation for possible inclusion in the ACI and Scopus There were 20 sampling journals for evaluation in the workshop. As the time was limited, only the TCI team performed the evaluation. The results suggested that, there were only 2 journals had high potential to be indexed in the ACI database.

Atmosphere of the ASEAN Citation Index (ACI) Editor’s Workshop in the Vietnam

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