Assessing research performance based on publication output: Case of science technology and social science faculty

The major concern by universities now days are research contribution of academician. This paper describes the study of research performance based on publication output of Science Technology and Social Science researchers for Research University in Malaysia. Publication output include both those in impact factor publication, namely ISI publication and publications not covered by impact factor publication, namely non-ISI publication which include (cited publications, non-cited publications, proceedings, other articles and books) will be compared. Performances of each researcher (n=1014) from 7 faculties of Science Technology and 6 faculties of Social Science in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia will be studied. Followed by their subsequent impact factor publications track as detailed on The Web of Science databases for impact factor journal and monitor the number of non-ISI publication track as detailed on Scopus and Google Scholar database. Moreover, followed by extraction and clustering of the researchers details and publications output. The results show there is a significant relationship, between research performances based publication output and categories of researchers.