With the increasing awareness and hard work demonstrated by UTAR academics, the university is confident of further growth in terms of the number of publications accepted in Scopus in the years to come.
The cumulative total publications (Article, Review, Conference Paper, Book Chapter, Data paper and Book) accepted in Scopus increased from 5,273 in 2020 to 6,127 in 2021. Figure 4-1 below indicates the progress shown by UTAR researchers at UTAR from year 2002 until 2021.
Figure 4-1: UTAR Total Number of Publications for Article, Review, Conference Paper, Book Chapter, Data paper and Book Indexed in Scopus (as of 18 July 2022)
The publications produced by UTAR academic staff in the year 2021 can be referred to in
The citations for articles (indexed in Scopus) were 18,287 in 2021 compared to 13,887 in 2020. The cumulative citations were 59,684 in 2020 and rose to 77,971 in 2021 as shown in Figure 4-2 below.
Figure 4-2: UTAR Total Citations for Article, Review, Conference Paper, Book Chapter, Data paper and Book Indexed in Scopus (as of 18 July 2022)
The breakdown of year 2021 publication listed in SCOPUS is as follows:
| TYPE | NO |
| Journal Article | 559 |
| Conference Proceeding | 235 |
| Book Chapter | 13 |
| Review | 46 |
| Data Paper | 1 |
| TOTAL | 854 |