It is not a must but it is very important...
As a Doctoral student in UKM (at least for my batch), you are only required to submit 2 papers to journals and 2 papers to conferences. And the papers do not need to be published yet during the oral-exam or what we call the viva. The journals do not have to be neither international nor indexed. easy peasy ey?
But as an academician...it is very important to have published papers in indexed or good impact factors journals. This carry a big weightage for your annual key performance index...and of course for promotion...and today after almost 1 year, 1 of my paper has been accepted to be published in an indexed journal...for the first time...yeay me...it is my third paper in journals but the 1st in indexed one..alhamdulillah!!! insyaallah more to come....amiiiin.
But as an academician...it is very important to have published papers in indexed or good impact factors journals. This carry a big weightage for your annual key performance index...and of course for promotion...and today after almost 1 year, 1 of my paper has been accepted to be published in an indexed journal...for the first time...yeay me...it is my third paper in journals but the 1st in indexed one..alhamdulillah!!! insyaallah more to come....amiiiin.
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