About MySCI
MySCI — the Malaysian Scholar Citation Index — is a publisher-connected scholarly index for Malaysian journals. It harvests article metadata directly from publishers' own systems, keeps the evidence for every record, and states plainly what it does and does not know.
What "indexed" means here
A journal is indexed by MySCI when its article metadata has actually been harvested into this database — not because its title appears in a directory, and not because another organisation recognises it.
Concretely, being indexed means the journal's publishing endpoint was verified, its records were retrieved over OAI-PMH, the original response was retained, each article has a permanent record here, and the whole process can be repeated without creating duplicates.
Three statuses that are not the same thing
| Status | Who decides it | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| MySCI indexing | MySCI | Whether this platform holds the journal's article metadata. |
| MyCite recognition | MyCite | Whether MyCite lists the journal. MySCI records the claim; it does not make or endorse it. |
| External coverage | Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ | Whether those services cover the journal. Again, recorded, not judged. |
These are stored in separate tables and shown as separate badges. The journal record itself carries no recognition field at all, which is enforced by an automated test rather than left to discipline.
Where the numbers stand today
MySCI is at an early stage. It knows of many more journals than it has indexed, and it says so here rather than presenting the registry size as coverage.
What MySCI does not do
- It does not rank journals. There is no MySCI score and no tier. Publishing one before its methodology has been defined and tested would be a ranking with nothing behind it.
- It does not merge authors by name. Malaysian naming conventions defeat the usual heuristics, and a wrong merge misrepresents a real person's record. Author pages group name forms and say so.
- It does not overwrite publisher metadata. When enrichment from other sources arrives, it will sit alongside what the publisher published, never on top of it.
- It does not redistribute licensed indicators. CiteScore, SJR, and Journal Citation Reports figures belong to their publishers.
Corrections
Every record shows where it came from and when. If something here is wrong, the fastest fix is usually at the publisher's end, because MySCI reflects what the journal's own system serves. Records that were corrected upstream are picked up on the next harvest, and the previous version is kept.