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Purpose -To analyse the publications of, and the citations to, the current staff of 19 departments of computer science in Malaysian universities, and to compare this bibliometric data with expert peer reviews of Malaysian research performance. Method -Author and citation searches of the Scopus and Web of Science databases.Findings -Both publication and citation rates are low, although this is at least in part due to some Malaysian universities having only a teaching function. More of the departments' publications were identified in Scopus than in Web of Science, but both databases were needed for comprehensive coverage. Statistically significant relationships were observed between the departments' publication and citation counts and the rankings of the departments' parent universities in two evaluations of the research performance of Malaysian universities Originality -This is the first comparison of bibliometric and peer-review data for Malaysia, and, more generally, for a country with a newly developed higher education system. Keywords - IntroductionGovernments worldwide are looking for ways in which they can evaluate the quality of the research that is carried out in their countries' universities. Informal evaluations have been carried out for many years, but the increasing costs of higher education provision have resulted in the development of more formal evaluation mechanisms. These mechanisms are designed to ensure that government funding will be channelled to those institutions and research groups that have demonstrated their ability to carry out high-quality research in a cost-effective manner. assessments that focus on specific disciplines or groups of disciplines.Research quality has traditionally been assessed by means of expert review (in a manner analogous to the procedures used for refereeing journal articles and grant applications), not least because this approach is well established and generally enjoys the support of the academic community. It is, however, very costly in terms of the time of the subject experts, and this has spurred interest in the use of bibliometric indicators as a surrogate for peer review. These indicators can consider both the quantity of research (as reflected in the numbers of research publications produced by a university, department or whatever) and the quality of research (as reflected in the numbers of citations to those publications) and are typically far cheaper to use since they exploit existing bibliometric databases and do not require costly human judgments. Moreover, there is an increasing body of evidence to support the view that bibliometric approaches can yield results closely mirroring the judgments of subject experts. Specifically, significant correlations have been observed between expert judgments and bibliometric data in comparisons carried out in Italy (Abramo et al

Aim: This study is to understand and analyze the publication productivity as one of the important scientometric indicators of HEI's performance in Malaysia for duration time of 20 years. Method: This study conducted the scientometric analysis of the research productivity performance of Malaysia's researchers from June 1995 to June 2015 using Scopus database. All type' field in the search box where chosen and the chosen keyword is 'Malaysia'. All related papers are extracted, retrieved and compiled into the personal database in Microsoft Excel. Pre-processing task such as data cleaning were done and with total of 290 093 publications records was identified. These publications records included all type of documents such as articles, conference, review paper, book chapter and books. Result: The remarkably numbers of publication growth from 1995 to 2015. There are huge development of research happens in these 20 years in Malaysia with only 1,610 publication in 1995 increased to 180,797 publication in 2015. Subject area of pure science dominated the percentage of publication such as engineering with 15% from total and the small percentage with total of 5% comes from pure science as well which are physic and astronomy. Conclusion: The increase in publication productivity is a sign of good R&D that is actively happened in this country. This has a positive impact towards Malaysia as well as the related institutions in order to introduce and stamp their name to the world. Therefore, the numbers of collaboration with others countries especially with European countries and America is worth to emphasize. Nonetheless, we understand that there are numbers of factors that associated in producing the publication that can be barriers to the authors such as personal factors, environment factors and behavioral factors.

Able to read and recite verses in Al-Quran, which is written in Arabic language, is important to Muslims because verses of Al-Quran must be recited while performing the solat routine daily. Therefore, it is important to Muslims to learn Arabic language from the earliest age possible, the toddler's age. However, teaching Arabic language to children, especially toddlers, is difficult due to several reasons; one of it is their shorttime attention ability to focus. Al-Furqan is one of the methods to learn Arabic language. In Al-Furqan method, the sequence of the Arabic sounds used is based on the baby's first sounds, such as ba and ma. This paper is proposing a conceptual model in building an interactive Arabic language learning courseware for toddlers using Al-Furqan method. The conceptual model is build based on four different theories, which are the persuasive system design, the toddler learning theory, the multimedia principles, and e-flashcards. For the persuasive system design, persuasion context and software characteristics are included, while for the toddler learning theory, visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles are embedded. For the multimedia principles, principle of multimedia, spatial contiguity, temporal, coherence, segmenting and voice are considered. For the e-flashcard, the multimedia elements concept of content is displayed on clear screen as it is apply digitally. This model will be assessed by evaluating the behavior change of toddlers during use of the courseware.