International Co-Authorship in Publications During and Succeeding PhD Study: A case study between Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka and Technical University of Denmark

A significant number of local academicians were awarded opportunity to study abroad for their PhD. However, this figure is contradicted with the number of scientific articles published by one academician with his/her PhD supervisor. With the strict criteria being set by the Times Higher Education 2014 Ranking with regard to citations and internationalism, it is of great interest to strategize on the the co-authorship work between local academicians and their foreign PhD supervisors. To illustrate this, a case study is presented in this paper involving an academia from Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) and his former PhD supervisor from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). A series of published journal and proceeding articles are listed, of which collaboratively written by both parties. The articles comprise the ones being published during and after PhD completion, with some awards achieved at the respective conferences. This case study is aimed to inspire other academicians in adapting the same strategy.