Winning the Top Cited Author Award

From left: Sim and Tan posing with their certificate

Faculty of Business and Finance (FBF) senior lecturers Sim Jia Jia and Garry Tan Wei Han were recently awarded the “Top Cited Author (2014-2018)” Award by Elsevier USA for Telematics and Informatics Journal. The award was given based on the high number of citations; the research paper received about 80 citations from 2014 to 2018.

The award-winning research was titled “Understanding and Predicting the Motivators of Mobile Music Acceptance – A Multi-stage MRA-Artificial Neural Network Approach”. It was also co-authored with FBF senior lecturer Garry Tan Wei Han, Linton University College Academic Wong Chew Jia, UCSI University Academic Ooi Keng Boon and University Malaya Academic Hew Teck-Soon.

“Millions of people love listening to music, and there is an emergence of new digital mobile music services, for example Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music. In view of this changing trend we wanted to analyse how consumers interact and access digital music. Specifically we would like to understand on the consumer behaviour. The outcome of the research will benefit the music industry and perhaps enable practitioners to provide better music services to consumers,” said Sim.

She also added, “Currently, our research areas are mainly focused on the adoption, diffusion and continuous use of mobile-related services, such as mobile-commerce, mobile shopping and mobile payment, from the consumers’ viewpoint. Therefore, this award comes as a compliment for all the hard work rendered by our research team. As an academician, it is not only my responsibility to conduct researches, but also a joy to be able to contribute to the area of my study. I am glad that other researchers value this research.”

Co-researcher Tan was also recently acknowledged as one of the "Top 3 Authors in the World" in the field of Mobile Commerce in an article published by Salazar, 2017, and foresees that there will be more researches done in this field in the near future.

Telematics and Informatics Journal is currently indexed with Thomson Reuters (ISI); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI); JCR-2017, IF = 3.789