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This report is a collaborative publication between the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education Malaysia, Elsevier, and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). It combines multiple data sources and analyses to provide a multifaceted view of Malaysia’s research and university ranking performance between 2014 and 2018 contrasted with selected comparator countries and regions.

Malaysia is an attractive research destination and highly productive in terms of number of highly cited publications per unit of funding spend on Gross Expenditure on Research & Development (GERD). Malaysia’s story deserves attention and recognition. Its intent to become a developed knowledge-based economy has been supported by strong national investment in research. In recent years (2014-2018), Malaysia has made substantial investments in GERD (USD 8B in 2014 to USD 12B in 2018), representing an increase of 50% in absolute terms and +0.3 percentage points in GERD as share of GDP. In parallel, Malaysia has grown its research base by about 20,000 researcher Full Time Equivalents (FTE), amounting to over 85,000 researcher FTEs in 2018. These increased resources for Research & Development (R&D), both in terms of financial investment and human capital, have been accompanied by Malaysia’s growing presence in the QS World University Rankings (WUR).

Publication Date

2019

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Scholarly Publishing | Science and Technology Studies

Malaysia: Knowledge Destination for Research Excellence

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