Nader Ale Ebrahim is currently working as a research fellow with the Research
Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, Institute of Research Management and
Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya. Nader holds a PhD degree in Technology
Management from Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya. He has over 19 years of
experience in the field of technology management and new product development in different
companies. His current research interest focuses on E-skills, Research Tools,
Bibliometrics and managing virtual NPD teams in SMEs’ R&D centers. Nader developed a
new method using the “Research Tools” which help students who seek to reduce the search
time by expanding the knowledge of researchers to effectively use the "tools"
that are available on the Internet. Research Tools consist of a hierarchical set of
nodes. It has four main nodes: (1) Searching the literature, (2) Writing a paper, (3)
Targeting suitable journals, and (4) Enhancing visibility and impact. He was the winner
of Refer-a-Colleague Competition and has received prizes from renowned establishments
such as Thomson Reuters. Nader is well-known as the founder of “Research Tools” Box and
the developer of “Publication Marketing Tools”.
Articles
Effective Factors for Increasing University Publication and Citation Rate (with Masoomeh Shahbazi-Moghadam, Hadi Salehi, Marjan Mohammadjafari, and Hossein Gholizadeh), Asian Social Science (2015)
Despite the vital role of paper publication and citation in higher education institutions (HEIs), literature...
The Scientific Articles on Art Criticism (with Pegah Jahangiri, Aida Torkamani, Mahsa Mashayekhi, and Sabzali M. K.), Asian Social Science (2015)
Research has been extremely involved in improving in the art criticism area. These improvements are...
Does a Long Reference List Guarantee More Citations? Analysis of Malaysian Highly Cited and Review Papers (with H. Ebrahimian, Maryam Mousavi, and Farzad Tahriri), The International Journal of Management Science and Business (2015)
Earlier publications have shown that the number of references as well as the number of...
Optimize Your Article for Search Engine, University of Malaya Research Bulletin (2014)
This article provides guidelines on how to optimize scholarly literature for academic search engines like...
Economic Growth and Internet Usage Impact on Publication Productivity among ASEAN’s and World’s Best Universities
(with Hossein Gholizadeh; Hadi Salehi; Mohamed Amin Embi; Mahmoud
Danaee; Ali Ordi; Farid Habibi Tanha,; and Noor Azuan Abu Osman), Modern Applied Science (2014)
Measuring the number of papers which are published each year, publication productivity is the factor...
Conference Papers
Process Construct in the Virtual R&D Teams (with Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid, Zahari Taha, and Marjan Mohammadjafari Dr), Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering & Management Systems Conference (2012)
literature proves the importance of the process role in the effectiveness of virtual research and...
Managing Communication in New Product Development Process: Virtual R&D Teams and Information Technology (with Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid, and Zahari Taha) (2011)
Literature proves the importance of the role of information technology in increasing the effectiveness of...
Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs (with Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid, and Zahari Taha) (2011)
This paper presents the results of empirical research conducted during March to September 2009. The...
The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs (with Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid, and Zahari Taha) (2010)
The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development...
Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration (with Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid, and Zahari Taha) (2010)
In this paper, we present our more than two years research experiences on virtual R&D...
Presentations
Strategies to Enhance Research Visibility, Impact & Citations (2015)
Do you know “Over 43% of ISI papers have never ever received any citations?” (nature.com/top100,...
"Research Tools": Tools for supporting research and publications, Scientific Writing Workshop (2014)
“Research Tools” can be defined as vehicles that broadly facilitate research and related activities. “Research...
Modified Stage-Gate: A Product Development Process, IPS & Urban Studies Office, Center for Technology Studies, Sharif University of Technology (2014)
In today’s dynamic marketplace, manufacturing companies are under strong pressure to introduce new products for...
Effective Use of Research & Publication Tools and Resources – Part 2, Malaysian Postgraduate Workshop Series (MPWS), Training Centre (2014)
With the increasing use of information and communications technology (ICT), researchers are able to use...
Effective Use of Research & Publication Tools and Resources – Part 1, Malaysian Postgraduate Workshop Series (MPWS), Training Centre (2014)
With the increasing use of information and communications technology (ICT), researchers are able to use...
Popular Press
How to Promote Your Article (43 ways to improve papers citations), University of Malaya Research Bulletin (2014)
Writing an article for online distribution in a way that maximized the chances of citation...
Maximize Visibility: A Way to Increase Citation Frequency (with Hadi Salehi), UM HIR SPECIAL FEATURE (2013)
The number of citations has over 30% share in Times Higher Education (THE) world university...
Books
Virtual Teams and its application in New Product Development, R&D and SMEs (2013)
A comprehensive definition of virtual teams may be taken as: small temporary groups of geographically,...
Unpublished Papers
Modified Kardashian index (MK-index): A measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists (2015)
This study propose a “Modified Kardashian index” (MK-index), a measure of discrepancy between a scientist’s...
Nader Ale Ebrahim | University of Malaya | Technology Management, Virtual R&D teams | Visiting Research Fellow, Research Support Unit, Centre of Research Services (PPP), Research Management & Innovation Complex (IPPP), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia