Mapping research theme for Malaysia’s publication

The development in research become vital and important in order to acknowledge what's currently happening the research world. Another approach to know the development in research is by implementation of subject area analysis where it is one of way to analyze academic research development and improvement as well as to acknowledge the paradigm shift from one research area to another. The objective of this study is to produce the subject area analysis of Malaysian publication. Nevertheless, our intention isn't to create the new subject area heading list from the scratch but instead, use the current subject heading list which created from the subject matter expert and recognized by third party experts were used as a based in this experiment. Keywords involve in this study namely as author's keywords and index keywords. Method used in this study was co-word analysis which the result from the experiment is in a form of clusters which represent the subject area. In our research, we used one promising expert application namely as Vosviewer to achieve our research objective. Data from Scopus database from 1995 to 2015 with total of 46 959 documents can be used after data cleaning. We managed to get 3 clusters to represent some theme in our analysis and output. Comparison between two experiment clusters which both of them has different bibliometric element also reviewed later in this paper. These might beneficial to management and other researchers to maneuver the research direction and gives an idea which subject area need a focus and which subject area need new discovery.