Editor-in-Chief of TiS attended the Seminar on System Development and Quality Improvement of Thai Journals in indexed in Scopus, Phase 2 on 24th February 2023 at, Mandarin Hotel Bangkok

On February 24th, 2023, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phongpichit Channuie (Editor-in-Chief of Trends in Sciences) and Mr. Kosin Sirirak (Managing Editor) attended the Seminar on System Development and Quality Improvement of Thai Journals Indexed in Scopus, Phase 2, at Mandarin Hotel Bangkok, Thailand. This symposium was arranged by Thai Journal Citation Index Centre (TCI) with Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI), Science Technology and Innovation Policy Institute (STIPI), and National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC). There were 84 participants from 48 journals at this symposium. In this symposium, the introductory remarks were shared by Prof. Dr. Narongrit Sombatsompop. The purpose of this symposium is to: 1) increase the number of Thai researchers’ articles in Scopus database as well as improve the quality of researchers in the forms of editorship, authorship, and reviewership; 2) raise the quartile of Thai journals in Scopus database to Q1 and Q2; and 3) develop and improve the system related to improving the quality of Thai journals in Scopus database. At the end of the symposium, there was a Q&A between TCI team and journal editors about the development and problems found in journals, ThaiJO and ThaiES systems, and DOI codes to know how to develop and improve them for better quality.