Outstanding reviewer for Internet Research

Dr Tan (left) receiving the award from Elvin Cheah, representative of Emerald Publishing

Faculty of Business and Finance (FBF) academic Dr Garry Tan Wei Han, was recently awarded as “2019 Outstanding Reviewer” for Internet Research Journal in the Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence 2019, by Emerald Publishing.

The award was based on the nomination from the Editor of Internet Research, Prof Christy M.K. Cheung from Hong Kong Baptist University. “My gratitude goes to Prof Cheung, a prominent academic in Information Systems, for the nomination. I am also very grateful to my supervisor Prof Ooi Keng Boon for his guidance, dedication, enthusiasm and optimism has led me to become a better reviewer,” enthused Dr Tan.

“Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom, also celebrates and rewards outstanding contributions of reviewers of scholarly research through its prestigious Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence. Specifically, the Outstanding Reviewer Award provides reviewer the recognition and international credit they deserve for ensuring that every paper published makes a genuine impact to the academic field. Therefore, I am very honoured and humbled to receive the award. In view of its prestige, I am delighted to play a role in the growth of the journal,” said Dr Tan.

Internet Research is a ranked A journal by the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List and has an Impact Factor of 4.109 according to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2018. Dr Tan has reviewed over 260 articles indexed in Clarivate Analytics (SSCI;SCI; SCIE; ESCI) and Scopus as to date. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Industrial Management and Data Systems (Emerald; Clarivate Analytics SCIE) in the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, recipient of the 2017 and 2018 Publons Global Peer Review Award and the 2019 National Outstanding Reviewer by Private Education Co-operative Malaysia (with support from Emerald Publishing, United Kingdom and The Ministry of Education, Malaysia).

In view of his contribution in reviewing, Dr Tan was also invited by Emerald Publishing and Xiamen University (Malaysia Campus) as one of their speakers to share on 'How to Critically Evaluate a Manuscript' in 2017 and 2019 respectively. Additionally, he also sits as an editorial review board members for Industrial Management and Data Systems (Emerald, Clarivate Analytics; SCIE), International Journal of Bank Marketing (Emerald; Clarivate Analytics; SSCI), Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (Emerald; Clarivate Analytics; ESCI), Internet Research (Emerald; Clarivate Analytics; SCIE; SSCI) and Tourism Review (Emerald, SSCI), which is one of the oldest and most established Tourism journals in the world with more than 70 years of history in publishing.

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