Typically, an academic writing style for journals is complicated because those journals use complex vocabularies and sentences. It might be hard for students to read journal articles in detail and in short periods of time. Therefore, this research proposes a Journal Article Selection Model (JASM) based on article abstract using combination of scanning and skimming techniques. JASM aims for two objectives. Firstly, JASM aims to find out knowledge within journal articles in the form of multi-layer topic model, which is the hierarchy of topics and ...