Prof. Dr. Ocky Karna Radjasa, M.Sc., Ph.D, the Director of Research and Community Service in the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education is delivering a material on international publication trend

Semarang | In order to improve the quality of the lecturers’ researches and community services,Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang (Unimus) held a discussion with Prof. Dr. Ocky Karna Radjasa, M.Sc., Ph.D., the Director of Research, and Community Service in the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education. Held by Unimus Institute of Research and Community Service in the Nursing Research Center building on Friday, March 9, 2018, the discussion was attended by lecturers at Unimus. The event was themed “Improving the Quality of Research and Community Service by Lecturers Based on the Directorate General of Research and Community Service’s 2018 Policies”.

In his speech, Prof. Oki told about the significance of lecturers’ role in improve the university’ quality by conducting researches, publishing journal articles, and doing community services. It was expected that by attending the discussion, the lecturers would be motivated to create quality scientific works. Graduating his study in Aquatic Biosciences from Tokyo Daigaku in 2001, he said that he would force lecturers holding Doctoral degrees in Indonesia to conduct researches so that they could produce internationally-accredited scientific articles. Prof. Ocky explained that in between 2006 and 2017, there has been an upward trend of international publications. “Indonesia has outdone Thailand, and is now in the top 3 following Malaysia and Singapore,“ he asserted.

Atmosphere during the discussion session

He stated that there were 8 research mapping parameters of Higher Education, i.e. Research Master Plan, Scopus, Journal, Guidelines for Accreditation of Scientific Periodicals, Text Book, Appropriate Technology, Intellectual Property, and Prototype Models. In his opinion, writing in national journals also needed to be increased, including the improvement of H-index score achievement, and high citations in Science and Technology Index (SINTA) that has been designed by the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education.

Berikut Komponen Penilaian Sinta Score (untuk personal / dosen / peneliti ) :

Assessment Component Code Assessment Quality (Not Percentage)
Number of Articles in Scopus A 40
Number of Non-article Documents in Scopus B 15
Number of Citations in Google Scholar C 1
Number of Citations in Scopus D 4
H-index Quality (Google Scholar) E 4
H-index Quality (Scopus) F 16

Sinta Score Formula : ((Ax40) + (Bx15) + (Cx1) + (Dx4) + (Ex4) + (Fx16)) / Divider

Divider is some number, result of statistic calculation taking into account maximal Individual / Lecturer / Researcher’s highest Sinta Score.

On that occasion, Dr. Sri Darmawati, M.Si., the Vice Rector I, stated that in her greeting that the discussion should be able to make Unimus’ lecturers to get motivated to create quality scientific works.

 

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