Higher Education Policy Strategy in Acceleration of Research Results

Publication

Hamdan Sugilar, Tedi Priatna and Wahyudin Darmalaksana

UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, JL. AH. Nasution 105, Bandung, Indonesia

hamdansugilar@uinsgd.ac.id

Keywords: Higher Education Policy, Publication of Research Result, Reputable International Journal.

Abstract: The activity of scientific publication not only becomes very important for an institution, but also become the

productivity measurement of scientific publication of a higher education. Every college creatively seeks to

generate innovations that encourage research and publicity, but the results are still not as expected. So if it’s

not handled, Indonesian universities are dreaded to remain at the same level as they are today. The purpose

of this study is to determine the policies and strategic steps undertaken by higher education institution in

acceleration of publication of research results. The research method utilized qualitative approach. Sources of

data consist of: in-depth interviews, documents, and achievements of scientific publications. This study

employs inductive thinking. This research was conducted on two institutions of journal and publication at

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia and UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. Based on the research, results

obtained as follows: the higher education institutuins make strategic plans in achieving publication of research

results; they form journal and publication teams that play an important role in the output of research results

to the publication of reputable international journals; they set up a Training of Trainer (TOT) team as a

facilitator or coaching clinic of writing scientific report.

1 INTRODUCTION

The strategic targets of the Directorate of Islamic

Higher Education of the Ministry of Religious Affairs

of the Republic of Indonesia 2015-2019 are "Quality,

Relevance and Competitiveness." This strategic

objective is poured into the program targets

(outcomes), including the creation of professional

resources in the implementation of Tridharma

Perguruan Tinggi (PT). Program target is poured into

the target of activities (output), one of which is

increasing research quality. The quality of research is

characterized by two things: Improving the quality of

research results; and Improving quality of innovation

(LP2M, 2017). Some research qualities are: a)

Number of research and innovation results; b)

Number of accredited national journal articles and

reputable international journals; and c) Number of

IPR / Patent.

Scientific publications in reputable international

journals are still dominated by science and

engineering. It should be encouraged by researchers

in non-science for scientific publications. The effort

to put "Scientific Work" in Higher Education is still

minimal. Scientific work for example: discussing in

the laboratory, sharing writing. The publication of

scientific papers is a great moment that is closely

related to the pride of a country, and as a liaison

between researchers and user communities (Sunarno,

2009) The number of scientific papers owned by a

country impacts on the more respected nation in terms

of scholarship (Asep Bayu Dani Nandiyanto,

Tuswadi, Huria Haristiani, 2016; Sunarno, 2009).

Efforts to encourage the acceleration of the

number of scientific publications should always be in

line and have one vision, not only in the form of

regulations that regulate technical research but in the

internal campus they must have the mature regulation

or strategic plan to achieve the increased target

number of publications. Lecturers are given facilities

and simplicity in publishing research results and the

rectorate support to the importance of lecturers’

publication (General Director of Islamic Education,

2015).

Each university seeks to "run" to catch the number

of reputable publications not only to compete with

universities in Indonesia but also to compete with

international universities to increase publication

positions in reputable journals. One of the factors of

the low number of publications in reputable

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international journals is that the writing culture has

not been well developed in the society in general and

in higher education in particular (Yohandri, 2015).

The higher education immediately sets up a binding

regulation for all academicians to accelerate a

scientific publication in reputable journals and

analysis of policy reviews appropriate with those

needs (LP2M, 2017).

Currently the need to publish the results of

research has been very urgent and become a

mandatory thing, along with the release of the circular

of the Director General of Higher Education. 152 of

2012, where every Bachelor (S1), Master (S2) and

Doctorate (S3) must publish the final assignment in

national, accredited and international journals as one

of the requirements to graduate. In addition, the

increasing in the rank levels of some functional

positions has required to be able to publish research

and thought results in scientific journals (Lukman,

2016). The policy must be responded positively by all

civitas academica through the establishment of a

study center or special institution that handles the

output of research results. There is only one choice of

increasing or stagnant publication number even

position of publication amount of international

reputation is at the bottom if higher education does

not respond to the policy. The focus of this study is to

examine what strategies and policies conducted by

universities in accelerating the publication of research

results, especially in reputable international journals.

2 METHODOLOGY

This research uses qualitative approach or method.

Sources of data consist of: in-depth interviews,

questionnaires, documents, and achievements of

publications of scientific papers. This study applies

inductive thinking. The subjects of this research are

the journal and publication teams of Universitas

Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) and UIN Sunan Gunung

Djati Bandung.

3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

3.1 National Standards of Research

The Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher

Education (Kemristek Dikti) established 8 National

Standards of research as follows: result standard,

content, process, assessment, researcher,

infrastructure, management, financing and funding

(Ristek Dikti, 2016). Furthermore, national standards

of research are elaborated into operational standards

of research. Each submitted research must meet the

research standards: standards of direction, process,

outcome, competence, funding, infrastructure and

outcome (LP2M, 2015b).

Content standard is the depth and breadth of

research material which consists of basic research and

applied research. Basic research material: oriented to

explanations or inventions to anticipate a new

phenomenon, phenomenon, rule, model or postulate.

Applied research materials: oriented to innovation

discovery and development of science and

technology that benefit society, business, and / or

industry. Each college sets the standard of research.

At the standards of university researchers through

research institutions selecting proposals through the

stages as follows: prospective researchers make

proposals based on selected cluster criteria with the

conditions that have been determined; submit the

proposal file to the research institute; review the

proposal by a competent reviewer in the field of

expertise; proposal seminar tested by reviewer;

announcement of graduated proposal; the researcher

handles both research contracts and outputs

consisting of research documents and financial

reports, published outcome releases in journals in

accordance with pre-determined research clusters

(LP2M, 2017).

3.2 Policy Direction

UPI's strategic plan includes creating a university

research policy development program that is realized

with the establishment of the University's Research

Master Plan (Rencana Induk Penelitian - RIP) 2016-

2020. Up to the beginning of 2015 the achievement

of three other targets of the university's policy

research program development program, namely the

acquisition of 50 international publications, and 3

HKI, and. 471 research grants, consisting of 12 DIPA

Dikti funds, 122 BOPTN funds, 130 UPI competitive

funds, 75 DIPA UPI funds, and 132 other funds

providing research facilities support, international

publications and HKI acquisitions have been realized

with the establishment of Sentra HKI in LPPM UPI

(UPI, 2015).

The strategic plan of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati

Bandung development program is directed to be a

superior and competitive higher education based on

"Revelation Guiding Science". Development policy

of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati in the form of structuring

and development efforts that will be pursued through

policy programs, such as encouraging and facilitating

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creativity, and innovation of lecturers to produce

works that are beneficial to the society, improving the

quality of research lecturers and students, reviving the

issuance of accredited journals and institutions , and

encourage the publication of accredited national and

international journals (LP2M, 2015a).

In the period 2010 to 2015 research activities have

produced 1,784 research titles. From 2009 to early

2017, it obtained 110 reputable international

publications which are indexed by scopus and 133

HKI. The data put UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

as the rank II PTKIN most publication indexed by

scopus and rank 7 publications with scopus indexed

college in Bandung. LP2M Research and Publishing

Center UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung have a

very strategic role as a leading sector in the

implementation of research activities. LP2M itself

has the duty to implement, coordinate, monitor and

assess research activities and community service

based on Rector's policy (Research Master Plan UIN

Sunan Gunung Djati, 2015).

3.3 Policy Strategy of Research Result

Publication

In any policy, there must be attached to three things,

first, substance or problem to be overcome. Second,

the process needs to be done to overcome them,

finally, the context in which efforts to overcome the

problem takes place (Purwo Santoso, 2010). As

shown in chart1 below

Figure 1: Policy Triangulation.

In Figure 1 there is a relationship between substance,

process and context. The substance is how PT's

efforts encourage all academicians to jointly improve

research output through international journal

publications, foster writing culture, and create

support, participation and policy including journal

accreditation policy and international conference

implementation. The process that needs to be done is

the accumulation of support from universities for

publication activities, the growing spirit of writing

and publication of the lecturers, changing the view

that writing can expand the dissemination, moral

responsibility as researchers do not just pursue

promotion only. In general there are three parts of the

structure of international journals: common parts,

torso and complementary parts (Inggrid, 2010).

The context or process that must or is being

performed is presented in chart 2 below.

Figure 2: Flow of Activity and Policy of Publication of Research Result.

In Figure 2 it is explained that higher education

provides full support to research and publishing

institutions or through the establishment of a team of

journal developers and publications to make a

breakthrough through innovative programs. The

publication acceleration effort is presented in table 1

below.

Substan

Proce

Conte

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Table 1: Program of Acceleration Activity of Research

Result.

Activity

Benefit

Outcome

Training of

Trainer

The existence of

uniform

understanding

of scientific

articles writing

national and

international

scale

Trainers team

mentoring

scientific articles

Workshop

Academic

Writing and

Coaching

Clinic Articles

Skilled in

creating article

or script of

journal

Article / script

that is accepted in

a journal of

national or

international

reputation

Academic

Writing

Growing a

writing culture

for lecturers,

skilled in

creating articles

or script

journals, making

presentation

slides for

conferences

Article / script

that is accepted in

reputable journal

National or

International,

HKI

International

Conference

The collection

of journal papers

or proceedings

of international

repute

The collection of

papers that are

accepted in

international

reputable journals

Table 1 describes several program activities starting

with the formation of TOT teams at the University

level, Coaching Clinic Workshop activities preparing

papers to submit to conferences or international

journals and conducting academic writing classes

conducted on Tuesday.

The acceleration program of scientific publication

conducted by research and publishing center

(PuslitPen) UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung such

as Co-Authoring Paper with Professor (CAPP)

program which is a collaboration of writing paper

with Professor as co-author or correspondence writer;

Accelerated publication of effective scientific works

can be pursued through participation in conferences,

whether organized by the university itself or

organized by off-campus professional associations;

The University may provide funding assistance in

conferences with reputable international pending

proceedings; LP2M UIN Sunan Gunung Djati

Bandung qualified the proposals for funding for

scientific publications. One of the stages in

publishing the research results is choosing the

journal, preparing the manuscript, sending the

manuscript, communicating with the editor and

revising it based on the reviewer's note (Yohandri,

2015).

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) has

publication in Scopus since 2002. Total publication

until June 3, 2016 is 221 documents. The average

growth of the last 5 years is 33.67%. About 67.87%

of UPI publications are articles of scientific journals,

while publications in the form of seminar proceedings

are 23.98% (Lukman, 2016). UPI research trends

seen from the subject of publication science are

Social Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Humanities,

Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science. The

author of UPI affiliation in Scopus is 181 people. UPI

collaborated with many institutions at home and

abroad, among others, the most is with the Institute

Technology Bandung, Hiroshima University and

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The collaborations

with other countries are at most with Japan, Malaysia

and South Korea.

4 CONCLUSIONS

University strategy in accelerating publication of

research results in the national or international

reputable journals as outlined in the form of higher

education strategic plan or master plan research. The

higher education institutions through Vice Rector IV

or research institute create an institution that focuses

on the publication of research results that is the

institution of journals and publications. The institute

focuses on the outcome of research results to form

academic writing, higher education TOT team,

coaching clinic, article workshop, and the

implementation of international conferences which

organizers are financed or subsidized by the higher

education institution either as organizing committee

or as a partner. The leadership of the institution is

very supportive to the efforts of increasing the

acceleration of research results publication.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Researchers would like to say thank to the head of

PuslitPen UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung who has

been willing to be interviewed and the permission of

researchers to access the PuslitPen document. Further

thanks to the UPI Journal Developer and UPI

publication team for permission to conduct research

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and to Dr. Hj. Isma Widiaty, M.Pd. for his willingness

to be interviewed.

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