Collaboration of Scientific Article Writing between Indonesian

Educational Researchers and Other Countries

Alif Melky Ramdani, Gilang Rayhan R. Hidayat, Ayudha Puspita, Sinta Indriani, Bunyamin Maftuh,

Ade Gafar Abdullah and Cep Ubad Abdullah

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudhi No. 229, Bandung, Indonesia

{alifmelkyramdani, gilangrayhan, ayudhapuspita, sintaindriani, bunyaminmaftuh, ade_gaffar}@upi.edu

Keywords: Collaborative Research, Scientific Articles, Scopus.

Abstract: This article aims to describe the results of a study of researchers at public universities that focus on

education, in Indonesia, collaborating with researchers writing scientific articles abroad. Currently,

researchers around the world are required to conduct research publications in scientific journals. The most

recognized research publications globally are indexed international publications, amongst the most

recognized indexer is Scopus. By using a quantitative approach, through the survey process secondary to the

Scopus database, from 10 universities of education in Indonesia in the period 2012 to 2017. The study found

that the state university researcher who focuses on education resulted in the upward trend in the publication

of scientific articles. None of the universities are collaborating more than half the foreign researchers, and

there is no correlation between publication productivity with collaborative writing scientific articles

between researchers in education Indonesia with foreign researchers.

1 INTRODUCTION

The development of science, technology and

information globally today cannot be separated from

the role of research in every field of science. College

is one of the institutions that have a duty to conduct

research. Productivity of research is produced by

universities with the most productive research

(Scopus, 2017). The results of the research will

provide any ideas, especially in the aspect of

knowledge, in the world of work practices. Research

is an innovation in the world of knowledge, while

practical work is the application of knowledge.

Thus, research and practice in the world of work will

depend on each other. However, the main

characteristics of both are different (Ginsburg and

Gorostiaga, 2001). From both, there is a gap (Lewis

et al., 2012), and this gap exists in various contens of

science (Belli, 2010; Han and Stenhouse 2015; Orr

and Bennett, 2012; Ponti, 2008; Wofford and Troilo,

2013).

The practitioners face the challenge of solving

practical problems that exist in the world of work.

However, researchers are dedicated to conduct

research and strengthen the professional knowledge,

they prefer to publish their findings in scientific

journals, the most important knowledge platform for

scientific communication (Chang, 2017).

Currently all researchers in the world are

required to publish the results of research in

scientific journals, including in Indonesia (Dikti,

2013). Publication of this research was conducted,

so that the progress of science can be developed

more rapidly (Martin and Irvine, 1983). Today, the

most globally recognized research publication is in

the form of internationally indexed scientific articles

(Balhara, 2012), among the most recognized of these

indexers is Scopus. Scopus is the largest scientific

database in the world today because of its source

from various publishers around the world. Scopus

indexed scientific articles into evidence of scientific

research products receive global recognition

(Elsevier, 2017).

Research is one of the activities that must be

done to support the development (Salamon, 1994).

The research process is an application of the

scientific approach in an assessment of the problem

in obtaining useful information for development

(Ary, 2010). Through research, valid data required

in development can be generated (Somekh, 1995).

As one of the countries in the world, Indonesia

would have the interests of national development,

but as part of the world, Indonesia should not ignore

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the direction of global development. Collaborative

work between countries is a step that must be done

globally (Edward, 1999).

Collaboration between countries is not only done

on the field, but in all areas, because it is through

collaborative work will awaken harmonious

relations between states. According to Abdulsyani

(1994) collaboration is a form of social process, in

which there are activities of mutual help and

understanding each other's activities. Collaboration

means working together to achieve common goals

(Roucek and Warren, 1968). Collaboration can be

used as a step taken to suppress the opposition

between the interests of national-oriented with an

internationally oriented (Engel and Siczek, 2017).

One form of collaboration that can be done is

through research in education conducted by

researchers in Indonesia and abroad. Education is a

fundamental knowledge and the processes that

support the development, for which we were trying

to analyze the collaboration undertaken in the field

of education by Indonesia with foreign researchers.

In this study we try to identify the scientific

article writing collaboration between researchers in

education in Indonesia and abroad from 2012 to

2017 at the state university education. Following is

the formulation of the issues discussed in this study:

 Productivity publications college education

field of education;

 Publication of collaboration between

researchers of state universities in the field of

education in Indonesia with overseas

researchers;

 Relationship productivity publications college

education field, with the publication of their

collaboration with overseas researchers.

Collaborative study used to determine the

productivity and the number of authors and

calculating the level of collaboration in terms of

comparisons between institutions and between

disciplines (Surtikanti 2004). The collaboration of

Indonesian researchers with abroad is a strategy to

facilitate mutual openness to both (Ponti, 2013;

Vogel, 2010). Many advantages are gained by

collaborating, among others, the creation of

opportunities to share knowledge, expertise and

certain techniques in a science (Katz and Martin

1997). Collaboration will create a correlation

between Indonesian researchers with overseas

researchers to float the science and have advantages

between them such as the transfer of knowledge and

expertise, exchange ideas, increase productivity,

open intellectual friendship that all can support the

achievement of sustainable development goals

(SDG's) globally.

2 METHODS

This research was conducted with quantitative

approach with data collection technique using

survey. This survey retrieved sample data of

cooperation publications between Indonesian

researchers and abroad from 2012 to 2017. The

survey was conducted secondary to the object of all

scientific articles indexed by the Scopus database

recorded on the web page https://www.scopus.com

from 10 state universities in education, including

Indonesia University of Education, State University

of Malang, Semarang State University, Yogyakarta

State University, Makassar State University, Jakarta

State University, Surabaya State University, Padang

State University, Medan University and Gorontalo

State University. Data collection instruments use

analysis of how much a collaboration of researchers

from Indonesia and abroad in writing articles. This

analysis includes the productivity of scholarly

researcher's scientific articles, collaboration between

in-country researchers and the productivity and

collaboration relationships. Analysis of data

technique using descriptive statistics.

3 RESULTS AND DISSCUSSION

As seen in Figure 1, most of the public universities

that focus on education resulted in an increase in

publications in the period from 2012 to 2017. From

2012 to 2015, the pattern of improvement tends to

be stable from year to year; there is no significant

increase in figures. However, in 2016 a trend

towards a significant increase, and the increase

continued in the same pattern next year.

Of the ten college education fields sampled in

this study, the University of Education Indonesia is a

college with the highest scientific publications,

while the State University of Medan is the lowest

among the other nine. Productivity Indonesia

University of Education is correlative with the

average percentage increase in its publications

during 2012 to 2017, because together with the State

University of Makassar, Indonesia Education

University is a university with an average highest

percentage increase, namely 38 percent. In addition,

State University of Makassar is also listed as a

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college with the highest annual increase by 58

percent, to be exact in 2015.

Figure 1: Productivity Publications of State Universities

Education during the Year 2012-2017.

Table 1 shows the number of article

collaborations in ten state universities in education.

These results put the University of Education

Indonesia at the highest order with the collaboration

of 362 articles. Followed by the State University of

Malang in the second with a number that is less than

half of that owned by the University of Education

Indonesia, which is 102. Then the lowest is the State

University of Medan with 11 articles. If we look at

the existing collaboration trends in educational

research it is seen that none of the state universities

in the education sector collaborate more than half of

them with overseas researchers. This shows that

researchers in state universities in education are

more dominant in collaboration with domestic

researchers than collaboration with abroad.

Based on the quantitative data of publication

collaboration between Indonesian researchers in

State Universities of Education with foreign

researchers, we try to describe correlation with

previous data, whic is data productivity publications

college education with theirs.

Table 1. Publication Research Cooperation between

Indonesia with Foreign Affairs.

University Total of

article (a)

Collaboration

article (b)

b/a

Indonesia

University of

Education

919 362 39%

State University of

Malang

410 102 25%

Semarang State

University

358 93 26%

State University of

Makasa

252 51 20%

Yogyakarta State

University

231 47 20%

State University of

Surabaya

204 16 8%

State University of

Jakarta

206 54 26%

Padang State

University

125 52 42%

State University of

Gorontalo

67 18 27%

State University of

Medan

57 11 19%

The results of the research on the productivity

relations of publications of State Universities of

Education, with the collaboration of writing

scientific articles between Indonesian education

researchers and abroad, show that there is no

correlation between both of them. Due to much lack

of scientific productivity, it does not affect

collaboration with abroad. Although Indonesia

University of Education is the most productive

university, but their publication data is not the

highest, while the highest college of its scientific

articles with abroad is Padang University.

4 CONCLUSIONS

Research collaboration has been regarded as the best

strategy to facilitate mutual understanding between

national interests and international interests, which

in turn bridges the gap in development practice. In

contrast to 2011 and earlier, in 2012 there has been

an increasing trend of publication of scientific

articles in the field of education in Indonesia,

especially since 2016, where there is a significant

increase. The increase of this publication has not

been accompanied by awareness to raise awareness

for collaborative writing of scientific articles with

researchers from other countries. Although this

study uses collaborative analysis to measure

collaborative productivity among Indonesian

researchers in education with overseas researchers,

the results of this study probably do not

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comprehensively explain the research practice gaps

in both. Thus, further research is needed, especially

for more specific collaboration on some disciplines.

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