Sunday, October 16, 2016

Research, Mindset, and World Class University

Research, Mindset, and World Class University

TAK satu pun perguruan tinggi (PT) Indonesia masuk dalam kategori world class university (WCU), baik versi The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), maupun Webometrics. Begitu bunyi data dan statistik internasional terbaru (2016).
Padahal, upaya pemerintah sudah banyak. Antara lain dengan menetapkan sistem penjaminan mutu pendidikan tinggi (SPMPT). SPMPT yang sudah disusun berulang-ulang ini merupakan guideline yang harus dipatuhi dalam usaha meningkatkan mutu tiap-tiap PT.
Namun begitulah. Meskipun guideline sudah ada, PT-PT kita ternyata tidak gampang memenuhi persyaratan, standar, dan kriteria SPMPT.

Perguruan Tingi  Unggulan
Pemerintah tak henti-hentinya memperbaiki mutu PT itu.  Sementara PT yang sudah tidak memenuhi syarat pendirian (abal-abal) direkomendasikan untuk ditutup. Sebaliknya, PT yang sudah baik terus dibina dan ditingkatkan lagi mutunya, bahkan sampai mampu bersaing di tingkat global.
Untuk mencapai maksud tersebut sudah banyak insentif dan hibah disediakan oleh pemerintah, termasuk pembiayaan sarana dan prasarana agar mereka dapat memenuhi standar mutu tadi.
Pada tahun 2015 lalu dibentuk gugus tugas untuk membantu lima PT unggulan nasional untuk mencapai peringkat WCU. Kelima PT unggulan itu adalah Universitas Indonesia (UI), Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Universitas Airlangga, dan Institut Pertanian Bogor, agar –paling tidak– diharapkan bisa masuk 500 top dunia.
Namun ada pertanyaannya. Jika melihat peringkat PT kita yang masih jauh tertinggal, apa mungkin hal itu dapat tercapai? Untuk menjawab hal itu, tentu,  pertama-tama, kembali pada asas, bahwa setiap PT unggulan harus sungguh-sungguh menerapkan SPMPT. Ini hal mendasar yang wajib dipenuhi oleh setiap PT.
Kemudian PT unggulan tadi harus dapat memenuhi tuntutan dan persyaratan lembaga-lembaga internasional. Tanpa langkah penyesuaian ke persyaratan internasional ini, PT kita, meski sudah disebut PT unggulan, tampaknya akan mengalami kesulitan masuk 500 top dunia.

Penuhi Syarat Inti
Ada beberapa persyaratan yang harus dipenuhi untuk masuk WCU. THES (London) mensyaratkan empat hal, yakni  kualitas riset dengan bobot 60%, kesiapan kerja lulusan (10%), pandangan internasional  (international outlook) (10%), dan kualitas pengajaran (20%).
ARWU, yang berkedudukan di Tiongkok, mematok lima syarat, yaitu jumlah alumni/staf yang mendapat penghargaan internasional, jumlah peneliti (dosen) yang risetnya banyak dikutip peneliti lain, jumlah artikel yang diindeks oleh jurnal yang telah ditentukan, persentase artikel yang dipublikasikan jurnal internasional, dan jumlah biaya riset PT yang bersangkutan.
Persyaratan Webomatrics berbeda lagi. Ada empat syarat, yakni berapa banyak tautan situs eksternal dari situs lain, banyaknya “halaman” yang ditemukan “mesin pencari” di internet, banyaknya volume file yang ada di situs PT dalam format pdf, ps, doc, dan powerpoint, dan jumlah tulisan akademik yang dijumpai di Google Scholar.

Dari beragam syarat itu, terdapat  tiga syarat inti yang patut diperhatikan dengan sungguh-sungguh. Pertama, bagaimana perguruan tinggi merancang kegiatan riset yang dapat menghasilkan invensi dan inovasi kualitas dunia.
Kedua, bagaimana agar tulisan peneliti atau dosen dapat dipublikasikan oleh jurnal akademik internasional dan dapat menjadi referensi oleh peneliti dan dosen PT lain.  Dan ketiga, bagaimana staf atau alumni suatu PT dapat meraih penghargaan-penghargaan bertaraf internasional.

Riset dan Mindset
Dari ketiga syarat inti tersebut, tampak bahwa unsur riset merupakan syarat terpenting dalam WCU. Artinya, tanpa reputasi riset, sebuah PT tidak mungkin masuk peringkat dunia. Riset sudah menjadi kewajiban di dunia akedamik, yang mana tradisi ini memang sudah ada sejak dulu kala.
Di Indonesia, tradisi riset masih perlu mendapat perhatian serius. Pada umumnya PT kita masih dominan terkonsentrasi pada kegiatan pendidikan dan pengajaran. Sementara kontribusinya terhadap kegiatan riset masih samar-samar, jika tak boleh disebut “tak-jelas.”
Kiprah riset disini masih diposisikan sebagai ‘academic exercises’, belum fokus pada usaha untuk menghasilkan invensi dan inovasi. Padahal dalam konsep terkini, PT sudah diposisikan menjadi pusat riset (centre of excellent), yang umumnya bekerja sama dengan industri.
Melihat kondisi yang dialami PT kita saat ini, hendaknya para pemimpin PT, peneliti maupun kalangan praktisi perlu mengubah mindset atau orientasi. Seyogianya riset PT kini menghasilkan kekayaan intelektual, invensi, dan inovasi, yang secara nyata dapat dimanfaatkan untuk keperluan masyarakat dan industri sehari-hari.
Buang pemikiran bahwa riset hanya untuk paper atau memenuhi angka kredit, ataupun untuk kenaikan pangkat belaka. Perubahan mindset dan orientasi ini mutlak. Apalagi produk riset PT sudah dituntut –dan semestinya– menjadi bagian pendorong roda perekonomian nasional.
Kembali lagi, jika PT-PT  di Tanah Air dapat memenuhi ketiga syarat inti tersebut, atau riset sudah menjadi prioritas di suatu PT,  bukan tidak mungkin lembaga-lembaga pemeringkat akan mulai memperhitungkan eksistensi PT-PT kita.

Kita harus selalu optimistis.
(Sakti Nasution, Kepala Bagian Hukum, Kerja Sama, dan Layanan Informasi pada Direktorat Jenderal Kelembagaan Ilmu Pengetahuan dan Pendidikan Tinggi Kemenristekdikti).
(http://www.kopertis12.or.id/2016/10/16/research-mindset-and-world-class-university.html)

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

THE CONNECTED FSEI LECTURER


THE CONNECTED FSEI LECTURER:
Publication Activity Toward Ranking University for IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon
by: Aan Jaelani


Introduction
The international and national science citation indices contained in the bibliographic descriptions of articles and reference lists are used in the bibliometric analysis. Evaluation of the publication activity in IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon’s Smart Campus practice began fairly recently in 2016.
Data sourced from international citation databases, such as Google Scholar Citation (Google Cendekia), Research Gate, Academia.Edu, and others have shown activity IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon's lecturer (less than 5%) in conducting scientific publications (see https://fseiiaincirebon.blogspot.co.id/). Scientific publication is the result of research or thought of lecturers reproduced or disseminated through books, articles in scientific journals, and proceedings, then cited and indexed by the international citation databases, or as standardized by Kemenristek & Dikti RI in the assessment of scientific work of lecturers for promotion or academic position (see Dikti, Pedoman Operasional PAK Dosen 2014).
The latest information released by Google Scholar Citations (2016), from page webometric (http://www.webometrics.info), UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta managed to record rank 6 on the measurement of Google Scholar Citations to college national scale (sequentially: UGM, ITB, UPI, UI, Undip, UIN Jakarta, Unbraw, ITS, IPB, and Unpad); or ranked 1 in the PTKIN Kemenag RI. Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature (https://scholar.google.co.id/intl/en/scholar/about.html).
How the activity of scientific publications by lecturers at IAIN Sheikh Nurjati Cirebon, especially in the Faculty of Sharia and Islamic Economy? Where we gain open access to the work it? Where we can also get it through the international citation databases, as well as to obtain articles or references to international university libraries freely?. This article as an introduction to position the importance of scientific publications indexed for lecturers in international citation databases and efforts to raise the ranking of IAIN Sheikh Nurjati Cirebon at national and international levels.

Lecturer/Researcher Profile as Global Trends in Publication Activity
The basic indicator of publication activity is the number of publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals (M.N. Kotsemir, 2012). Activities of this publication will be indexed by a number of international citation databases, both articles, and journals, such as Google Scholar, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, RePEc, DOAJ, Copernicus, Web of Science, Microsoft Academic Search, and Scopus. For scientific journals will be assessed impact factors via ISI Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), or Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) (see Dikti, Pedoman Operasional PAK Dosen 2014).
The analysis of the university’s (department or faculty) research potential is based on indicators for individual researchers. The following key indicators were selected: (1) total number of publications (example in Google Scholar, Scopus), (2) total number of citations, (3) Hirsch index, (4) average number of citations per publications, (5) share of self-citation and citation by co-authors, and (6) share of publications without citation.
One of the global trends in a scientific publication are professors, lecturers, or researchers created a personal profile on the international citation databases, such as Google Scholar Profile, ORCID ID, RePEc ID, SSRN ID, SCOPUS ID, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and others. Your researcher profile is an individual internet profile that provides a user-friendly and efficient way of showcasing your work. Having a unique profile: showcases your work to the world, manages your publications list, helps to be identified by potential collaborators, helps to avoid misidentification, enables your research output to be attributed to IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon, tracks citation counts, enhances your researcher profile page by including a link to other profiles.
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Researcher or Lecturer Profile

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Researcher or Lecturer Profile is one of the most important factors in getting your work noticed, read, and cited is accessibility. You need to make it as easy as possible for people to find your work. Researcher Profile tools among others:
ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID) or “KTP Author” is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers. The ORCID Registry is available free of charge to individuals, who may obtain an ORCID, manage their record of activities, and search for others in the Registry.  Researchers can import their existing publications indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and others, to their ORCID ID via the "Import Research Activities" link in their ORCID record (see http://orcid.org/). For example, Aan Jaelani Profile in ORCID ID, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7134.
ResearcherID (Web of Science). Create and manage a professional profile, build an online publication list, measure performance with cited counts and h-index. Your profile can incorporate data and metrics from Web of Knowledge and from other sources. For example, Jamali Sahrodi Profile in ResearcherID, http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-7338-2016.
Scopus: Author Identifier. Every author in Scopus is automatically assigned an Author ID number (see https://www.scopus.com/).
Google Scholar.  Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place, explore related works, citations, authors, and publications, locate the complete document through your library or on the web, keep up with recent developments in any area of research, and check who's citing your publications, create a public author profile. Click on My Citations to set up an account and collect all your publications appearing in Google Scholar into your account. For example, Mahrus eL-Mawa Profile in Google Scholar Citation, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yX98AyoAAAAJ&hl=id.


Publication Activities in FSEI IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon
Publication activities by lecturers at IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon can be evaluated on the Smart Campus and several international citation databases, such as Google Scholar, ORCID, Academia.edu, and ResearchGate. Data retrieved from the database until Monday, October 3, 2016 (see https://fseiiaincirebon.blogspot.co.id/).
The activities of scientific publications with indicators on Google Scholar Profile by members Faculty (lecturers and students) records following:

Faculty/Departement
Lecturers/Researchers
Students
FITK
9
-
FUAD
2
-
FSEI
40
80
Pascasarjana + EKOS
11
25
Amount
62
105

The activities of scientific publications from Faculty of Shari’a and Islamic Economic (FSEI) based on the work of lecturers on Google Scholar Citation following:

Citation Indices
All
Since 2011
Citation
429
310
h-index
11
9
.i10-index
15
8

While scientific journals are indexed on national journal databases following:

Indexed
Journal Name
Faculty
Google Scholar
Al-Ibtida, Eduma
FITK
Mahkamah, Al-Amwal, Al-Mustashfa
FSEI
Moraref
Eduma
FITK
Portal Garuda
Al-Amwal
FSEI

For international citation databases on Research Gate, publication activity of institutional from faculty and students members can be seen below:
Top 5 BY TOTAL RG SCORE (Indonesia)
University Name
Members
Publications
RG Score
UGM
9254
825
6.232.18
UI
9589
1.164
5.986.49
ITB
6832
1.155
5.962.21
IPB
2541
667
3.998.85
LIPI
1.011
365
2.880.66
IAIN Syekh Nurjati
10
39
5.42
(https://www.researchgate.net/institutions?facility=IAIN_Syekh_Nurjati_Cirebon)

International Publication: FSEI on RePEc-MPRA
International publication activities are the dissemination of scientific papers by FSEI lectures on international citation databases, such as RePEc, MPRA (Munich Personal RePEc Archive), SSRN (Social Science Research Network), Academia.edu, ResearchGate, ScienceOPEN, BASE, OPENAIRE, Baidu Scholar, and others, as well as university libraries in Asia, America, and Europe, such as Universität München, University of Munich, Universitat Bielefeld Germany, University of Harvard, University of Houston Texas, Universitat Harnish Pepperdine, University of Chinese (CUHK), University of Waikato, and others.
Some scientific works in Indonesian and English languages were indexed in databases and the part of references in the library. It also serves as a part of the propagation of Islam, introduced Islam Nusantara, culture and travel in Cirebon, and efforts to boost the ranking IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon.
For example, RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 88 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers. The collected data are then used in various services that serve the collected metadata to users or enhance it. So far, over 1,800 archives from 88 countries have contributed about 2 million research pieces from 2,300 journals and 4,300 working paper series. About 46,000 authors have registered and 75,000 email subscriptions are served every week. See below on how you can be part of this initiative (see http://repec.org/).
This RePEc/IDEAS Ranking (from MPRA) provides links to various rankings of research in economics and related fields. This analysis is based on data gathered with the RePEc project, in which publishers self-index their publications and authors create online profiles from the works indexed in RePEc. Citation analysis is performed by the CitEc project, abstract views and paper downloads are counted by the LogEc project, and the various rankings are then established. Rankings are typically updated around the 3rd to 5th day of each month. Some rankings are updated more frequently. All data is experimental. For Indonesia, there are 163 authors affiliated with 48 institutions.
Indexation of scientific papers in RePEc and Ranking for author and FSEI IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon (August 2016) following:
Top 25% Institutions and Economists in Indonesia, as of August 2016

1. Top 25% institutions in Indonesia (August 2016)

Rank
W.Rank
Institution
Score
Authors
Author shares
1
[1]
1.41
32
26.2
2
[4]
SMERU Research Institute Jakarta, Indonesia
2.27
6
5.5
3
[3]
2.46
14
12.11
4
[2]
3.3
33
32.07
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[---]
4.52
29
25.49
5
[5]
4.95
4
3.18
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[---]
7.34
7
5.97
6
[6]
7.47
4
3.4
7
[7]
9.28
7
7
8
[10]
11.65
3
3
9
[8]
12.22
12
11.5
10
[11]
Bank Indonesia, Jakarta
12.95
4
3.9

2) Top 25% authors in Indonesia (August 2016)

Rank
W.Rank
Author
Score
1
[3]
2.03
2
[5]
2.98
3
[1]
3.6
4
[6]
3.92
5
[2]
4.07
6
[8]
5
7
[11]
9.11
8
[7]
9.19
9
[9]
9.69
10
[13]
12.06
11
[12]
12.57
12
[19]
13.19
13
[15]
14.42
14
[10]
14.74
15
[14]
17.74
16
[21]
19.52
17
[31]
19.65
18
[33]
20.08
19
[34]
21.39
20
[26]
21.51
21
[22]
22.3
22
[28]
23.85
23
[20]
24.2
24
[27]
24.92
25
[32]
25.2
26
[18]
26.13
27
[40]
26.29
28
[29]
26.43
29
[4]
26.67
30
[37]
26.86
(see https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.indonesia.html; http://logec.repec.org/RAS/pja475.htm)

The following affiliations are considered, along with their ranking among all institutions (modify affiliations): Fakultas Syariah dan Ekonomi Islam, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Syekh Nurjati Cirebon, Cirebon, Indonesia (ranked 3556).


Results
The result of the analysis of publication activity from lecturer FSEI IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon using the proposed approach can be used in different ways: correction of the institute (LPPM, Faculty) research and publication activity strategy and capacity building on the campus website (wifi) for scientific publications.


References:
Dirjen Dikti, Pedoman Operasional PAK Kenaikan Pangkat/Jabatan Akademik Dosen 2014, Kemendikbud RI, 2014.
FSEI. “The Connected Faculty of Sharia & Islamic Economic (FSEI) IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon Researcher”. Retrieved on https://fseiiaincirebon.blogspot.co.id/, October 4, 2016.
Kemenag RI. “UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Ranking 6 Google Scholar Citation Nasional”. Retrieved on https://www.kemenag.go.id/berita/387451/uin-syarif-hidayatullah-ranking-6-google-scholar-citation-nasional, Juli 30, 2016.
Kotsemir, M.N. (2012). Publication Activity of Russian Researches in Leading International Scientific Journals. Moscow: National Research University Higher School of Economics.
UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. “UIN Jakarta Masuk 6 Besar Google Scholar Citations Nasional.” Retrieved on  http://www.uinjkt.ac.id/id/uin-jakarta-masuk-6-besar-google-scholar-citations-nasional/, Juli 27,  2016.
Universitas Canberra Australia. “Citation Databases A-Z”. Retrieved on http://www.canberra.edu.au/library/research-gateway/databases, October 4, 2016.


Biografi Penulis:
All my papers can be downloaded from portal:
3. SSRN; http://ssrn.com/author=2555293