LPPM UNPRI Holds Webinar:
“How to Detect Predatory, Discontinue and Hijacked Journals”
Related to efforts to improve the quality of publications for all lecturers in the UNPRI environment, the Institute for Research and Community Development (LPPM) held a webinar "How to Detect Predatory, Discontinue and Hijacked Journals."
The holding of this webinar cannot be separated from the demands of lecturers to publish papers in international journals indexed in databases such as SCOPUS, Web of Science and Elsevier so that sometimes they have not received guidance on how to choose the right journal.
In the webinar held on Thursday, December 22, 2022, LPPM UNPRI invited the Chancellor of Unisbank and Research Reviewers of the Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia Indonesia, Dr. Edy Winarno, S.T., M.Eng as a speaker
The webinar was attended online by the Chancellor of UNPRI, Prof. Dr. Chrismis Novalinda Ginting, M.Kes, WR I UNPRI, Abdi Dharma, S.Kom, M.Kom, Chairperson of LPPM UNPRI, Edy Fachrial, S.Si, M.Si as the event's organizing committee, representatives from deans, heads of study programs, heads of bureaus, lecturers, and the academic community of UNPRI Medan.
The event began with remarks from the Chairperson of LPPM. In his remarks, Edy Fachrial expressed his appreciation to the Chancellor of Unisbank who had taken the time to present his material. The material on the selection of SCOPUS-indexed journals is an inseparable part of the tri dharma of higher education.
"Publication is one of the requirements for a lecturer's career, especially for functional positions, and it is unfortunate that many researchers are still trapped in publications in predatory journals, and the data will continue to be identified digitally," said Fachrial
The event continued with remarks from the UNPRI Chancellor, Prof. Dr. Chrismis Novalinda Ginting, M.Kes, as well as the opening of the webinar.
"We from the university are very concerned about the careers of lecturers, especially considering that the majority of UNPRI lecturers are young and productive, so it is hoped that this webinar can improve the functional positions of lecturers. Several incidents experienced by UNPRI lecturers, they have published in journals and made the payment process but the journals were hijacked." said Chrismis in his remarks
The implementation of the webinar was guided directly by the head of LPPM UNPRI as moderator
In delivering his material, Winarno touched on the importance of rules related to publication for lecturers. The matter presented by the Chancellor of UNPRI, related to lecturers who have paid for publication and received incentives from the university but whose journals turned out to be hijacked is also a phenomenon that occurs at Unisbank, so identifying predatory and hijacked journals is very important.
Furthermore, matters related to the publication and citation of this article itself have an impact on the accreditation of the study program to achieve excellent/very good
"One of the criteria for achieving excellent/very good accreditation is to have an average lecturer citation of around 10 citations, in SCOPUS, Web of Science and Elsevier", said Winarno
Winarno conveyed three points in his presentation, namely (1) the PAK (Credit Assessment) rules of the Directorate General of Higher Education regarding functional positions of lecturers (2) Predatory, discontinued, hijacked journals and (3) how to find quality journals.
In the first point, the thing that needs to be noted is that the PAK DIKTI rules will continue to increase, the threshold point limit for lecturers to achieve a functional position (jafa), especially Professor.
"Many have found that when taking care of functional positions such as Senior Lecturer (LK), outputs related to publications or Intellectual Patents, there are special requirements that cannot be denied so that lecturers will be constrained, such as SINTA indexed or international journals," said Winarno
He continued, "Many lecturers who submit LK and are rejected because of the publication point"
This explanation leads to Winarno's next point, namely the identification of predatory journals or publishers (questionable journals) so that lecturers are not trapped into publishing in these journals.
Talking about these questionable journals, there is actually no official regulation from PAK Dikti regarding the list of journals that are not allowed to be submitted, but only an appeal. In fact, this regulation is only explicitly implemented in Indonesia. To identify these predatory journals, PAK DIKTI refers to the websites predatoryjournals.com and beallslist.net,
"These predatory journals refer to journals that publish articles solely as a business, thus demanding a high Article Publication Cost (APC) with unclear peer-review and fast publication times," said Winarno, "journals that seek profit by cheating, fraud or using ISSN irregularly, and there is no information on the impact factor"
The PAK functional promotion team does not and immediately make beallslist and predatory journals as references, and will always update the list of blacklisted journals through their official websites.
While discontinued journals themselves refer to journals that are no longer included in reputable international databases, namely Web of Science, SCOPUS and MAS (Microsoft Academic Search)
Winarno gave an example of a journal, namely, the Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences which was discontinued so that it was written in Scopus coverage years (from 2008 to 2017), while journals that are still active, such as the International Journal of Advances in Intelligent Informatics will be written (from 2015 to present) This can be reviewed directly via scopus.com or scimagojr.com
Continuing to hijacked journals, referring to journals that are exactly the same as the original journal (cloning) and use the name of the institution to be indexed in Scopus.
"Hopefully these tips and tricks can help UNPRI lecturers to be free from publications in predatory, discontinued or hijacked journals," Winarno hoped
In the last point, Winarno gave an example of how to find quality journals to avoid problems related to questionable journals. "SJR and impact factor are PAK DIKTI standards for determining reputable international journals that can be checked via scimagojr.com," explained Winarno
The event continued with a question and answer session from UNPRI lecturers who enthusiastically asked questions related to publications in reputable journals in international databases
The event was closed by the symbolic handover of speaker certificates and a group photo documentation session
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