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Ministry pushes institutions to publish 7,000 journals in two years
The Research, Technology and Higher Education Ministry is pushing Indonesian researchers to publish more accredited journals, targeting 7,000 journal titles in the next two years.
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According to ministry data, the current number of accredited journals stands at 1,200, with 37 of them having been accredited internationally.
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he Research, Technology and Higher Education Ministry is pushing Indonesian researchers to publish more accredited journals, targeting 7,000 journal titles in the next two years.
According to ministry data, the current number of accredited journals stands at 1,200, with 37 of them having been accredited internationally.
The ministry’s research enhancement and development director general, M. Dimyati, said recently in Semarang that the growth of journal titles had improved after the government merged two accreditation institutions—the ministry and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI).
“After the merging, we’ve seen more new scientific, accredited journals every year,” he said during the discussion on a ministerial regulation on accreditation.
The government is pushing for more accreditors and assessors, Dimyati said.
However, universities say creating new journals is not easy. “Journal making is voluntary and the creators are sometimes not professionals,” said Delik Hudayah, an officer at the journal management unit of the Bandung Institute of Technology. “Journals also depend on individuals, they are not a product of a system. When the person dies, the journal dies too.”
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article misstated that the ministry wanted institutions to publish 7,000 new journals in two years. This figure is in fact the target the ministry seeks to reach. As there are some 1,200 journals currently, this means the ministry is seeking the creation of roughly 5,800 new journals.
