MEKK FEB UI Equiped Students with Scopus Indexed International Journal Publication Strategies
Nino Eka Putra ~ Humas FEB UI
DEPOK – Students of the Masters of Population and Labor Economics (MEKK) class of 2018 are equipped with Thesis Progress Workshop and Scientific Publication Training in collaboration with Bappenas Pusbindiklatren by presenting expert speakers in their fields which took place in Kartono Gunawan, LD, on Thursday (12/5/2019 ).
This activity was preceded by presentations from 7 students with different thesis titles, among which first, Resti Sopiyono discussed Young and Unemployed: Have Unemployed Parents Listen to Them. Second, Indah Lukitasari discusses the Slow Motion of Women’s Labor Force Participation in Indonesia. Third, Financy Ramadhani discusses the Impact of Parents / Elders with Functional Disorders in the Household Against Women’s Work Participation.
Then, fourthly, Fajar Santoso Putra discusses Determinants of Teenage Pregnancy in Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia and Myanmar. Fifth, Ahmad Rifki Febrianto discusses the Contextual Determination of Fertility in Indonesia Multilevel Regression Approaches for Women’s Work. Sixth, Anggi Putri discusses the Disability and Wages of the Labor Market in Indonesia. And seventh, Oktaviana Prayudhani discusses the Migration and Capacity of Children in the Future. After that, presentation of material from 3 speakers regarding journal selection, writing articles from the editor’s side, and the publication process.
EFI Editor and Research Wakabid of the Institute for Economic and Community Research (LPEM) FEB UI, Kiki Verico explained that scientific papers are written and published reports describing the results of the original research. In writing a paper, the steps that need to be taken are to reduce reading comments on social media and start multiplying reading journals, reading and writing must be balanced, look for reference names to find the name of the main author, be honest with yourself because you are fully responsible for the written journal.
An important part of a scientific paper consists of a title explaining the core content of the paper, abstracting summarizing the main elements of the paper, introductory giving providing context and reasons for this research, material containing explanations of experimental design so that it can be reproduced, methods by describing experimental procedures, the results are a summary of findings without interpretation, a discussion containing interpreting research findings, a summary of a summary of findings, acknowledgment in the form of awards to those who help you, and references in the form of listing all scientific papers, books, and websites that you quote.
Before starting to write a paper, we need to record readings, make tables, graph images, save files to record summaries of results and observations of anything that is not important, date the files, improve readings, you may need to repeat experiments while still having material, and write ideas whenever they come to you.
“For that, start writing from simple things like determining ideas (starting from something easy, building questions & making answers, identifying who is affected, preparing solutions & building alternative solutions then explaining), write (create a logical framework of the problem until the solution, break down each frame and stay together, adjust the language & method so that it can be read publicly, print read & make the writing flow),” said Kiki Verico.
He added, the strategy that must be carried out so that our papers / journals can be published to international journals indexed by Scopus must aim high starting from the easiest, writing academic papers correctly, sending papers as well as attending seminars / conferences, editor lists, quantitative method preferences & qualitative, and start from continuing the working paper before it is stated in the journal, and check before sending the paper as a whole starting from turnitin, grammarly, proofread (zero defect).
“Journal is the highest thing like a coconut tree. Then follow the stages so that you will reach its peak. Because you can never jump and have to try to climb to get to the top of the tree, “Kiki Verico’s inspirational message to students at the end of his presentation.
JEPI Editor and lecturer at the FEB UI Department of Economics, Djoni Hartono, said that the JEPI version of the article structure must meet criteria including a title of no more than 12 words, full author’s name & address, correspondence address, abstract (consisting of objectives, methods, and results) , keywords, JEL classification, introduction, reference review, methods, results & analysis, conclusions, and bibliography. The methods and results section is optional for writing in the form of thoughts.
The specification desired by JEPI is to change the writing to around 6000-8000 words, the introduction consists of 1-2 pages, 2-3 page review literature, 1-2 pages method, the results of 10-12 pages (minimum 60% of writing), introduction ( problem formulation / importance of research, goal contribution), difficulty in making a good literature review, developing methods that truly describe what is in the research results, presenting results & elaborating them, and failure to deliver conclusions & policy implications. A good journal contains 80% of references from scientific articles that are current or updated.
“In my experience as a reviewer that what was written in the results, you did not explain it in the methods section. The editor wants to see in the first two pages is finding novelty. If on the first two pages no novelty is found, the editor will be lazy to read it. In addition, the editor also wants a good quality paper in terms of appearance (such as writing equations, pictures, tables, how to present writing) and substance (consisting of writing format, rules of scientific writing, the importance of research conducted, contributions, consistency between objectives, methods, results, and conclusions/policy implications),” said Djoni Hartono.
ISEI Indonesia Economic Journal Editor, Mohamad Dian Revindo added that the purpose of the journal to be published include among others the position / rank credit numbers, input for our research, disseminating information & knowledge (recognition, networking, inner satisfaction), scientific writing techniques & journal management including rapidly growing fields (writers, reviewers, editors) to add networking and coaching.
“Tips so that our journals can be published internationally indexed by Scopus, we must prepare manuscripts starting from technical editors / peer reading, reading of evidence, checking for plagiarism. Then, submissions such as careful journal & author guidelines, quotation papers from journals, cover letters. Next, review the report in terms of general, abstract, preliminary considerations to provide a statement explaining the research contributions, literature review, methodology. And the results are well interpreted and incorporated into the perspective of existing literature and conclusions explain how research has created knowledge,” he concluded. (Des)
