Manuscript Clinic for Lecturer: Why and How?
Albrian Fiky Prakoso, Triesninda Pahlevi, Novi Marlena, Retno Mustika Dewi and Ajeng Hapsari
Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
albrianprakoso@unesa.ac.id
Keywords: Manuscript Clinic, Lecturer, International Journal.
Abstract: One of the problems that faced by Lecturer in submitting their promotion is the lack of publication of
scientific articles in reputable international journals. It caused by some reasons such as: having no idea to
write, lack of lecturer’s knowledge in writing techniques, wrong choosing the journal to submit, and not
understanding journal submitting know-how. The purposes are identifies why the manuscript clinic needs to
be held and how to apply it. The results of this paper are; (1) Lecturer has successfully in submitting of
reputable journal and also its article can be published; (2) The application of manuscript clinic: Orcid and
Researcher ID registration; article review; Searching the reputable Journal; The tutorial of submitting. The
most important conclusion of this paper is the lecturer should be joining manuscript clinic in order to more
easily and precisely submitting in reputable journal. Next, there should be held virtual manuscript clinic.
1 INTRODUCTION
As for lecturers with heads of lecture positions are
required to conduct scientific publications of at least
three scientific papers published in accredited
national journals or at least one scientific paper
published in international journals, patents or
monumental / monumental artworks within a period
of three years.
Reputable International Journals in Indonesia
include Indexed Journals on Thomson Routers,
Scopus, and Microsoft Academic Search (MAS). Of
the three indexers, the Scopus is the most targeted.
To be able to publish articles into reputable
international journals is not easy, therefore offered
in this article in the form of training with the name
of manuscript clinic and expected to be more
effective such as training that has been offered by
Ghosh et al. (2012). The universities that have
implemented the manuscript clinic are Universitas
Negeri Surabaya (Unesa). This article aims to
explore training as has been done by Rao (2013) on
"Meka's method"; Arghode & Wang (2016) on
Exploring trainers' engaging instructional practices;
Prendergast (2016) on Training and developing
nonIrish workers. While this article explores the
manuscript clinic that has been done by Unesa, East
Java, Indonesia to be followed by other universities
in Indonesia. Thus the number of scientific
publications of Indonesian Universities in
international Journal is of increasing reputation.
2 METHODS
Articles are included in explorative research.
Excavation of information is done in detail about
how and how the implementation of manuscript
clinic conducted by Unesa precisely in the field of
Academic led by Vice Rector of Academic Mrs.
Yuni Sri Rahayu with Manuscript Team and guided
by the speaker Mr. Muhammad Arsyad from
Hasanuddin University (Unhas).
3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
3.1 Why?
As discussed earlier, this manuscript clinic is done to
facilitate lecturers to publish their scientific work. If
lecturers do not do their scientific publications they
will not get the benefits as professors or as heads of
lecturers.
On the other hand, the ranking of universities is
also a distinct prestige among lecturers both at the
national and ASEAN levels. However, at the
ASEAN level, Indonesia is still ranked 4 and lags far
behind other ASEAN countries, especially Malaysia.
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Figure 1: Number of Scopus Publications of ASEAN
Countries
Source: Minister of Research Technology and
Higher Education (2017b)
If at the level of ASEAN, Indonesia is still in
position 4 and far adrift with Malaysia, how on the
ASIA level? What's more on the world rankings?
Improvements should be made at each college to
encourage lecturers to publish their scientific work
to reputable international journals. This has been
done by Unesa with manuscript clinic.
Table 1: Ranking of Universities in Indonesia in Scopus Indexed Publications
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Comparison: UKM Malaysia
Bangi Selangor
14897
16571
18714
19878
21336
22692
28134
Date
11/07/
13
22/01
/14
05/08
/14
28/01
/15
07/08
/15
04/01
/16
21/02
/17
1
Institut Teknologi Bandung
Bandung
2961
3302
3872
4094
4668
5033
7058
2
Universitas Indonesia
Jakarta
2614
2906
3273
3484
3832
4123
5950
3
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Yogyakarta
1537
1675
1884
1981
2169
2741
4356
4
Institut Pertanian Bogor
Bogor
1099
1226
1440
1551
1741
1917
2775
5
Institut Teknologi Sepuluh
Nopember
Surabaya
694
832
1016
1115
1269
1389
2124
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
46
Universitas Negeri Surabaya
Surabaya
#
#
#
#
#
#
146
47
Universitas Negeri Jakarta
Jakarta
#
32
48
176
92
101
143
48
Univeritas Lambung
Mangkurat
Banjarmasin
37
47
60
74
80
93
140
49
Univeritas Bengkulu
Bengkulu
51
58
66
67
82
89
136
50
Univeritas Tarumanagara
Jakarta
64
71
80
83
91
98
131
Source: Gunawan in Minister of Research Technology and Higher Education (2017b)
In early 2013 to 2016, unesa has no publication on
scopus. But at the end of 2016, within a period of ±
1 year unesa can reach the 46th rank in 50 major
universities in Indonesia with a total of 146
scientific articles indexed scopus. Thus, other
universities can follow the way of unesa in order to
increase the number of scopusindexed scientific
publications.
3.2 How?
Implementation of manuscript clinic is done by
forming a cycle. This is done so that later all the
articles submitted in reputable international journals
become reviewed and finally accepted for
publication.
31 December 2016 = 9,989 SCOPUS
PUBLICATIONS INDONESIA
Publication Profile of ASEAN
Countries
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Figure 2: Manuscript Clinic Implementation Cycle
If there is a lecturer whose article is rejected by
one of the journals, then the Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs along with the Manuscript Team
will recall the lecturer to follow the advanced class
manuscript clinic. The calling will continue until the
lecturer's article is received.
However, if the article has been accepted, the
lecturer is deemed to have been able to publish
scientific articles to reputable international journals.
As an enrichment material, the lecturer should assist
other fellow lecturers to publish their articles on the
faculty of their respective work units. Furthermore,
the lecturer should also promote the model of
manuscript clinic to other universities as has been
done by Rana et al. (2016). This promotion is done
so that all universities in Indonesia know how to
submit and partition in scientific publications in
reputable international journals.
4 CONCLUSIONS
The lecturer should be joining manuscript clinic in
order to more easily and precisely submitting in
reputable journal. Manuscript clinic should also be
done by other universities to increase the number of
international journal publication in Indonesia.
Manuscript clinic is based on cycles. The
Manuscript Clinic Cycle shall be followed by the
lecturer until the article is received in one of the
reputable international journals. If the lecturer's
article has been accepted, the lecturer should assist
other colleagues to publish their articles on the
faculty of each work unit. Next, manuscript clinic
should be held virtually and through social media
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you very much for Academic led by Vice
Rector of Academic Mrs. Yuni Sri Rahayu with
Manuscript Team Unesa and guided by the speaker
Mr. Muhammad Arsyad from Hasanuddin Universi-
ty (Unhas).
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