Towards the Internationalization of Journals at FPSB
The internationalization of journals within the FPSB UII is increasingly urgent. This is in line with issuing a new regulation from the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education regarding Guidelines for Accreditation of Scientific Journals in 2021. This regulation was made and ratified in mid-2021. This regulation contains several changes that make all journal managers at UII have to adapt to international standards.
Based on the Guide to Accreditation of Scientific Journals issued in 2021 by decree Number 106/E/KPT/2021, the Director-General of Higher Education, Ministry of education, several changes emerged. For example, there must be a certain number of reviewers involved. In the past, accreditation standards only required the existence of a reviewer, now not only that, now reviewer must be internationally qualified and come from at least four countries. Points on this item are valued at six points. If you want high journal accreditation assessment points, the composition of these four countries also applies to the design of the internationally qualified editing board. Writers should also come from more than five countries in a year.
Yuli Andriansyah said this at the Journal Internationalization Workshop for UII Psychology Journal Staff on December 9, 2021. Although it was intended for Psychology staff, staff from the Communication Journal, AJMC, JEE, and JIP were also present because of the urgency of internationalization covering all journals in the end. Yuli Andriansyah, Lecturer of Islamic Economics and senior in journal management at UII, said that all national journals that want to maintain or improve their SINTA must inevitably have review partners, editors, and even authors from more than one four countries.
On this occasion, Yuli, the manager of the Millah and Unisia journals, started the workshop by studying the Higher Education accreditation guidelines and introducing international journals. The introduction is also done by exploring and recognizing the characteristics of writers and journals called international writers and journals of international repute. The introduction of international journals and publishers brings understanding and the introduction of suitable review partners and experts in their fields. Also, an example of looking at academic expertise from the Scopus H-index and campus credibility. In the end, in the second session, all staff were asked to practice tracking collecting a database of prospective authors, editorial boards, and international reviewers.
