In the present, academics in the country face the challenge of writing and publishing their research into a nationally-renowned international scientific form. Based on these considerations, the Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) UGM held a training entitled “Workshop of Academic Writing and Publication for Social Sciences” (16/08) at Auditorium of Graduate School UGM. This training can also be realized due to cooperation with the Publisher and Publication Board (BPP) UGM. This activity is a series of World Class Professor (WCP) program initiated by Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education. CESASS is a member of the WCP consortium with the Center for Disaster Mitigation and Coastal Rehabilitation (PKMBRP) of Universitas Diponegoro, and the Center for Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Studies of Universitas Syiah Kuala. Each consortium member can implement innovative programs for knowledge production.
On this occasion, CESASS invited Professor Thomas Hanitzch, Head of the Department of Communication and Media Research from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) as the keynote speaker. He is a world-class professor in Communication Science, especially Journalism. In addition, Prof. Hanitzch has many experiences as editor and editorial team of international social science journals, including Journal of Communication Theories. The training was opened by Vice Rector of UGM for Research and Community Service, drg. Ika Dewi Ana, M.Kes., Ph.D, who in her speech emphasized the importance of scientific journal publication to help improve the accreditation of the university. The moderator was Dr.phil. Vissia Ita Yulianto, researcher from CESASS.
In this training, Prof. Thomas Hanitzch explained that academic publications have two functions, namely scientific function and strategic function. The scientific function of academic journals aims to find out the results of research and develop a scientific discourse, while its strategic function can enhance academic reputation, career and development towards the related fields. Furthermore, Prof. Hanitzsch described several indexes used to measure a journal such as number of publications, giving more weight to frequently cited articles and corrects for multiple (co-) authorship. An article had passed through a series of processes before the editorial team published it in the journal.
This activity was attended by participants from various disciplines. The second session speaker was Purwoko, M.A from BPP UGM who gave workshop materials about the practice of checking plagiarism and reference management. Purwoko gave tips how to see whether articles or journals that we write is not plagiarism by using a software. Participants were also invited to directly practice the use of the software. The material in this second session was expected to help participants to avoid and prevent plagiarism. (Inov)