UNAIR NEWS – A university ranking publisher, Quacquarelli Symonds, has just published its latest Asia University Ranking (QS AUR) on Tuesday, October 17. Universitas Airlangga is at the 171st, improved by 19 places from the previous year at the 190th.
Head of Planning and Development Board UNAIR Prof. Badri Munir Sukoco Ph.D was grateful for this latest result. However, Prof. Badri said that there are still many things to do in order to improve the institution quality.
Badri said that UNAIR’s academic reputation is considerably high in Asia. Unfortunately, it was not followed by other indicators.
“UNAIR has a boost on its academic reputation, Academic reputation of UNAIR improved 10 points but unfortunately it is only weighted 30 percent. For academic reputation, our ranking is the 95th in Asia. Our problem is on performance,” stated Badri.
The performance meant here covers some indicators such as the number of papers produced by lecturers in each faculty, the number of lecturers with doctoral degree as well as the number of foreign students learning in UNAIR.
“Paper per faculty, Ph.D staffs, inbound students must be improved,” said the lecturer who was just inaugurated as a professor.
In this occasion, Prof. Badri encouraged the lecturers who are taking their doctoral degree to finish their studies and return to UNAIR. The others who do not have a doctoral degree should take it soon. He also expected the alumni of have done their doctoral degree to give general lecture in UNAIR. It also affects the ranking from QS University Rankings.
Improving Publications
Prof. Badri explained that UNAIR was deemed late regarding its publication boost in Scopus indexed journals as the other universities have done it first.
“UNAIR asked the lecturers to publish at Scopus journals in 2015. Not before, when the other universities had already doing it,” stated Badri.
In 2014, UNAIR publications indexed Scopus was at 111. It is still improving significantly, as of October 12, there are 286 publications in Scopus.
To get good score in publication, Prof. Badri suggest the lecturers to work with researchers or experts from other universities or countries. In his opinion, UNAIR lecturers mostly still work with others in UNAIR.
“If we want to be competitive, we can use the international partnership grants, national strategic research (PSN), it will be better. Because we can work together with other researchers from other countries and the publication will improve,” he stated. (*)
Author: Binti Q. Masruroh
Editor: Nuri Hermawan
