Scopus, new colonialis
As a university student, I see there is a kind of analogy between exports and Scopus - a scientific database owned by Elsevier and headquartered in Amsterdam.
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The performance of college professors today is also determined by Scopus indexed publication. This is tantamount to exports that must meet European standards.
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A lecturer is considered unproductive if he does not export his research paper to the Scopus-indexed International Journal. Export results and research data to the Scopus-indexed International Journal shows a peculiarity with increasing degrees.
First
we are voluntary even by *paying, submitting our research results to strangers. Whereas before the colonists had to conduct their own research into the colony.
Second
we are even increasingly dependent on the assessment of foreigners to assess our scientific performance.
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I must say that this is colonialism in a new form, in today's asymmetrical war
If a researcher's fame is measured through his Scopus index, a young researcher colleague of mine says that the fame makes sincerity even more difficult.
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The problem is the doctrine that fame is important has infiltrated our minds when ranking began in school. Those who ranked high are the champions, and the low ranking is the losers.
This year-long performance assessment has led to a wide deprived emotional dependency-the equivalent of the extraordinary Genesis-in which almost everyone is confused if not ranked, and immediately feels a loser if the rankings are below.
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If sincerity is a loyalty to the operational procedures, then be patient is the istiqamah on purpose, then ranking in various forms performed by strangers over us, we should sikapi with more relaxed if still care.
Therefore we need to be patient so that our sincere opportunity can be better if we strengthen the domestic market with high value-added products through the inspiration of our research results rather than busy submitting our data and research results in order to serve foreigners ranking.
Sukolilo, January 29, 2018
Daniel Mohammad Rosyid is Professor of ITS Surabaya
https://www.pwmu.co/51879/2018/01/kolonialisme-baru-itu-bernama-ekspor-dan-indeks-scopus/