{"id":138,"date":"2026-04-30T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pasca-sastrainggris.um.ac.id\/?p=138"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:28:14","slug":"um-and-walailak-university-target-q1-scopus-journals-through-equity-lpdp-joint-supervision-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasca-sastrainggris.um.ac.id\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"UM and Walailak University Target Q1 Scopus Journals Through EQUITY-LPDP Joint Supervision Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An LPDP affirmative programme pairing Indonesian promoters with cross-border co-promoters to accelerate doctoral publication in top-tier indexed journals.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MALANG \u2014 Universitas Negeri Malang (UM) has partnered with Walailak University, Thailand, in a Joint Supervision programme funded by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) under the EQUITY scheme. The series of activities was held at UM’s Faculty of Letters from 22 to 25 April 2026, with the principal aim of accelerating doctoral publication in journals indexed in the first quartile (Q1) of Scopus.
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EQUITY-LPDP is an affirmative programme designed by LPDP in collaboration with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology to strengthen the quality of doctoral research. The scheme places Indonesian promoters and co-promoters from partner universities abroad within a single co-supervisory framework. For this round, the visiting co-promoter was Assoc. Prof. Dr. Budi Waluyo of the School of Languages and General Education, Walailak University\u2014a scholar listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2025 by Stanford University and recipient of the Princess Chulabhorn Gold Research Awardee 2025 & 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Yazid Basthomi and Dr. Evynurul Laili<\/mark><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The activities opened with a closed-door discussion involving the UM promoter team, Prof. Yazid Basthomi and Dr. Evynurul Laili. The forum served both to align the direction of the ongoing doctoral research and to set the starting point for the publication strategy.
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Dissecting the Anatomy of a Q1 Manuscript<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main agenda took place on 23 April 2026 in a workshop entitled “Cracking Q1 Scopus Indexed Journals: A Simple Guide to High Impacts Publishing”. The session was attended by lecturers, postgraduate students, and doctoral candidates within UM’s Faculty of Letters.
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For more than three hours, participants were guided through the logic of journal quartile rankings, the expectations of editors at reputable journals, and the anatomy of manuscripts that stand a chance of clearing peer review. The presenter underscored that the high rejection rate at Q1 journals largely stems from avoidable mistakes: weak novelty, mismatch between the topic and the journal’s scope, shallow theoretical framing, and failure to follow author guidelines.
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“Strategy is just as important as the quality of the research itself<\/em>,” Budi Waluyo emphasised during his session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The workshop then unpacked manuscript structure in detail: an introduction that builds urgency within 500\u2013700 words; a literature review organised by themes and debates rather than article-by-article summaries; a transparent methodology; and a discussion section which, according to the presenter, “is most often where a manuscript falls apart<\/em>“. Participants were also coached on how to respond to reviewer comments professionally\u2014a skill rarely taught formally in doctoral programmes yet decisive for a manuscript’s fate.
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Feedback Literacy: From the Doctoral Classroom to International Publication<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the public forum, the programme also featured intensive supervision sessions for the awardee from UM’s English Language Education doctoral programme, Mala Rovikasari. In these closed sessions, the theoretical framework, methodological design, and publication plan were examined closely with the promoter and co-promoter team.
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The doctoral research developed under this programme explores the area of students’ feedback literacy in research writing\u2014a study of how students develop the capacity to interpret, manage, and act on feedback in the process of academic writing. The topic occupies a relatively underexplored niche, in part because feedback has long been positioned as something produced by lecturers rather than as a competence that students themselves must cultivate. Yet the ability to interpret and strategically act on feedback is among the strongest predictors of academic success at the postgraduate level.
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The implications of the research operate at multiple levels. At the micro level, the findings are expected to inform supervisory practice, encouraging supervisors to move beyond the act of correction and to deliberately build students’ capacity to read and use feedback. At the institutional level, the results may inform the design of academic writing support programmes for doctoral students. At the policy level, the study opens a discussion on the need to integrate feedback literacy as a formal competence within the academic writing curriculum. The Southeast Asian context, still underrepresented in the global literature, will serve as one of the points of novelty positioned as an entry point into high-impact journals.
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Contribution to the SDGs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The programme intersects with two agendas of the Sustainable Development Goals. SDG 4\u2014Quality Education is reflected in efforts to build a higher education ecosystem that nurtures more autonomous postgraduate learners. SDG 17\u2014Partnerships for the Goals, in turn, is realised through the South\u2013South partnership pattern between UM and Walailak University, which opens a route to research internationalisation that does not always have to rely on partnerships with Western universities.
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The Way Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a mandatory output of the EQUITY-LPDP programme, the awardee and the supervisory team are working towards completing and submitting a manuscript to a Q1 Scopus journal in the field of language education or higher education. The collaboration between UM and Walailak University is also expected to extend beyond a single supervisory cycle and to develop into a longer-term research network involving lecturers and students from both institutions.
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“You do not need to be a perfect scholar to publish in a Q1 journal, but you do need to be a strategic, persistent, and reflective one<\/em>,” Budi Waluyo said in closing the workshop.
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Keywords:<\/strong> EQUITY-LPDP, Joint Supervision, Universitas Negeri Malang, Walailak University, Q1 Scopus, Feedback Literacy, SDG 4, SDG 17, Research Internationalisation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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