On 15th – 18th March, 2022, For the purpose of elevating the students’ skills in research and starting their dissertation preliminary studies, the RPI Institutes has organized a bibliometric analysis workshop for the doctoral students’ program of Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. The participants consisted of seven doctoral students who want to do their preliminary studies in order that they will find the research gap or novelty easier for the dissertation using Bibliometrics analysis. The workshop was guided by the notable presenter, Prof. Ade Gafar Abdullah, M.Si., and also helped by three instructors from RPI Institute members placed in the RPI office.
Bibliometrics Analysis (BA) is a research based on Systematic Literature Review (SLR) that the data comes from databases such as Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), PubMed, etc. Bibliometrics Analysis can also uncover trends in emerging research topics in current scientific articles and journals, observe patterns of collaboration and research constituencies, and explore the intellectual structure of a particular topic in the existing literature. The workshop consisted of Bibliometric Analysis introduction, stages in writing Bibliometrics Analysis, how to find originality and novelty, data mining (from database), introduction to Bibliometrics Analysis tools such as Openrefine, VOSviewer, and Tableau, tricks for writing method and result.
On the first day of the workshop, the participants learned about Bibliometrics Analysis and tried to construct their keywords for searching the data through the Scopus database. Due to the limited access to the Scopus account, the participants have full access to ask for the data for the instructors based on their own constructed keywords. Furthermore, the three additional instructors also helped and assisted them to install the tools for Bibliometric analysis. On the second and third days, the participants were focused to learn how to analyze and visualize their data through Openrefine, VOSviewer, and Tableau. After succeeding in visualizing their data, they were guided to interpret the data. On the last day, they were only concentrating on writing and interpreting the visualization results.
Not only learning to write the Bibliometrics Analysis but the participants are also expected to write and publish their articles in the journal as one of the doctoral program requirements, publishing article.
