Starting the agenda of increasing the UGM journal indexed by Scopus in 2019, on Thursday 21 March the BPP held a UGM Journal Workshop towards Scopus’. The purpose of the workshop was to accompany journals at UGM that were potentially indexed to Scopus. The two journals evaluated were accompanied by the Indonesian Plant Protection Journal (JPTI) from the Faculty of Agriculture and the Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IKAT) from the Southeast Asian Center for Social Studies with resource persons and assistants Dr. Purwani Istiana, MA., And Siti Nurleily Marliana, S.Si., Ph.D.
The first session began with a presentation by Dr. Purwani Istiana, SIP., M.A. which explains the minimum criteria that the journal must have in order to be indexed by Scopus, namely (1) the published article has gone through a peer review flow, (2) a minimal abstract written in English, (3) published regularly and on time, (4) references are written in Latin letters, and (5) already have publication ethics. Siti Nurleily Marliana, S.Si., Ph.D in the second session specifically evaluated the JPTI and IKAT. Furthermore, Siti Nurleily Marliana, S.Si., Ph.D. explained why the journal could be rejected by Scopus even though the journals were superior in quality, namely because the consistency of scientific articles was lacking, substandard English, and low citation levels. Another reason for the refusal of a journal by Scopus is the lack of representation of the country of origin of the editor and the author, the name of the journal does not reflect the quality of research, unclear editorial policies, non-informative website appearance, inconsistent and inconclusive guidelines Through this assistance, it is expected that the two journals will immediately improve the quality based on the companion grid, so that they can be submitted immediately to Scopus.