Planned Activities

Author

Rizqy Amelia Zein

Published

13/07/2025

Modified

14/07/2025

Some activities that we are planning to do in the future including:

Writing a Research Data Management Plan document so that researchers are informed about the best practice of data sharing.
Organizing public discussions, workshops, drop-in sessions and webinars that are related to the theme of replication, reproducibility and #OpenScience.
Strengthening our networking with similar communities in Indonesia and beyond.

Past Activities

So far, we have managed to organize several activities:

Organizing invited talks/public discussion

In collaboration with Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Airlangga, we organized:

[23/04/2019] An invited talk by Prof. Michael Inzlicht (University of Toronto) “Replication Crisis in Social Psychology: A personal, first person account”. Slides can be downloaded here.
[09/05/2019] An invited talk by Dr Sandersan Onie (University of New South Wales) titled “Introduction to Bayesian Statistics for Psychological Research”. Slides can be downloaded here.
[10/05/2019] An invited talk by Dr Rebecca Willen from Institute of Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE) titled “Open Scientific Practice in Psychological Research”. Slides can be downloaded here.
[09/05/2019] A Intro to R Workshop by Dr Sandersan Onie (University of New South Wales). Slides can be downloaded here.

In collaboration with Jurnal Administrasi Kesehatan Indonesia (JAKI), we organised a public discussion on #OpenScience with Dr Dasapta Erwin Irawan (Institut Teknologi Bandung) as an invited speaker. Slides can be downloaded here (pdf) (pptx).

Organizing webinars

We also routinely organize webinars discussing about advancing research quality and improving research skills. There are below our upcoming webinars. If you are interested in learning how to sign up/join in a webinar, please check our page here (in Bahasa Indonesia).

Past webinars

In collaboration with INA-Rxiv and Sains Terbuka MOOC (Wibisana), we organised Publication Bias Webinar with Dr Mathew Ling from Deakin University & Australian and New Zealand Open Research Network (ANZORN). All materials are accessible here.

Click here for more information of nation-wide science webinar

Scientific and popular articles

Our team members wrote various scientific articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and popular articles published by various media outlets, such as the following:

[16/11/2018] Rizqy Amelia Zein wrote “Efek kobra, dosen Indonesia terobsesi pada indeks Scopus dan praktik tercela menuju universitas kelas dunia” published by The Conversation Indonesia.
[04/11/2019] Rizqy Amelia Zein was interviewed for the article “Tiga hal yang bisa dilakukan komunitas akademik untuk mencegah peneliti ‘nakal’” (English version: “Three things the scientific community can do to filter sketchy research”) published in The Conversation Indonesia.
[11/11/2019] Rizqy Amelia Zein was interviewed for the article “RIN sebagai bank data ilmiah pertama Indonesia perkuat budaya ‘sains terbuka’” (English version: “Indonesia’s first scientific data bank is a step towards strengthening ‘open data’ practices”) published in The Conversation Indonesia.
[03/11/2020] Rizqy Amelia Zein wrote an article titled “India’s plan to pay journal subscription fees for all its citizens may end up making science harder to access” together with Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Juneman Abraham, and Sridhar Gutam.
[28/01/2025] Rizqy Amelia Zein and Ilham Akhsanu Ridlo published an article titled “Open Access in Indonesia,” full citation: Irawan, D. E., Abraham, J., Zein, R. A., Ridlo, I. A., & Aribowo, E. K. (2021). Open access in Indonesia. Development and Change, 52(3), 651-660.
[05/04/2021] Rizqy Amelia Zein wrote an article “Open science can help accelerate – and protect – high-quality research in low-income countries” at the invitation of The Conversation France (French version: “Comment la science ouverte peut favoriser la recherche de qualité dans les pays à faible revenu”).
[03/01/2023] Ilham Akhsanu Ridlo was interviewed in the news article “Skripsi, tesis, dan disertasi terkunci di repositori universitas: minimnya akses karya ilmiah mahasiswa hambat iklim riset di Indonesia” published by The Conversation Indonesia.
[06/05/2023] Rizqy Amelia Zein wrote the chapter “Metodologi Penelitian dalam Psikologi Politik,” published in the book “Psikologi Politik.” In this chapter, she discusses several strategies that researchers can apply to ensure openness and transparency in conducting research. A preprint of the book chapter is available here.
[01/09/2023] Ilham Akhsanu Ridlo published an article titled “Comments on ‘Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia’ by Fry et al. (2023),” full citation: Irawan, D. E., Abraham, J., Ridlo, I. A., Nugraha, H. D., Wekke, I. S., Fuad, A., … & Seftyono, C. (2023). Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al.(2023). Research Policy, 52(7), 104817.
[13/05/2024] Ilham Akhsanu Ridlo wrote “Perguruan Tinggi: Berhentilah Terobsesi pada Konsultan Pemeringkatan” published by Kompas.id.
[May 15, 2025] Rizqy Amelia Zein wrote an article titled “Mengenal cara kerja ‘paper mill’: pabrik artikel ilmiah yang beroperasi seperti kartel di film-film” published in The Conversation Indonesia (English version: “Paper mills: the ‘cartel-like’ companies behind fraudulent scientific journals”) and received the award “ Education and Culture Editor’s Choice.”
[09/02/2025] Ilham Akhsanu Ridlo wrote “Kejar indeksasi demi gengsi: Salah kaprah penilaian kualitas riset dan evaluasi kinerja penelitian” published by The Conversation Indonesia.
[02/07/2025] Ilham Akhsanu Ridlo wrote “Akses jurnal ilmiah perlu dipermudah untuk bentuk ekosistem pengetahuan nasional” published by The Conversation Indonesia.

Active participation in a conference/public discussion/invited talks

Our members are also actively involved of several public discussions/talks, including:

[25/04/2019] Rizqy Amelia Zein was invited by Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada to give a talk as one of the panelists at 5th Public Health Symposium. Slides can be downloaded here and the codes are available here.
[19/07/2019] Rizqy Amelia Zein delivered an invited talk about Self-Archiving in a workshop, which was organised by Jurnal Administrasi Kesehatan Indonesia (JAKI). She also gave the same talk in a Writing Masterclass organised by The Conversation Indonesia, which was taken place at Faculty of Psychology Universitas Airlangga (23/07/2019). Slides are available here and codes can be accessed here. The talk was in Bahasa Indonesia.