1. What factor should considered to determined of research topics and titles ?

Acording to sudigdo, the title of the research proposal requires requirements :

a. The title describes the entire content of the research plan.
b. The title is written in a simple phrase.
c. No acronym except the valid acronym

To determind of research topi, Researchers have developed an effective way to convey

the message of how to build a good research question, that is usually recalled under the
acronym of FINER (feasible, interesting, novel, ethical and relevant)

2. How to search and read a good journal ?

There are tip’s how to selected a good journal for academic research paper :

1. Reference list
• Look at the reference section of the papers you read from authentic journals
• You will find the papers published in best journals in your field cited over and over by many papers
• Pick 2/3 journals from those in reference lists which seem to suit with your research topic
2. Bibliometric analyses articles
• You will often find the list of top journals of your field in the published bibliometric analysis
articles by known researchers. See examples in psychology , design science , green supply chain
management , environmental science , seaport competition , international business .

3. Journal or publishers databases

Check if your selected journals are listed in:
• Thomson Reuters master journal list
• Norwegian Scientific Database
• Publish or Perish journal quality ranking
If your chosen journals are listed in any/all of the databases, it must a good journal with quality.

4. Target journals under reputed publishers

Journals under some reputed publishers are always good quality; maintain rigorous peer review
process and high standard. For instance: Elsevier, Nature, Emerald, Springer, Palgrave-Macmillan,
Taylor and Francis, Inderscience etc.

5. Other Criteria’s
• Look at journals in which the top researchers in your field are publishing!
• Look at Journal’s age! Journals aged 10 years or more are often good.
• Know the review time! Journals with very short review time (1-2 weeks) are often lousy. Although
there existing top quality journals with very short review time.
• You may use Elsevier’s journal finder tool to select a potential journal
(https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/)

We an use academic search engine like Google scholar, pubmed, ScienceDirect, clinical
key etc.
3. Apa saja sumber-sumber yag dapat digunakan untuk menentukan topic penelitian ?
Source of research topic :
1. Person experience
2. Practical experience
3. Critical appraisal of literature

When we critically study book and articles relating to the subject of our interest,
including research report, opinion articles, summaries of clinical issue, pertinent
question may arise in our mind. These may strike reader’s mind indirectly by
stimulating imagination and directly by stating what additional research is needed.

4. Previous research
5. Existing theories
6. Social issues
7. Brainstorming,
8. Conference