Abstract

Public Research Organizations and universities are key players in research activities. In Indonesia, publication output of Public Research Organizations is lower than universities whereas they had balanced funding. The Indonesian government has been developing some strategies to improve research output in Indonesia by establishing national research policy and agenda, which encompass national focus research areas and provision of access to online journal databases. This article evaluates the effectiveness of these strategies by analyzing the productivity, trend, and references of PROs publications using bibliometrics and map visualization. The results revealed that Indonesian PROs productivity is low. Only 11% of Indonesian PROs had publications in reputed international journals. Physics was the dominant subject. There was a mismatch between research output and national research focus areas. There were still many research topics, which were determined as priority areas, but not many publications were produced in these areas such as research in transport and defense. The provision of journals strategy had not worked since 80% of the journals cited was unsubscribed. This study could be used to assess the effectiveness of research policy specifically for developing countries where the research budget is limited.

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