(22 Jul 2025) A new research integrity risk index, which listed several of the country’s top universities as being at ‘high risk’ of systemic breaches of research integrity, has sparked a warning to universities from Indonesia’s Ministry of Higher Education and Science, calling on them to step up research integrity and improve research quality.
More than a dozen highly regarded universities in Indonesia have been listed as being ‘high risk’ for research integrity. Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR), Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU), Universitas Sebelas Maret, and Universitas Hasanuddin (UNHAS) are in the ‘Red Zone’ of the new Research Integrity Risk Index (RI²), released earlier this month by Professor Lokman Meho of the American University of Beirut.
RI² is the world’s first empirically grounded, composite metric designed to identify and profile institutional-level risks to research integrity. Described by Meho as “diagnostic in nature, not punitive”, the RI² rating of 1,500 global universities is based on their level of institutional risk in research integrity.
Institutions were evaluated based on the number of retracted articles per thousand publications, capturing evidence of serious methodological, ethical, or authorship violations, as well as the percentage of an institution’s publications appearing in journals that were recently removed from Scopus or Web of Science for failing to meet quality or publishing standards.
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