ABSTRAK
The existence of the obligation of having an article publication into reputable international journals leads to several challenges that must be faced. Students especially graduate students face various challengesin writing articles. This research involves chemistry students who have article publications in Scopus indexed journals and their supervisors. This study is aimed to explorethe challenges faced by chemistry graduate students in writing articles to be published in Scopus indexed journals. The study also features internal and external strategies to address these challenges. The data were analyzed qualitatively by narrative research. The challenges dealt by chemistry graduate students in writing an article published in Scopus-indexed journals are derived from the processes of article writing (finding topic, making an outline, organizing a paragraph, paraphrasing, avoiding plagiarism, revising, and proofreading), the elements of article writing (title, abstract, introduction, result, and discussion), and the other aspects of article writing (finding and keeping information, choosing where to publish, finding fund assist, promoting confidence and time management, obtaining data, and submitting problem). The overcoming strategies by chemistry graduate students in writing an article published in Scopus-indexed journals are derived from internal (using creativity, reading more reference articles, adjusting the outline, using google translate, adjusting the scientific vocabularies, taking notes, converting word order, using free plagiarism-checker, adopting article pattern, monitoring revision progress, having discussion session, reading a draft thoroughly, understanding article's chapter pattern, searching from numerous journal publisher, using Research-gate, using paid-articles opener website, using Elsevier journals finder, searching various research fund grants, having log-book, getting more English exposure, and adjusting journal publisher requirement) and external factors (initiating the research, holding the discussion, encouraging to read, giving articles, revising the outline, paragraph checking, using Turnitin, modifying the draft, revising by track-changes, using Grammarly, holding the discussion, encouraging to read, reading a draft thoroughly, providing reference articles, determining journal publisher, providing research fund, monitoring the progress, and motivating the participants). This research is expected to provide practical description of the challenges in article writing as well as practical ways to overcome these challenges.
Keywords : international publication, academic writing, challenges, overcoming strategies, chemistry graduate student.