One of the challenges of tertiary institutions at present is the progressiveness of lecturers' academic performance. Higher education institutions whose progress in academic performance will certainly show the quality level of the tertiary institution. This research presents the academic performance of lecturers in tertiary institutions. The aim of this study is to describe academic lecturers which based academic publish in google scholar. The research approach used is descriptive qualitative method because this study prioritizes verbal exposure. The data used is documentary based which is obtained from the google scholar database. Data analysis techniques use stages in a qualitative approach: identification, classification, and data analysis.
PreliminaryThe challenges of Indonesian universities today are government policy, campus autonomy, easy access, gender equality, quality-quantity, and internationalization (Logli, 2016; Soedjatminah, 2009;Knight, 2001). One of the things related to the quality of higher education is the progressiveness of the academic performance of lecturers. The progressiveness of lecturers' academic performance is a demand from various universities. The higher the academic performance of a tertiary institution, the better the academic performance of the tertiary institution. Conversely, the low progression of academic performance of lecturers will make higher academic performance of higher education institutions. The high and low academic performance will have an impact on (1) the number of prospective students who wish to apply to the tertiary institution; (2) number of graduate users; and (3) the image of tertiary institutions in the eyes of the community. The higher the progressiveness of the academic performance of a tertiary institution, the better the number of applicants, the number of graduates, and the image Logically, the more scientific publications a lecturer has, the higher the competence of the lecturer. However, it cannot be denied that in certain contexts this does not apply. In the context of the world of publication, there are the following character writers. First, writers who produce a lot of quality publications and works. Second, there are writers who produce a lot of work, but the quality of their writing is low. Third, there are writers who write with ordinary intensity, but quality. Fourth, there are writers who rarely write, but the quality of their writing is high, and lastly there are those who rarely write and their writing quality is also low.