THE JOURNEY OF JOURNAL ON MATHEMATICS EDUCATION: FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL

One of indicators to determine the quality of a journal can be observed from how many indexing institutions recognized it nationally and globally, such as Sinta, Scopus, and ScimagoJR. Furthermore, the rank of a journal in the indexing institution will add more value to the reputation of a journal. However, few journal editors are willing to share their experiences in managing a journal, from the beginning to getting recognition at the international level. Thus, this article describes the journey of the first journal in the mathematics education field from Indonesia called the Journal on Mathematics Education (JME), which is globally recognized and indexed on Scopus. JME's journey to gain global recognition is narrated in a structured way, starting from the history of journal formation, recognition at the local level, strategies to get authors from various countries, promotional activities to get credit, until finally getting a global position. In addition, this article also describes many contributions from world-class Mathematics Education researchers who have published their research results in JME. Finally, this article also describes the position of JME at national and international levels based on the data of several indexing institutes and JME's future targets.

of the Indonesian Mathematics Society (IndoMS) but also to lecturers, researchers, mathematics school teachers, teacher educators, and university students (Master and Doctoral) who wish to publish their research reports or literature review articles (exclusively for invited contributors), as well as brief communications about mathematics education and its implementation. Apart from regular contributors, each volume's contents will be contributed by invited experts in mathematics education from Indonesia and abroad.
The focus and scope of this journal include Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), Design/Development Research in Mathematics Education, PISA Task, Mathematics Ability, ICT in Mathematics Education, and Ethnomathematics (Zulkardi, 2019). Currently, JME is one of the top journals in Indonesia that Sinta or Science and Technology Index created and developed by The Ministry of Research and Technology /National Agency for Research and Innovation of Indonesia. JME has been indexed in the S1 category, Scopus in the Q1 category, and Scimagojr in the Q2 category.
However, this has, of course, gone through a journey which is not short and easy.  (Zulkardi, 2019). Universitas Sriwijaya collaborates with IndoMS in managing JME, where the core team, secretariat, and journal management processes are carried out at Universitas Sriwijaya.

The History of Journal on Mathematics Education
Not long after its launching, JME published a volume consisting of five articles. One article was authored by Professor Lee Peng Yee, expert mathematicians from the National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore. He wrote about designing a mathematics curriculum in Singapore (Yee, 2010). The other articles were authored by Professor Robert K Sembiring, a mathematician of Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). He wrote about the developments and challenges of implementing the Indonesian Realistic Mathematics Education (PMRI) approach in Indonesia (Sembiring, 2010). At that time, JME was still in the form of a local journal that had not been indexed by any indexing agency and was still using WordPress for its website system, which could still be accessed https://jims-b.org/, as shown in  In 2011, JME succeeded in becoming a national journal by the efforts and hard work of the team in building a better JME, expanding networking and trying to get a journal governance grant from the Ministry of Research and Higher Education (Kemenristekdikti). JME managed to publish two issues with a total of 15 articles, of which world-class researchers wrote three papers. An expert on Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), Professor Koeno Gravemeijer from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland, published his thoughts with the title How Concrete is Concrete? (Gravemeijer, 2011). Furthermore, Professor Kaye Stacey, the chairman of the Mathematics Expert Group for the OECD survey PISA from Melbourne University, Australia, wrote an article entitled The PISA View of Mathematical Literacy in Indonesia, which currently has the highest citations on Google Scholar as well as at Scopus (Stacey, 2011). Lastly, Professor Christa Kaune, a metacognitive expert from the Institut für Cognitive Mathematics, Universität Osnabrück, Germany, shared her idea by writing an article entitled Development of Metacognitive and Discursive Activities in Indonesian Maths Teaching (Kaune, Cohors-Fresenborg, & Nowinska, 2011). In addition, in this second volume, JME was fully supported by research outputs from the International Master Program on Mathematics Education (IMPoME), a collaboration between Sriwijaya University, Surabaya State University, and Utrecht University. Eleven of the fifteen articles published in the second year of JME publication came from the results of thesis research by IMPoME students from various regions in Indonesia related to design research methodology using the PMRI approach.
Over the next 3 years, the main contributors to JME would have been from IMPoME alumni with their results of their primary thesis research as many as 22 articles, students of the mathematics education doctoral program from the Indonesian Education University with their results of dissertation research as many as 5 articles, and invited authors who are Mathematics Education experts from around the world, including Berinderjeet Kaur from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, with her article entitled Mathematics Education in Singapore -An Insider's Perspective (Kaur, 2014) The JME team has been working hard to continuously improve and maintain the quality of its publications, one of which is 2014; JME successfully migrated by changing its website system from WordPress to the Open Journal System (OJS), seen in Figure 2. Furthermore, the JME OJS display has undergone a few changes to the current display, as shown in Figure 3. Every change that occurs on the website makes it easier for authors to complete the submission process and for readers to access every published article. The public can access it at https://ejournal.unsri.ac.id/index.php /jme/.

The First Recognition of Journal on Mathematics Education
In 2015, for the first time, JME was recognized at the national level. At that time, JME became the first mathematics education journal accredited by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education ( Figure 4).

Figure 4. JME's first National Accreditation Certificate by Kemenristekdikti
This achievement was remarkable because, it was challenging to get recognition from the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education in the form of accreditation in a journal. There were only two accreditation ratings for scientific journals in Indonesia, namely accreditation A and B, with a very rigid number of assessment indicators. Furthermore, in the same year, JME was also indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and by the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) from the United States. Not only satisfied with that, the team then focused on getting JME to be recognized globally by being indexed by the Scopus, by continuing to make guerrillas improve quality and expand JME promotions and networks both at home and abroad.

The Activities of JME's Team for Getting International Recognition
The JME team succeeded in promoting JME at significant events in the field of mathematics education, including at the 13th International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME) in Hamburg, Germany, the 17 th Konferensi Nasional Matematika (KNM) in Pekanbaru, and the 4 th South East Asian-Design Research (SEA-DR) at Universitas Negeri Padang, as shown in Figure 5. In addition, the team also succeeded in promoting JME to researchers from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, who were visiting Indonesia. As a result, great researchers from the university published their articles at JME. There are several researchers from Utrecht University who have published their research paper in JME, including Prof. Mieke Abels, Prof. Maarten Dolk, Prof. Frans van Galen, Prof.

The Recognition as A Reputable International Journal
Finally, in 2018, JME was successfully accepted for indexation by Scopus and succeeded in asking Scopus to inclusion all JME articles starting from when they were first published or beginning in 2010. Its achievements have come from the hard work and prayers of the entire JME's team, including contributions from the JME Editorial Board members, reviewers, authors, the leader of IndoMS, and Universitas Sriwijaya. In that year, the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education also awarded JME first rank accreditation (Sinta 1) to become one of the journals indexed by Scopus, as shown in Figure 7. Since its inception until 2018, JME has published two issues every year. However, since 2019, the JME's Team has made a policy to increase the number of publications to 3 issues per year with a total number of publications of about ten articles per issue to maintain the articles' quality. This policy was a recommendation of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education to consider several issues related to the addition of good and quality articles to be displayed in the international arena as part of the nation's competitiveness. Currently, JME is in Q1 based on CiteScore 2020 data on Scopus and Q2 based on SJR 2020 data on Scimago Journal and Country Rank, as shown in Figure 8.  Since JME was accepted for indexation by Scopus, the JME team tried to give a certain portion by publishing articles with the characteristics of international collaboration while maintaining the quality of the research produced in their articles. This is important to maintain the reputation and

Journal on Mathematics Education in National and International Level
JME's ranking among journals in Indonesia can be seen from the ranking order of journals on the SINTA Kemenristekdikti website (https://sinta.ristekbrin.go.id/journals), which is based on the Impact value in each journal. Figure 10 shows that JME ranks first out of a total of 5990 journals in the Sinta database in Indonesia with the highest impact value; the difference in impact values is quite significant compared to the journals listed after. The reputation and ranking of a journal at the Scopus indexing agency are determined by CiteScore data or the calculation of the 3-year average number of citations for the latest published articles divided by the number of documents in those three years in a journal. Based on these data, in 2021, JME is in the first quartile or Q1 with a CiteScore value of 4.3. This result puts JME in first place out of a total of 95 Indonesian journals indexed in the Scopus database, as shown in Figure 11. In addition, JME's CiteScore 2020 score put JME in second place of 35 Scopus indexed journals in Mathematics (General Mathematics or Mathematics (miscellaneous)) and Education. It indicated that JME is a journal in the field of Mathematics Education whom a Scopus indexes globally. The best 15 positions for Mathematics Education journals in the Scopus database based on CiteScore 2020 scores is provided in Figure 12. Furthermore, if we look at the journal data on the Scimago Journal and Country Rank website, JME is in the Q2 quartile, which is determined from the Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) score. Based on these data, JME ranked 3 rd out of a total of 95 Indonesian journals indexed at ScimagoJR, as shown in Figure 13. In addition, JME's SJR 2020 puts the in rank 11 th out of 35 journals indexed by ScimagoJR within the area of Mathematics (General Mathematics or Mathematics (miscellaneous)) and Education. It indicated that JME is a journal in the field of Mathematics Education whom a Scimago Journal Rank and Country. The complete data for the 15 best journals in the field of Mathematics Education according to the ScimagoJR version can be seen in Figure 14. Zimbabwe, as shown in Figure 15.
By 2021, the Journal on Mathematics Education is increasingly improving itself to publish quality articles written by world-class researchers by the focus and scope of JME and following trends in that and slow design derived from knowledge of mathematics and its support system in the learning process (de Lange, 2021). In addition, the distribution of authors since the beginning of 2021 has significantly varied with more than 15 countries (excluding Indonesia), as shown in Figure 16.

Final Remarks
The JME's team continues to strive for JME at the international level. They continue to improve the quality of articles published on JME. Furthermore, they maintain the integrity of conflicts of interest with the authors. They also continue to enhance the editing and display quality of articles and the JME website, making them more interesting to read. Lastly, they facilitate authors from Indonesian researchers to exist by maintaining the research quality and authoring excellent article at the international level.
In addition, JME's team are committed to maintaining the quality of all indicators provided by internationally reputable indexing institutions. JME needs to continue to the highest level in the reputable indexing institutions in future. To do so, it starts with increasing its number of citations each year, number of international collaboration and number of articles which potentially give big impact to scientific development of mathematics education in the world. Therefore, in the future, the target of being indexed by the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection, Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), which is one of the best indexing institutions globally, by 2025 can be achieved.