The Blockchain Technology's Adoption by Research and Manuscript Publication in Higher Education : Conceptual Model

The adoption of blockchain technology has penetrated almost all sectors, including the education sector, especially higher education. Regardless of the pros and cons of adopting blockchain technology, the application of blockchain has the potential to provide benefits to higher education. Some previous research describes the adoption of blockchain technology in higher education to maintain the authenticity of diplomas, build symbiotic relationships with industry, and others; this research proposes the adoption of blockchain technology for research and publication in higher education. The high level of research and publication plagiarism is one of the main problems that initiated this research. Thus, the aim of this research is to help higher education improve research and publication supervision using blockchain technology. The literature review method is used to support this research. The proposed model is built from the conventional mechanism for distributing research results and publications in higher education and then combined with the basic principles of blockchain technology. Research also uses literature reviews to study articles about previous research and publications to strengthen the novelty of models developed because of this research. The results of this research are in qualitative form, namely a conceptual model regarding blockchain adoption in higher education publications. At the end of the results and discussion, a table is presented with examples of data using blockchain for the publication of manuscripts.