Determining an algorithm as the researcher’s contribution: An alternative to performance-based research honorarium

Abstract

Abstract The research grant is carried out with a quality assurance cycle that involves the research group to produce the research outcomes such as publication, books, or other intellectual property. However, there are problems regarding the distribution of honorariums from the rest of the budget so that they are fair according to the contributions of each researcher. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to establish the algorithm to produce the fairness index of honorarium distribution based on the researchers’ contribution. The index was built on the input, which is a manifestation of research quality assurance cycle and implemented in pseudocode and flowchart. The results show that the simulation of three conditions with different contributions from each researcher was carried out with accurate results and reflected the performance-based research honorarium distribution. Thus, the algorithm can be used by researchers for the fairness of honorarium distribution.