Communication through publication plays an important role in higher education. The purpose of this study was to determine the increase in the ability of scientific publications of lecturers through training activities and mentoring to lecturers in writing scientific papers. There are two achievements in this training, namely that the lecturer has the skills to write scientific articles and knowledge on how to check the originality of his scientific work (using the plagiarism checker application), which is included in the original category is less than 20% detected plagiarism. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. This activity was carried out at the Deli Husada Health Institute, Indonesia. The target audience in this activity is the permanent lecturers of the foundation who have served at least one year and have sufficient ability in the ICT field. The result is that this activity shows satisfactory success when compared to the expected performance plan that is 60% of participants? activities. The conclusion is that the assistance activities in writing scientific papers of lecturers can significantly improve the ability of lecturers to produce scientific work that can be published.

communication; publications; lecturers