How does Philippines fair with other countries in terms of science and research?
Please have your answer associated to station of Philippines with alternative countries in conditions of research. Kindly clear your answer as well as have it elaborate.
This article is about the problem with citation in science journals and how that has harmed the credibility of Philippine research. If discoveries cannot be published in acceptable form, that puts a country behind.
Most of Philippine research publications are clear indications of wrong research practice, and they do not count in international rating of research performance when ranking nations, universities, or individuals; nor do they help in national progress. They are seen in the Reference Section of books, training manuals, bibliographies, extension publications, and review articles. In “Bibliography of Philippine marine invertebrates” (1994), for example, only 7 percent of the 1032 references listed is ISI-indexed or valid publication. In “Bibliography of Philippine seaweeds” (1990), only 8 percent of the 780 listed references is such publication. And in “Biology of milkfish” (1991), only 19 percent of the 298 cited literature is valid publication. Since there are now over 200 such articles on milkfish, the book is overdue for revision.
Using Science Citation Index Expanded, Katherine Bagarinao reviewed the publication performance (number of indexed articles) of five ASEAN countries from 1980 to 2006. She has shown with graphs that Thailand and Malaysia were ahead of the Philippines from 1980 (Fig. 3A), but the Philippines was ahead of Indonesia and Vietnam. The Philippines, however, was overtaken by Indonesia in the mid 1990s and by Vietnam in mid 2000s in number of publications (Fig. 3B). The Philippines is not only behind in publications, but it has also shown the slowest growth rate among the five countries throughout the covered period.
From 1980, only Malaysia was ahead of the Philippines (Its continued lead may be explained by its being an oil country). Then Thailand followed and surpassed the Philippines in 1992 and has been moving faster since. Although Indonesia and Vietnam are still behind the Philippines, the trend of their HDI growth rates has been increasing faster and, as shown by their growth curves and that of the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam are headed to overtake the Philippines in a few years. Note that Indonesia and Vietnam had left us behind in science in mid 1990s and mid 2000s (Fig. 3B).
Further, UNDP’s Human Development Reports show a nation’s development compared with those of other countries — ranking. Among 177 countries and territories, the Philippines’ ranking has been going down in the last 10 years. In 1997 and 1998, the Philippines ranked 77, but this dropped to 83-85 in 2000-2004, and to 102 in 2006.
As the director Peter Meyer of graduate studies in physics at Princeton says, "You need to know how to do research properly before you can begin to think about commercializing discoveries." http://www.philippinestoday.net/index.php?module=article&view=1679 (see rest of this link)
Related travel vacation:
- How does Philippines fair with other countries in terms of science and research? Please have your answer associated to station of Philippines with alternative countries in conditions of research. Kindly clear your answer...
- How does Philippines fair with other countries in terms of science and research? Please have your answer associated to station of Philippines with alternative countries in conditions of research. Kindly clear your answer...
- Where in the philippines i can find basil plant? Im you do a investigate offer about this plant. we need to know if Basil plants grow in a Philippines...
- Where in the philippines i can find basil plant? Im you do a investigate offer about this plant. we need to know if Basil plants grow in a Philippines...
- What is the condition of Austria in terms of politics, social conditions and economics? I am a tyro in Economics Class as well as We have a single week for this project. We were...
If you like this blog please take a second and subscribe to my rss feedTags: Philippines
Comments: 2 comments
All the notebook fields that are marked with REQ must be filled when searched for
Ted H
August 1st, 2009 at 2:25 am
This article is about the problem with citation in science journals and how that has harmed the credibility of Philippine research. If discoveries cannot be published in acceptable form, that puts a country behind.
Most of Philippine research publications are clear indications of wrong research practice, and they do not count in international rating of research performance when ranking nations, universities, or individuals; nor do they help in national progress. They are seen in the Reference Section of books, training manuals, bibliographies, extension publications, and review articles. In “Bibliography of Philippine marine invertebrates” (1994), for example, only 7 percent of the 1032 references listed is ISI-indexed or valid publication. In “Bibliography of Philippine seaweeds” (1990), only 8 percent of the 780 listed references is such publication. And in “Biology of milkfish” (1991), only 19 percent of the 298 cited literature is valid publication. Since there are now over 200 such articles on milkfish, the book is overdue for revision.
Using Science Citation Index Expanded, Katherine Bagarinao reviewed the publication performance (number of indexed articles) of five ASEAN countries from 1980 to 2006. She has shown with graphs that Thailand and Malaysia were ahead of the Philippines from 1980 (Fig. 3A), but the Philippines was ahead of Indonesia and Vietnam. The Philippines, however, was overtaken by Indonesia in the mid 1990s and by Vietnam in mid 2000s in number of publications (Fig. 3B). The Philippines is not only behind in publications, but it has also shown the slowest growth rate among the five countries throughout the covered period.
From 1980, only Malaysia was ahead of the Philippines (Its continued lead may be explained by its being an oil country). Then Thailand followed and surpassed the Philippines in 1992 and has been moving faster since. Although Indonesia and Vietnam are still behind the Philippines, the trend of their HDI growth rates has been increasing faster and, as shown by their growth curves and that of the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam are headed to overtake the Philippines in a few years. Note that Indonesia and Vietnam had left us behind in science in mid 1990s and mid 2000s (Fig. 3B).
Further, UNDP’s Human Development Reports show a nation’s development compared with those of other countries — ranking. Among 177 countries and territories, the Philippines’ ranking has been going down in the last 10 years. In 1997 and 1998, the Philippines ranked 77, but this dropped to 83-85 in 2000-2004, and to 102 in 2006.
As the director Peter Meyer of graduate studies in physics at Princeton says, "You need to know how to do research properly before you can begin to think about commercializing discoveries."
http://www.philippinestoday.net/index.php?module=article&view=1679 (see rest of this link)
Stephen S
August 1st, 2009 at 2:25 am
its not as good as most countries
Leave a reply