Nature is one of the top-notch interdisciplinary science journals available today. It publishes peer-reviewed research on the basis of its “originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance, and surprising conclusions”. With an impact factor of 36.101, it is currently one of the most highly cited science journals. With the launching of Nature Publishing Index...
Several years ago, we reviewed the scientific publication performance of the Philippines and some of its neighboring countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Using the Science Citation Index Expanded, we looked at the number of publications coming from these countries between 1980 and 2006. See Box 1. Our findings showed that Malaysia and...
As part of an expansion to the QS World University Rankings, the QS Asian University Rankings was first published in 2009. It ranks Asia’s top universities based on academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, papers per faculty, and citations per paper, among others. This year marks its third year and the rankings are now out....
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease that’s becoming an increasing problem in tropical and subtropical regions. It is an infection that causes a severe influenza-like illness, and sometimes a deadly complication called dengue haemorrhagic fever. Some of the symptoms of dengue include sudden onset of high fever which may last 2 to 7...
Recently, there has been a growing interest in finding alternative forms of energy. This is mostly driven by increasing prices of oil, concerns over greenhouse gases emission from fossil fuels, and some form of government subsidies. One of the alternatives which has been gaining much public and scientific attention is biofuel, a type of...
Several years ago, I wondered if someone in the Philippines was also working on the same research topic as I was. Incidentally, I had access to ISI’s Web of Knowledge database at my workplace. So I tried to search for papers on my topic which had been published by researchers from the Philippines.
To understand better the possible effects of climate change in the Philippines, it is critical to collect, record, collate and analyze all data and information with possible links to climate change so that appropriate scenario-building and extrapolations can occur. The Philippines, being an archipelago and a developing country, is highly vulnerable to the adverse...
With the reproductive health bill currently under consideration in Congress, issues regarding population and family planning has recently received heightened media coverage. In a recent paper entitled “News framing of population and family planning issues via syntactic network analysis” appearing in the International Journal of Modern Physics C, Legara and colleagues, all researchers from...
In a new paper entitled, “Microstructural defects associated with enhanced magnetic flux pinning in YBCO/DyBCO/YBCO multilayered thin films,” researchers Katherine Develos-Bagarinao and Hirofumi Yamasaki of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), based in Tsukuba, Japan, analyzed the unique microstructure of multilayered superconducting thin films. The films, having an architecture of...
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