Conditions Surrounding Publication Performance of Faculty Members of Two Selected Higher Education Institutions in Eastern Visayas
CONDITIONS SURROUNDING PUBLICATION PERFORMANCE OF FACULTY MEMBERS OF TWO SELECTED HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN EASTERN VISAYAS
Niño Antonio Perante Villalino
INTRODUCTION
The quality of research outputs disseminated by researchers is one of the factors that affect a country’s development (Lacanilao, 2009). As Kearney (2009) stated, the scientific knowledge generated should be placed at the service of development by applying it in real situations. Therefore, a research process should not end up to the gathering and interpretation of data only; it should span until the publication of research results inasmuch as research is not meant to be kept. In the Philippines, however, only a small fraction of the research outputs are published as scientific papers (Lacanilao, 2009). In fact, the Philippines lags behind other countries in the Southeast Asia in terms of research publication. According to Bagarinao (n.d., as cited by Lacanilao, 2009), in 1980, Philippines lagged behind Thailand and Malaysia but ahead of Indonesia and Vietnam in the number of research publication. However, Indonesia overtook the Philippines in the mid 1990s; Vietnam did so in the mid 2000s.
In Region 8, there has been a wide difference in the number of articles in journals and publications indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and Scopus among faculty of State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in the last five years. Based on the data from the Commission on Higher Education-Zonal Research Center (CHED-ZRC), the number of publications in peer-reviewed journals rose from 34 in 2006 to 41 in 2007. It dropped to 38 in 2008, then to 24 and 20 in 2009 and 2010, respectively. This low publication performance among faculty members of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the country is the reason why only three universities made it to the 2010 Top 200 Asian Universities (Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd, 2010).
In the Philippine context, there is still a sketchy
Niño Antonio Perante Villalino
INTRODUCTION
The quality of research outputs disseminated by researchers is one of the factors that affect a country’s development (Lacanilao, 2009). As Kearney (2009) stated, the scientific knowledge generated should be placed at the service of development by applying it in real situations. Therefore, a research process should not end up to the gathering and interpretation of data only; it should span until the publication of research results inasmuch as research is not meant to be kept. In the Philippines, however, only a small fraction of the research outputs are published as scientific papers (Lacanilao, 2009). In fact, the Philippines lags behind other countries in the Southeast Asia in terms of research publication. According to Bagarinao (n.d., as cited by Lacanilao, 2009), in 1980, Philippines lagged behind Thailand and Malaysia but ahead of Indonesia and Vietnam in the number of research publication. However, Indonesia overtook the Philippines in the mid 1990s; Vietnam did so in the mid 2000s.
In Region 8, there has been a wide difference in the number of articles in journals and publications indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and Scopus among faculty of State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in the last five years. Based on the data from the Commission on Higher Education-Zonal Research Center (CHED-ZRC), the number of publications in peer-reviewed journals rose from 34 in 2006 to 41 in 2007. It dropped to 38 in 2008, then to 24 and 20 in 2009 and 2010, respectively. This low publication performance among faculty members of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the country is the reason why only three universities made it to the 2010 Top 200 Asian Universities (Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd, 2010).
In the Philippine context, there is still a sketchy
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