EduRank.org utilizes “the world's largest
scholarly papers database with 115,295,786 scientific publications and
2,964,008,315 citations to rank universities.”
Ergo: Any university can EduRank high via its
scientific publications and citations. Ergo: Any university has to priorly be Very
Good to Excellent in dealing with its technical publications – both in editing
and publishing. Ergo: Any university has to produce Excellent Editors – those
who are from Very Good to Outstanding in editing and publishing electronically!
Ergo: They need to master desktop publishing – (my favorite is Microsoft Word).
But most of all,
most if not all technical papers published in the UP universe contain limited
technical literature because their authors do
not read enough of Internet-available
related literature!
Now, one
important almost-neglected aspect of the UP System’s technical publications
universe is difficulty in transforming manuscripts into the printable document
format (pdf). (I can do a pdf with one click!)
All of the above
comprise The Editor In Chief’s universe and, unfortunately, there is no
constitutent UP Academy of Technical Publications
that researchers can turn to handle their research reports on paper and
transform each into a printable one along the way.
There is of course
the question of the quality of editing of those technical papers on any subject.
To improve the quality and speed of editing of UP System journals, I advise the
UP System to hire editors with expertise in software.
Why not be
inspired by me? I prefer Microsoft Word
as it has desktop publishing (DTP) features. I know MS Word like the palm of my
hand –working with it since at least 1988!
My most proud
achievement as TEIC is as a one-man band bringing the Philippine Journal of Crop Science (PJCS) of the Crop Science Society of the Philippines
(CSSP) from obscurity to the prominence of international level referred to as
“ISI” (now “Web of Knowledge”)! Thank you, CSSP!
I know most UP
System technical publications are non-ISI – why can’t the ISI ones be among the
world’s top? Nope, not good enough. Wake up, UP!@517
The UP System is nowhere there. This Editor In Chief
(TEIC), an alumnus of UPLB, knows that UP people lack expertise
in desktop publishing – using MS Word: (1) reading to improve the manuscript in content
and grammar repeatedly – this TEIC tells you once is not enough! (2)
finalizing & submitting to to TEIC of the journal, (3) up to and including
its desktop publishing process via the TEIC. Frequency and more so quality of (painstaking)
editing are (unseen) necessary ingredients of science publications.
Any member of The UP System could be #1 in the
Philippines and #1 in Asia – but only if the editorial staff have mastered the desktop
publishing process. This is The Editor In
Chief telling UP best!@517
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