18 April 2025

“UP Diliman Leads UP System Universities In Latest EduRank Rankings,” UPD Says. “Why Not In Asia?” The Editor In Chief Asks

In EduRank 2025, UP Diliman Ranks #1 in the Philippines and #368 in Asia – Why not your UP Diliman or my UP Los Baños #1 In Asia?!! The reason – there’s much scholarly work left undone in editing & publishing!

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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