Study Ranks Philrice Among Top Knowledge Hotspots

A study that recognizes “knowledge hotspots” in the Philippines and Indonesia, ranked the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) as the third most prolific rice research-producing institution in the two countries.

The article titled “Two decades of rice research in Indonesia and the Philippines: A systematic review and research agenda for the social sciences,” reviewed 2243 rice-related articles written by over 6,000 authors and published in more than 900 scientific journals.

Around 16 institutions contributed to the scholarly publications of Indonesia and the Philippines, with researchers attached to research organizations and universities majority contributing.

PhilRice is an agency under the Department of Agriculture, which contributed 122 papers on a variety of topics including rice production community development, alternate wetting-and-drying technology, hybrid rice, and rice worms,

The article mentioned that national scientist and former PhilRice consultant, Bienvenido Juliano is one of the most prolific authors with more than 10 published articles in the course of the covered period.

The “impressive local and global collaborations,” of Philrice aided in the agency’s push for rice research for the development agenda.

The paper “Effect of water-saving irrigation on rice yield and water use in typical lowland conditions in Asia,”  published in the Agricultural Water Management in 2004 garnered the most global citations. The authors of this article were from the Ministry of Water Resources (Beijing), DA-PhilRice, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wageningen University, and the International Rice Research Institute. Dr. Eduardo Jimmy P. Quilang, DA-PhilRice OIC director for research, is one of the authors.

Source: Business Mirror