Responding to its role of improving the capability of human resource in the agriculture, aquatic and natural resources sectors, PCAARRD now grants incentives to researchers who have published their research findings in refereed and Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)-accredited journals.
A refereed journal is one that has undergone evaluation by one or more people of similar competence. It constitutes a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field.
The ISI, on the other hand, is an organization that maintains citation databases covering thousands of academic journals. This allows researchers to identify which articles have been cited most frequently, and who has cited them.
The database not only provides an objective measure of the academic impact of the papers indexed in it, but also increases their impact as it makes them more visible and provides them with a quality label.
The Council provides researchers with a cash incentive of P25,000/article published in approved local refereed journals.
Local referred journals include the Phil. Agricultural Scientist, Phil. Journal of Crop Science, Phil. Journal of Science, Phil. Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Journal of Environmental Science and Management, Asian Fisheries Journal and Phil. Science Letters on-line Publications.
For ISI-listed journals, PCAARRD provides an incentive of P50,000/article; P60,000/article for Science Citation Index (SCI)-, Social Sciences Citation(SSCI)-indexed journals with an ISI impact factor below 2.0000; and P75,000 for SCI-, SSCI-indexed journals with an ISI impact factor of 2.0000 and above.
The impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a given period of time.
A researcher may be given incentives more than once, depending on the number of articles published.
The grant is open for researchers of on-going/completed PCAARRD- or Department of Science and Technology-funded/coordinated programs; recipients of PCAARRD and Accelerated Science and Technology Human Resource Development Program scholarship; a PCAARRD staff; and/or a member of the National Agriculture, Aquatic and Resources Research and Development Network.
Published articles should be aligned with PCAARRD’s Industry Strategic S&T Plans as evidenced by a certification from the concerned technical research division of PCAARRD, and should not have been previously granted incentives for publication as certified by the researchers’ head of agency.
Documentary requirements to be submitted to the Office of the PCAARRD Executive Director should include an endorsement by the agency head; accomplished application/information sheet; a copy of the article published in the journal (or the journal itself); and a certification from the head of the agency that the published article has not been previously granted incentives for publication.
The application for incentives should be submitted to PCAARRD within six months after publication and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.