The Research and Publication Departments of Colegio de San Juan de Letran Manila and Bataan had organized a webinar on research integrity, themed Research Integrity during Pandemic: Presentation and Publication Guidelines, last May 21, 2021, 9:00 AM - 12:00 NN, via Zoom.
The resource speaker of the said webinar is Dr. Elmer Bondoc, Ph.D., RN, the Director of Holy Angel University’s Research Office, and a Professor in the School of Nursing and Allied Medical Sciences in the same university.
Dr. Bondoc had underlined the importance of ethics and integrity in all phases of the research—from conceptualization to presentation and publication. He also stressed the importance of a robust peer review of all research papers in publication to elevate the research culture in the Philippines. Furthermore, he had presented the mechanism that predatory journals and conferences do to erode the scholarly merit of the research industry. Towards the end of the webinar, Dr. Bondoc had discussed how authorships work in journal publications towards the conclusion that integrity should be the cornerstone of any research and academic endeavor, both abroad and on the national scene.
The webinar garnered almost a hundred participants from Letran Manila, Letran Bataan, Letran Manaoag, Schools Division Office of DepEd Meycauayan, Our Lady of Fatima University, PUP San Pedro Campus, Tagum Longford College, DepEd Rizal, Batangas State University, PDRRMO Palawan, Philippine College of Health and Sciences, Inc., and even international participants from Pakistan.