The Importance and Impact of Citations

Menelito Mansueto, a young faculty member of the Philosophy Department of MSU-IIT, has achieved what a good researcher should and that is getting cited. He is at present the Most Cited in the Subfield Philosophy at MSU-IIT and ranks at number 29 in the Philippines. What is the importance of getting cited?

Being cited means that your body of work is recognized by your peers and other experts in your field or discipline. It also gives you credibility as someone who has knowledge of the topic or questions that define your area of expertise. You are helping shape the discussions in academia, so to speak.

Getting cited means that your work or your paper is creating an impact and influence. This means that you are contributing knowledge and novel ideas. Research can grow through the active exchange of ideas in scholarly journals. Whether it is a critical paper or one that supports your claim, you are still making an impact.

Citations reflect professional growth. While not an end in itself when it comes to research, getting cited means expanding horizons and helping policy and decision makers solve society's problems. This is apparent in the sciences where collaboration is crucial to developing new treatments. In the social sciences and philosophy, such fosters dialogue and intelligent debates.

Christopher Ryan Maboloc: An Intellectual Biography

By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Radical Democracy, and the Ethics of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. Dr. Maboloc was an ASAP - Yale Global Justice Fellow where he was mentored by the renowned philosopher Thomas Pogge. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, the author was trained in political party building and democratic governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Dr. Maboloc finished AB Philosophy, cum laude, at Ateneo de Davao University under a Yuchengco Foundation scholarship. He has a Masters in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Masters in Applied Ethics from Linköping University in Sweden and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He was the Erasmus Mundus (EM) Representativ...

Statement of the SES expressing its opposition to the proposal to remove Ethics in the GE Curriculum

We, members of the Board of Directors of the Social Ethics Society, express our strong opposition to the proposal to remove ethics in college. Such move is bereft of merit and is ignorant as to the value and purpose of the teaching of the course, which is thoroughly rooted in the integral and critical function of higher education. The proposal to transfer it to Senior High School deprives college students of the teaching of ethics as a professional course, which is crucial in their civic engagements and the pursuit of a democratic society that can only be grounded in responsible citizenship and critical thinking. The direction of Edcom and its advisers from the technical panels of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) reduces our whole education system into a mode of creating docile workers who will constitute the labor force that will serve the whims and interests of a capital intensive and consumer driven globalized neoliberal economic order. It only breeds our subser...

Statement of the SES BOD Chair

The Social Ethics Society was founded in 2010 by the late Dr. Romulo Bautista, a professor at Ateneo de Davao University who did his doctorate on Marx at the University of Madrid in Spain, and Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, then a young teacher at Ateneo de Davao. The first SES Conference was held at the University of Mindanao. Its original membership was only 15, consisting mainly of the masters students of the two founders. While in the peripheries of academia, the SES pursued its goals of helping teachers in Mindanao develop their craft in ways that is consistent with philosophy as an exercise of the human will and as the highest expression of the human intellect. When its proponents presented the concept, it was suggested that the Union of Philosophical Societies and Associations in the Philippines (USAPP) will lobby for a new bill that will professionalize philosophy in the country. That was in 2018. Top UST philosophy academics, upon the invitation of Peter Elicor, attended t...

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