The PUP Research Journals are strategically aligned with the University’s core academic specializations. As peer-reviewed publications, they facilitate rigorous scholarly exchange and foster meaningful research engagement within both local and international scientific communities. Collectively, these journals contribute substantially to the advancement of their respective disciplines—Philosophy, Social Sciences, Education, Labor Studies, Creative Works, and Science and Technology. Moreover, their open-access publication model ensures the equitable and unrestricted dissemination of knowledge, removing financial and structural barriers that limit academic reach and impact.
Journals
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Mabini Review
The Mabini Review Journal is an open-access university journal of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines administered by the Research Publications Office under the Office of the Vice President for Research, Extension, and Development. Beginning with its 2025 volumes, the journal adopts a biannual publication schedule and invites submissions from both local and international scholars. These submissions may include research articles, scholarly manuscripts, and book reviews representing a wide range of philosophical traditions and intellectual perspectives.
The journal particularly encourages works that engage with Filipino Philosophy, cultural studies in local and global contexts, Philippine studies, the humanities, political theory, social history, and allied fields. Manuscripts submitted for consideration are expected to demonstrate analytical depth, scholarly rigor, and coherent argumentation, while contributing meaningfully to ongoing philosophical and interdisciplinary discourse.
The goals of the publication are as follows: (1) maintain confidentiality in managing submitted manuscripts; (2) observe timely publication of the journal; (3) pursue unbiased double blind review system; and (4) ensure that editorial decisions are based on originality, relevance, and quality of a manuscript and its contribution to the body of knowledge in the disciplines that the journal seeks to cultivate.
Mabini Review is indexed and listed in the following:
- The Philosopher's Index
- EBSCO
- Google Scholar
- Crossref
- PhilPapers
- Scilit: Scientific & Scholarly Research Database
- Andrew Gonzales Philippine Citation Index
- Philippine E-Journals
- Philippine Institute for Development Studies- Socioeconomic Portal for the Philippines
- Commission on Higher Education (CHED) granted Mabini Review Journal Category B Accreditation through CHED resolution No. 146-2015.
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Social Sciences and Development Review
The Social Sciences and Development Review Journal (SSDR) is an open-access university journal of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), under the Research Publications Office of the Office of the Vice President for Research, Extension, and Development. Beginning with its 2025 issue, SSDR is published biannually and features peer-reviewed articles in the social sciences and development studies, preferably those focusing on the Asia-Pacific context. The journal promotes critical, multidisciplinary, and constructive discourses in the social sciences and allied disciplines. Articles that seek to synthesize normative fields such as religious studies, theology, or philosophy with the social sciences are likewise welcome.
Social Sciences and Development Review Journal aims to publish articles from a wide variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives to serve the interests of a wide range of thoughtful readers, students, and academic scholars of the social sciences and development such as sociologists, anthropologists, historians, economists, psychologists, political scientists, as well as social development and cooperative scholars. It also aims to publish special issues on important and urgent social concerns that affect the local and global society.
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PUP Journal of Science & Technology
The PUP Journal of Science and Technology (PUPJST) is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal published by the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. It publishes original and high-quality fundamental and applied research in Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and Advanced Engineering and Technologies. Anchored in the University's polytechnic orientation, PUPJST promotes scientific discovery, technological innovation, and practical applications that address contemporary scientific, environmental, industrial, and societal challenges. The journal welcomes contributions from researchers worldwide, with particular interest in research advancing scientific knowledge, sustainable development, and technological progress in the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and the global community.
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Entrada
Ang Entrada ay ang natatanging pampanitikang dyornal ng Politeknikong Unibersidad ng Pilipinas na inilalathala isang beses sa isang taon. Bukas ang Entrada sa anumang mga paksain at usapin. Nilalayon at tinatanganan ng Entrada ang pagpapasulpot ng mga akda at pananaliksik na may matalas na kamalayang panlipunan kasabay ng makabuluhan at masining na pamamaraan ng pag-aakda. Dumadaaan ang mga akdang isinumite sa masusing proseso ng double-blind peer review gayundin sa pagtatasa ng lupon ng mga editor nito na kinabibilangan ng mga respetadong iskolar at manunulat sa loob at labas ng bansa.
Entrada is the official literary journal of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, published once a year. It is open to a wide range of themes and issues. Entrada aims to foster and uphold works and research that demonstrate a sharp social consciousness, alongside meaningful and artistic modes of writing. All submitted works undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process, as well as evaluation by its editorial board, composed of respected scholars and writers from within and outside the country.
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BISIG
Ang BISIG ay bilingual na refereed journal na nagtatampok ng mga artikulo o papel pananaliksik hinggil sa kalagayan ng paggawa, anakpawis at kanilang mga pagawaan at komunidad. Ito ay taunang inilalabas ng PUP at pangunahing nagtatampok ng mga pag-aaral sa mga isyu at usaping iniluluwal ng relasyong pang-industriya at panlipunan. Karaniwang nakatuon ang mga paksa sa mga usapin tulad ng unyon at unyonismo, neoliberal na globalisasyon, kilusang manggagawa, kalagayan ng mga anakpawis at iba’t ibang saray nito, kalagayan ng mga industriya, at iba pang katulad. Maaaring ang paksa ay tumatawid o naghuhugpong sa mga disiplina tulad ng kasaysayan, sosyolohiya, politika, ekonomiya, sikolohiya, pagpapaunlad sa pamayanan at lipunan, wika, sining, kultura, kasarian, kababaihan, diaspora, agham, teknolohiya at iba pa tungo sa paglapit na multi/interdisiplinaryo. Tumatanggap din ng mga kontribusyon sa anyo ng rebyu ng aklat, komentaryo, transkrip ng talakayan, at mga akdang pampanitikan, basta nakatuon ito sa mga nabanggit na paksa.
Ang Bisig Journal ay naindeks at nakatala sa mga sumusunod na pambansa at pandaigdigang talaan at indeksasyong akademiko:
ProQuest
EBSCO
Crossref
Google Scholar
Philippine E-journals
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Scilit
BISIG is a bilingual refereed journal which features articles and research on workers, their working places and communities. This is published annually by PUP which primarily discusses issues born out of industrial and social relations. It highlights topics on unions and unionism, neoliberal globalization, workers movement, conditions of toiling masses, industry situations and the like. The topics can also tackle issues across disciplines like history, sociology, politics, economy, psychology, development of communities and society, language, arts, culture, gender, women, diaspora, science, technology and others towards multi and inter disciplinary correlation and discussion. The journal also welcomes contributions on book review, commentary, interview transcriptions, and literary pieces, provided that they conform with the prescribed topics.
Bisig Journal is indexed and listed in the following:
ProQuest
EBSCO
Crossref
Google Scholar
Philippine E-journals
Base
Scilit
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PUP Education Review (Formerly Education Review)
The PUP Education Review (EdRev, formerly Education Review) is one of the flagship journals of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. It is an open-access and a peer-refereed journal that provides researchers with a platform for research engagement in the local and international community. The annual publication of EdRev presents a substantial collection of emerging trends and issues in education for a better understanding of the educational landscape and the people working in it. EdRev does not charge article processing fees (APCs) to allow a wide range of knowledge sharing across the globe.
Print ISSN: 1908-8701
Online ISSN: 2546-0730
Email Address: edrev@pup.edu.ph
