Philippines has fewest scientists in ASEAN – Stanford list

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has the fewest number of scientists among its ASEAN neighbors that made it to the 2024 “Top 2 percent” Scientists in the World drawn up by Stanford University in the US.

At least 66 scientists, and not just 26 that was earlier reported by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST PHL), actually made it to the list this year which include overseas-based and a few foreign but Philippine-based scientists.

The Stanford 2024 list presents 58 scientists from the Philippines plus eight overseas-based “corresponding” scientists listed by NAST PHL, which brings up the count to 66.

Scientists in the list told The STAR that 58 was already an improvement from last year’s 50 Filipino scientists that made it to the list.

However, the Philippines still fared poorly compared to its ASEAN neighbors Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore.

Malaysia has 769 scientists in the list; Thailand 392, Vietnam 201, Indonesia 150 and Singapore 1,258.

The world’s largest economies such as the US had 71,392; China 27,165, and Japan 5,608 scientists in the list.

“These individuals’ rankings are determined using the c-score metric created by John Ioannidis, a statistician at Stanford University,” NAST PHL explained.

Not in the NAST recognized list of 26 scientists but who made the world’s top 2 percent Scientists of the World were Ryan Michael Oducado of the West Visayas State University; Manuel Garcia of the Far Eastern University Institute of Technology; Jessie Barrot and Alexander Hernandez of the National University; Janet Alexis de los Santos of Visayas State University; John Ryan Dizon of the Bataan Peninsula State University; Sammy Militante of the University of Antique; and Francis Jesmar Montalbo of Batangas State University.

Also in the list were Mark Daniel de Luna, Michelle Regulacio and Michael Roleda of the University of the Philippines-Diliman, Carlito Tabelin of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology; Casper Boongaling Agaton and Menandro Acda of UP-Los Baños; Michael R. M. Abrigo of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies; Ardvin Kester Ong and Reggie Pantig of Mapua University; and Jose Eos Trinidad, Gianna Gayle Amul, Filomeno Aguilar, Veincent Christian Filipino Pepito, Greg Bankoff and Arianna Maever Amit of Ateneo de Manila University.

Additionally, Kainam Thomas Wong and Fides del Castillo of De La Salle University; Mario Philip Festin of UP College of Medicine; Brian Buckley, Jacqueline Deen, Jinky Leilanie Lu and Carl Abelardo Antonio of UP Manila; and Daniel Joseph Berdida of the University of Santo Tomas-Manila; J. Theo Kloprogge and Christopher Marlowe Caipang of the University of the Philippines-Visayas; Abdelbagi Ismail, Nese Sreenivasulu, B.A.M. Bouman, Reiner Wassman, Matty Demont, Amelia Henry, Kshirod K. Jena, Kazuki Saito, B.P. Mallikarjuna Swamy of the International Rice Research Institute and Gert Vriend of the Baco Institute for Protein Science also made it to the list.