The UPLB Journals Online is a web-based service exclusively offered to journals/ technical bulletins published by various units of the University of the Philippines Los Baños or by organizations affiliated with the university.

It aims to serve as the journals' repository, enabling wider dissemination and visibility online of these journals; and to provide journal editors with a convenient way of implementing the editorial process.
Depending on the journals' orientation, articles and review papers may either be full open access or limited. Text or PDF of an article's abstract may be provided, or excerpts of the full article may also be available depending on the journal's acccess policy.

The UPLB Journals Online is a project managed by Information Management and Technology Utilization Section of the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Extension of UPLB.

For inquiries, comments, and suggestions, please contact the OVCRE at +63 49 536 2354 or UPLB local VOIP 1503.

Journals

  • International Conference on Governance and Development

    The International Conference on Governance and Development (ICGD) is a biennial event hosted by CPAf that provides prospects for the international delegates to present and exchange innovative ideas, learnings, and experiences in fostering effective governance, handling public institutions, and achieving development objectives. It aims to establish a network of academics and practitioners and promote linkages and partnerships among them.

  • Makiling Review

    Makiling Review (ISSN 2980-4922) is an international bilingual refereed journal for the humanities of the Department of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Baños. Published twice a year, the journal seeks to promote critical and interdisciplinary scholarship in engagement with contemporary discourses and issues in the arts and humanities in the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and more broadly, the Global South. Submissions to the journal undergo double-blind peer review.

  • The Philippine Journal of Crop Science

    The Philippine Journal of Crop Science (PJCS, abbreviated as Philipp J Crop Sci) publishes original papers on all aspects of crop science and technology, be it in research, instruction, training or extension. Manuscript may be a research report, review, lecture, or policy statement. This reflects the perspective of its publisher, the Crop Science Society of the Philippines (CSSP), when it was founded in 1970 as expressed in the first divisions of CSSP: Crop Production and Management, Processing and Marketing, and Teaching and Extension, a similar outlook in the CSSP: Declaration of Faith. Since 2000, the journal is being co-published by the Federation of Crop Science Societies of the Philippines.

  • Ecosystems and Development Journal

    The ECOSYSTEMS & DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL (ISSN: 2012-3612) is a refereed international journal published semi-annually designed to fill the science-policy interface void in the Philippines and other tropical countries to help legislators, policy-makers, researchers, and natural ecosystems managers become better equipped, more relevant, and more effective. It publishes original research and policy development articles on sustainable development in tropical forest ecosystems and natural resources environment. The Journal serves as an outlet for insightful research, analysis, policy recommendations, and writing in the following fields: forest biodiversity; watersheds; protected areas; geology and soils; ecosystem services, functions, and benefits; wildlife conservation; habitat restoration; forest rehabilitation including agroforestry; plantation forestry; sustainable harvesting of forest products; biotechnology; geomatics; geohazards; climate change; ecotourism; human-nature interactions; forest economics, institutions, and governance.

  • Journal of Economics, Management and Agricultural Development

    The Journal of Economics, Management & Agricultural Development (JEMAD) is an open access peer-reviewed journal published bi-annually by the College of Economics and Management, University of the Philippines Los Baños (CEM-UPLB). JEMAD aspires to be the leading national and regional platform for knowledge generation and exchange in the broad areas of economic and agricultural development, agribusiness management, entrepreneurship, and cooperative development. 


    The published issues of JEMAD are available at their official website. 

  • Journal of Environmental Science and Management

    The Journal of Environmental Science and Management (JESAM) (ISSN 0119-1144) is Web of Science-indexed journal that is produced semi-annually by the University of the Philippines Los Ba˜ños (UPLB).


    It features research articles, theoretical/conceptual papers, discussion papers, book reviews, and theses abstracts on a wide range of environmental topics and issues.

  • Journal of Human Ecology

    The Journal of Human Ecology is a peer-reviewed journal publishes original researches focusing on the development of theory and practice in the Philippines and in the international setting as well. The Journal of Human Ecology aims to publish interdisciplinary researches on all aspects of human-environment interactions, community development, and other fields of social science that links with the people, organizations, and governments to achieve human-ecological security.

  • Journal of Public Affairs and Development

    The Journal of Public Affairs and Development is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal of the College of Public Affairs and Development, University of the Philippines Los Baños. It seeks to provide a forum to discuss topics such as food securiy, agricultural and social policy studies, rural institutions, local governance, community education, agrarian issues, and development pathways of communities in transition. The Journal caters to readers from a wide range of disciplines, including scientists, practitioners, administrators, policy-makers, and students in social sciences, natural sciences, and related fields.


    You may submit your journal article by sending an email at jpad.uplb@up.edu.ph. You may also access published articles at the following websites: JPAD Online and UPLB UKDR.

  • From the article of Leonisa A. Artes, Amparo M. Wagan, Michelle E. Omana, and Leonardo L. Tamisin, Jr. (2024), p. 196. The katmon (Dillenia philippinensis) flower has five fragrant white petals which are large, showy, and about 15 cm in diameter with reddish pistils and stamens. It is solitary and terminal. Flowers in full bloom may shed their petals on the same day or after, then the fruit starts to develop. {Photograph courtesy of Dr. Amparo M. Wagan, Agricultural Systems Institute, College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños.}

    The Philippine Agricultural Scientist

    Founded in January 1911 by the Student Body of the College of Agriculture of the University of the Philippines.


    The Philippine Agricultural Scientist (ISSN 0031-7454), an international journal of tropical agriculture and related sciences, is published quarterly by the College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños, 4031 College, Laguna, Philippines. Articles may be papers and notes on original fundamental or applied research and, to a limited extent, critical research reviews, professorial chair lectures or book reviews on tropical agricultural science and related areas including environmental science, food science, engineering, biotechnology, economics, extension, rural sociology, development communication, agroforestry and silviculture and marine and fishery sciences.

  • Philippine Agricultural Mechanization Journal


    The Philippine Agricultural Mechanization Journal (ISSN-0118-8275) is a technical non-refereed journal published bi-annually by the Agricultural Mechanization Development Program, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, College of Engineering and Agro-industrial Technology, University of the Philippines Los Ba˜nos. The journal aims to serve as a national venue for the dissemination of information on recent research and development in the field of agricultural mechanization, agricultural engineering and related fields.


  • Philippine Journal of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering


    The Philippine Journal of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering with ISSN-0119-7312, is published biannually by the Center for Agri-Fisheries and Biosystems Mechanization (BIOMECH), College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology (CEAT), University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB).


    Established in 1997, the PJABE is a double-blind refereed journal written in English language, which aims to serve as a venue for the dissemination of information on recent research, development, and extension (RDE) outputs in the field of agricultural and biosystems engineering (ABE).


  • PJB

    Philippine Journal of Biotechnology

    The Philippine Journal of Biotechnology (ISSN 0117-0903) is a national scientific publication devoted to the publication of original research papers and review articles in the fields of biotechnology, molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, applied biochemistry/ enyzymology, bioengineering and related fields. It also welcomes contributions on relevant news/ features and job placements.

  • Philippine Journal of Development Communication

    The Philippine Journal of Development Communication is a refereed biannual journal published by the University of the Philippines Los Baños College of Development Communication (UPLB-CDC).

  • Philippine Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

    The Philippine Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (PJVAS) is an open access journal dealing with both basic and applied researches as well as special topics in all species of animals, including companion, laboratory and farm animals and wildlife. It is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes full research works, short communications, case reports and review articles which advance the knowledge of animal and veterinary sciences and enhance the development of the livestock and poultry industry.

  • Philippine Journal of Veterinary Medicine

    The Philippine Journal of Veterinary Medicine (ISSN 0031-7705) is a peer-reviewed international journal of basic and applied research in veterinary medicine and science. It is published semi-annually, for the periods January-June and July-December each year, by the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of the Philippines Los Ba˜ños. This journal is Abstracted/Indexed by: Thomson Scientific Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded, Biological Abstracts, Focus on: Veterinary Science & Medicine, Zoological Record, CAB Abstracts, Index Veterinarius, Veterinary Bulletin, Parasitology Database, Helminthological Abstracts, Protozoological Abstracts, Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, SCOPUS & EMBASE, and UPLB Journals Online

  • Museum Publications in Natural History

    The MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY is a refereed scientific journal published by the Museum of Natural History (MNH), under the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension, University of the Philippines Los Ba˜nos (UPLB), 4031, College, Laguna, Philippines.


    The journal focuses on tropical biodiversity, especially in the Philippines, and its support sciences particularly systematics/taxonomy, ecology, evolution, and biogeography. In its online version, it provides immediate open access to articles that have been approved for publication. The print version is released once or twice a year, depending on the number of articles that have been already published online.

  • The Philippine Entomologist

    THE PHILIPPINE ENTOMOLOGIST (ISSN 00483753) is published semi-annually in April and October by The Philippine Association of Entomologists, Inc. c/o the Institute of Crop Science, (formerly Department of Entomology) College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines Los Ba˜nos, College, Laguna, 4031 PHILIPPINES.