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How Much Research Do Philippine Universities Actually Publish? (2026)
Philippine research output has more than tripled since 2015, from 5,688 works in 2015 to 20,372 in 2024. Here are the figures, the institutional table, and the two…
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Where to Find Related Literature for a Philippine Thesis: 5 Databases Compared (2026)
Google Scholar is not where Philippine studies live. What Philippine E-Journals, HERDIN, your own institutional repository and OpenAlex each actually hold, with counts read from the platforms themselves,…
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Has Your Thesis Topic Already Been Studied in the Philippines? How to Count It (2026)
Only about one to two per cent of the world’s studies on a typical thesis topic come from Philippine institutions. Here are four worked counts, the query that…
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Google Forms vs Microsoft Forms vs Paper: Collecting Thesis Data in the Philippines (2026)
A free personal Microsoft account stops accepting responses at 200 — below almost any Philippine thesis sample. The three delivery options compared, plus what RA 10173 actually requires,…
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What Do You Do If Your Questionnaires Come Back Incomplete? (2026)
Set the discard rule before you look at the results, code the blanks rather than typing zeros, and expect your Chapter 4 tables to report different sample sizes.…
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What Do You Do If Your Thesis Data Is Not Normally Distributed? (2026)
A significant Shapiro-Wilk result is not a problem with your data — it is an instruction to switch tests. How to test normality, what the p-value means in…
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How to Analyse Your Thesis Data in SPSS, Step by Step (2026)
From a stack of accomplished questionnaires to the tables Chapter 4 needs: variable setup, Likert encoding, reverse-scored items, Cronbach’s alpha, weighted means, Pearson’s r and chi-square — with…
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Retracted Research Papers with Philippine Authors: The Only National Figures That Exist (2026)
There is no national dataset of plagiarism cases in Philippine universities. There is a retraction record: 132 papers with a Philippine-affiliated author, of which only 15 name plagiarism,…
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You Passed the Defense. Now You Have Two Weeks and a Corrections Sheet. (2026)
Passing is conditional until the corrections are in and the approval sheet is signed. How to triage a panel’s corrections list, the order that avoids re-breaking your own…
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Thesis Help Online in the Philippines: What You Can Legitimately Pay For (2026)
Transcription, statistical consulting, language editing and printing are ordinary paid services. Someone writing your chapters is not. The line, drawn against the ICMJE authorship criteria, and what to…