We are happy to introduce the second quarter journal issue (Volume 5 Number 2, April-June 2022). Eleven articles made a cut for this issue, exploring interesting topics on disaster risk, mental health, civic engagement, work-life balance and work values, community and pedagogy, reciprocal determinants of Mathematics performance, tourism impacts, Buddhist sermon competency framework, and lived experiences of Filipino guidance counselors.

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We open this new issue for the pandemic year 2022 with articles now indexed in Index Copernicus International in addition to our being indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Crossref, and Asean Citation Index (ACI). Being indexed in these international databases will guarantee more global visibility and accessibility and enhance the citation generation of all published articles in the Philippine Social Science Journal.

On that positive note, I am proud to introduce the first quarter journal issue (Volume 5 Number 1,  January-March 2022). Employing varied quantitative and qualitative approaches, 11 interesting papers explored various topics on politics, educational tourism, well-being, lived experiences of students at risk of dropping out in printed modular distance learning modality, teaching competence of pre-service teachers, learning science process skills, and Mathematics during the pandemic, digital transformation of the teaching and learning process, risk factors of pneumonia, valuation methods, and cooperatives’ perceived effectiveness in terms of financial and social performance.

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The Philippine Social Science Journal (PSSJ) of the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos is now accepted and indexed in Crossref. Crossref is one of the official DOI registration agencies of the International DOI Foundation. The DOIs they generate for journal articles make the latter “easy to find, cite, link and assess”. Read More Read more about PSSJ is now a Crossref-registered journal

The Philippine Social Science Journal is now an internationally indexed journal in DOAJ. With this good news, PSSJ is joining the caliber journals in the world. It will increase its visibility, impact, distribution, and usage.   The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. Today, this independent database contains over 15 000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Open access journals from all countries and in all languages are welcome to apply for inclusion.   DAJ is financially supported by many libraries, publishers, and other like-minded organizations. Supporting DOAJ demonstrates a firm commitment to open access and the infrastructure that supports it.     READ: https://doaj.org/ Read More Read more about PSSJ is now an international indexed journal