The Palawan Scientist is an open-access, externally peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal without processing/publication fees. The Palawan Scientist aims to publish high-quality and original research in the fields of agriculture, fisheries and aquatic sciences, environment, education, engineering, mathematics, social sciences, linguistics, and related disciplines (including arts and humanities). Articles published in The Palawan Scientist journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This means that articles are freely available to download, save, reproduce, and transmit directly provided that the article is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. Moreover, published articles in this journal are indexed in Clarivate Analytics, ASEAN Citation Index, Crossref, EBSCO, Scilit, Philippine E-Journals, and both Google and Google Scholar. Articles are also stored on AquaDocs, and The Internet Archive.