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Posted on October 5, 2019

Tenure track system at IITs is a recipe for failure

Flogging a small subset of young faculty to improve research and teaching metrics using the threat of tenure track while leaving the large majority of senior faculty completely unmonitored will…

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Posted on August 28, 2018August 30, 2018

Science communication: Hey directors, leave the researchers alone!

Even as DST is taking steps to promote science communication, researchers at certain government labs and academic institutions are prevented from communicating even their published work with the media without…

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Posted on January 1, 2017September 8, 2017

Science communication: ‘There is a huge price to pay when scientists remain in a cocoon’

Altmetric, a non-traditional alternative to impact-factor, measures the attention that research papers published in journals get from mainstream news outlets and social media. In 2016, Altmetric tracked over 17 million…

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Posted on December 15, 2016June 27, 2017

Researchers from Indian national institutes publish in predatory journals

India not only publishes the most number of predatory journals in the world but researchers based in India are one of the biggest contributors to such bogus journals; an earlier…

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