A Science and Technology Blog
If science journalists can report results discussed at conferences, why should preprints be off-limit, especially if reported responsibly? While peer-reviewed papers published in reputable journals give journalists a degree of…
Dr. Elisabeth Bik has a remarkable natural ability to identify both image duplication and image manipulation through visual screening. She along with others recently found questionable image duplications in 10%…
IIT Dhanbad has already initiated an investigation into unethical practices by Dr. Rashmi Madhuri and Dr. Prashant Sharma. The investigation will be completed shortly and the board will take a…
Following widespread criticism, the UGC has removed 4,305 journals that are either predatory or low quality. Another 191 journals are under scrutiny. Unwittingly, even the Lancet Public Health journal has…
Only 112 of the 1,009 randomly chosen university-recommended journals included in the UGC white list were found to be standard. The remaining 897 journals were found to dubious or predatory.…
The Hyderabad-based “predatory journal” publisher OMICS International’s venture to translate papers to a few Indian languages will not be restricted to OMICS and Pulsus Group of journals it owns. Plan…
The Academic Performance Indicators (API) system introduced by the UGC is singularly responsible for the sharp growth of predatory journals in India. The white list it introduced to stem the…
Starting centres employing thousands to translate into Indian languages the papers published in “predatory” journals is singularly aimed at gaining legitimacy for a fraudulent practice. Keeping the predatory journal industry in…
