Why India’s National Programme on panchagavya is worrying
Questionable work published in predatory journals is being showcased by the Department of AYUSH as evidence of the benefits of panchagavya! No, it is not bullshit. It is Panchagavya. “One…
Category: CSIR
CCMB develops a novel drug-delivery system for treating keratitis eye infection
Scientists at the Hyderabad-based CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB) have developed a novel drug-delivery system for treating fungal keratitis. Keratitis is the inflammation of the eye, which starts…
IGIB uses novel drug discovery approach to identify drug targets in TB bacteria
In a completely different approach to drug discovery, a team led by Dr. Samir K. Brahmachari at Delhi’s CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) has used a combination of…
Open Access: The sorry state of Indian repositories
India may not have a national Open Access policy in place, but the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), The Department of…
India’s white list to curb researchers from publishing in predatory journals
In a bid to tackle the growing menace of researchers publishing in predatory journals, the University Grants Commission notified on January 10 a list of journals in different disciplines where researcher…
India should show sustained commitment to science: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
In an hour-long interview, Nobel Laureate Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, who called the Indian Science Congress a “circus”, discussed the implications of some of the Indian…
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…
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…
