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Posted on November 24, 2017November 28, 2017

Four papers from CSIR, ICAR labs retracted for fake peer reviews

The journal publisher Frontiers has retracted four papers from NIIST and CTCRI, which are Thiruvananthapuram-based CSIR and ICAR labs respectively, once it found evidence of fake peer reviews. Routine check on…

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Posted on January 25, 2017January 26, 2017

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…

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Posted on January 16, 2017January 23, 2017

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…

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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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