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Posted on June 7, 2020July 11, 2020

‘Paper’ in predatory journal by health ministry claims COVID-19 in India will end by mid-September

A “paper” by two health ministry researchers claiming that COVID-19 in India will end by mid-September has been published in a predatory journal. The authors also have a conflict of…

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Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020

Lancet retracts letter on plight of nurses treating COVID-19 patients

The Lancet Global Health retracts a letter about the plight of nurses treating COVID-19 patients in Wuhan published on February 26. Can editors of peer-reviewed journals take a moral high-ground…

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Posted on January 11, 2020January 11, 2020

Investigation into papers with problematic images complete, report submitted: CSIR director-general 

An independent committee formed by CSIR in early June 2019 to investigate into image duplication and/or manipulation in published papers has submitted its report to CSIR Director-General Dr. Shekhar Mande.…

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Posted on December 16, 2019December 21, 2019

IISc professor has two papers retracted, three corrected for image issues

Two papers of Prof. Kithiganahalli N. Balaji from IISc have been retracted and three more have been corrected for issues with images, including duplication and undeclared gel splices. Two more…

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Posted on August 21, 2019August 21, 2019

Kashmir editorial: Hey IMA, Lancet has commented on other countries too

How could the Indian Medical Association with over 500,000 doctors, which is supposed to be reading the journal regularly, be blissfully unaware of what The Lancet has always stood for.…

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Posted on July 31, 2019August 1, 2019

ICMR-NICED scientist has 16 papers with duplicated, manipulated images

Dr. Mamta Chawla-Sarkar, a senior scientist at ICMR’s NICED has 16 papers listed on PubPeer for image duplication and/or manipulation. Six of these papers were published when she was a…

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Posted on July 20, 2019

Authorship in 73 journal papers from India up for sale

A Russian website has listed 344 papers accepted for publication by journals from different countries where authorship is available for a fee. There are 73 papers listed from journals based…

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Posted on July 16, 2019July 17, 2019

65 papers from India retracted for image falsification/fabrication, errors

Among papers retracted in chemistry and material sciences in 2017-2018, 17.2% was from India though only 7.3% papers from India were published, thus contributing to 2.4-fold difference between retractions and…

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