Fake Science
Result: 1- 8 out of 14 Article found
New Panjab University V-C on editorial board of 2 predatory journals
When contacted, Kumar said: “It is always an honour to be on the editorial board of journals. If there is an issue with the journal’s credibility, I will step down immediately.
Prakash Javadekar orders clean-up, tells UGC, V-Cs to weed out all predatory journals
In a meeting Wednesday, Prakash Javadekar is learnt to have asked his officers to get all vice-chancellors of central, state and deemed universities to review their recommendations made to the higher education regulator for inclusion of journals on its list.
Govt responds to Express series: ‘Will end menace of predatory journals’
“We will end this menace of predatory journals,” Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said during Question Hour in Lok Sabha.
Fake science, part III: Behind locked doors, Mandsaur is home to research paper shops
An investigation by The Indian Express has revealed that the Mandsaur business revolves around over 100 journals covering science to management, a few names and many locked houses.
Fake Science, Part III: Energy cure, God university get prime space for money
The Indian Express accessed over 90 articles published by Trivedi and found similar claims in all. He also claims to have developed “Trivedi Water”, which is listed on Amazon but is “currently unavailable”.
The fake academia
Predatory journals in India highlight a milieu that discourages academia from developing a sound publishing ethic
Jeffrey Beall: ‘Predatory publishers threaten scientific integrity, are embarrassment to India’
Beall said that universities need to re-examine how they evaluate faculty and should not give credit for publications in fake journals.
SC Lakhotia, professor emeritus at BHU: ‘Universities, UGC responsible for relaxed attitude to predatory journals’
The universities and UGC are responsible for this relaxed attitude. The cycle of publishing and withdrawing lists of journals has obviously questioned the credibility of the exercise, says SC Lakhotia.
OMICS chief Srinubabu Gedela: ‘Our revenue from India is almost zero’
Srinubabu Gedela, CEO of Hyderabad-based OMICS, is under the scanner in the US where trade authorities have accused his company of making several fraudulent claims.
Fake Science: Face behind biggest of all — ‘40 countries, million articles’
Fake Science part-II: Srinubabu Gedela is the CEO of OMICS, labelled as one of the largest “predatory publishers” of research articles on topics in medicine, pharmaceuticals, engineering, technology and management for charges ranging from $149 to $1,819.
Fake Science: 1 journal to 1,500 in 10 years, Hyderabad is hub of pay & publish
Fake Science part-II: Most of these journals exist online and are operated by companies based across the city, including the posh Banjara Hills, but flaunt addresses from abroad on their websites, mostly in the US and UK.
Explained: How the pay-and-publish business works
The pressure to publish, and to present papers at conferences in order to collect the marks needed for recruitments/promotions often incentivises pay-to-publish practices.
V-Cs, AIIMS, IIT professors on list: ‘Students sent it, we don’t know’
Most of them figure in publications brought out by Hyderabad-based OMICS and Turkey-based WASET, which claim to organise research conferences across the world.
Inside India’s fake research paper shops: pay, publish, profit
Despite UGC blacklist, hundreds of ‘predatory journals’ thrive, cast shadow on quality of faculty and research nationwide.
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