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Monday, August 3, 2026
TopicAcademic journals

Topic: academic journals

Two India-Pakistan surgeons built a medical journal. It’s become an ugly separation battle now

Dr Yogesh Sarin and Dr Bilal Mirza co-founded the Journal of Neonatal Surgery. Now it is delisted, demands hefty fees, and faces accusations of predatory publishing.

UGC halts CARE reference list of journals for ‘greater academic freedom’. What it means for academia

Introduced in 2018, UGC-CARE list aimed to recognise only reputable journals for faculty selections, promotions, and research funding.

India’s research crime is getting worse. Scientists are gaming peer review system

International watchdogs are flagging India as a top producer of ‘low-quality and fraudulent’ research. Last year, India ranked behind only China and the US.

Indian researchers paid $17mn to publish in open access journals in 2020

Researchers from IIM Ahmedabad, IMU Kolkata & Berhampur University behind study also emphasised need for development of national open access repository for Indian researchers.

Indian PhDs, professors are paying to publish in real-sounding, fake journals. It’s a racket

Editors of lesser-known Scopus-indexed journals offer to publish papers for Rs 5,000. And for the right price, ghost writers will write an entire research paper for a ‘client’.

Using AI, Web of Science has delisted 50 prominent academic journals. What this means for researchers

Among those delisted by the research database is MDPI’s International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2nd-largest in world in terms of articles published per year.

Want to know how the world ends? German journal on ‘apocalyptic studies’ says it has some answers

The inaugural volume of 'Apocalyptica' journal by University of Heidelberg includes a preface on the 'archaeologies of apocalypse', 6 research articles and a review of books.

2004 research paper of ICMR’s Nivedita Gupta retracted for alleged image manipulation 

Mycopathologia retracted it this month after a Dutch scientist claimed that Gupta’s figures showed unexplained duplications. The ICMR scientist has called the decision unfair. 

JSTOR’s paywall is still alive, but it’s trying to score brownie points during a pandemic

To show solidarity during the coronavirus crisis, JSTOR has announced free access to over 6,000 books and 150 journals. Great news, right? Except it’s not.

On Camera

The thrill of ‘down low’ wears off fast. Why do gay men even fall for it?

Being DL is not the same as being closeted, though there’s some overlap. A closeted man knows he is queer, but a DL one does his best to not acknowledge the Grindr logo on his phone.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

Defence think tanks need autonomy & funds, shouldn’t have to look for external support—Gen Anil Chauhan

Speaking at ThePrint Off The Cuff, the former CDS also advocated civilian involvement in India's military education system.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.