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.
Gay was forced to resign due to allegations of plagiarism & how she dealt with supposed antisemitism, but process has been labelled a witch hunt by many.
Within a week of its November 2022 launch, this AI-based tool had over 1 mn users. Months on, students discover how either the data is old or process too lengthy to depend upon.
With the chatbot quickly gaining popularity among students in India, academics are worried about the tool ‘killing creativity’ while cybersecurity analysts call for better regulatory norms.
UGC notice says it will soon issue set of parameters to evaluate instances of self-plagiarism. It had earlier made research ethics and plagiarism mandatory part of students’ coursework.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
I know Dr. Ashok Pandey. He was a paper King. I think he has over 1500 publications. But according to me he was not an exta ordinary scientist but with high skills in P.R.O jobs. Earlier also he was named for plagmerism. But unfortunately in India no body want listen truth. Falsehood and favourism works.
Do you know what’s the biggest loss from such scams to the country? It’s brain drain or even worse, students interested in research will be forced to give up on taking up a career in research. The bigger issue, which this article is silent about is that, most of such research crime is actually endorsed by the academic institution managements & local political groups.
Elsevier and Springer are publishing companies, not journals
I know Dr. Ashok Pandey. He was a paper King. I think he has over 1500 publications. But according to me he was not an exta ordinary scientist but with high skills in P.R.O jobs. Earlier also he was named for plagmerism. But unfortunately in India no body want listen truth. Falsehood and favourism works.
Do you know what’s the biggest loss from such scams to the country? It’s brain drain or even worse, students interested in research will be forced to give up on taking up a career in research. The bigger issue, which this article is silent about is that, most of such research crime is actually endorsed by the academic institution managements & local political groups.