If acceptance of a manuscript by a journal is a time for celebration for scientists, so is the acceptance of a cover image for artists. Four journal cover images in five years is a huge achievement for anyone, more so as Suhani is just 14 years old and is in class 9
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“Your full paper, we can publish by August 15. If you complete the payment [of Rs.23,000] today [August 6, 2025], formatting will be completed tomorrow and sent for publication,” the Chennai-based Academic Research and Development Association (ARDA) person messaged on WhatsApp. Phew!
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The number of retracted articles and papers commented for misconduct on PubPeer has been doubling every 3.3 years and 3.6 years, respectively, while papers produced by paper mills have been doubling every 1.5 years
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At least 25 papers of a Chennai-based researcher have been retracted in recent months. It will not be surprising if more papers of Dr. Joseph Raj Xavier of Saveetha University are retracted in the coming weeks and months as many of the papers listed on PubPeer have serious integrity issues
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If seven Indian universities were among the 17 that belonged to the red flag category initially, as per current data based on 1,500 most-publishing universities, the number of Indian universities in the red flag category has swelled to 32
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NIV should quickly make genome data available in a public database so that researchers in India and elsewhere can analyse
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NIV researchers prioritising paper publication over free and immediate access to genome sequence data and other vital information was once
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The paper published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents was withdrawn because of concerns about the ethical approval for the research.
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The editor and the publisher have decided that this article should be removed on public health grounds, the retraction notice
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Three years after the interim data were posted as a preprint, Bharat Biotech and ICMR are yet to publish any
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Papers of Ashok Pandey of CSIR-NIIST in Thiruvananthapuram and CSIR-IITR in Lucknow published in the journal Bioresources Technology, where he
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If the most glaring limitation of the study is the lack of a control group, the absence of data on
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Responding to the journal’s clarification for firing its Editor-in-Chief, Michael Eisen told The Hindu: “I disagree completely with their assessment of
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