The recognition by Nature has come just three years after Dr. Achal Agrawal began raising awareness about and reporting on research-integrity violations by Indian researchers through the Indian Research Watch (IRW), a volunteer-run non-profit organisation he founded in November 2022
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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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Expenses to run the research integrity office is well worth it, feels Dr. Shashidhara as the price the institution will pay in case of research misconduct will be huge in terms of future funding, recruitment and overall reputation
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Science did not retract the paper in 2012 because there was no deliberate fraud or misconduct on the part of the authors. But Science’s standards for retracting papers have since expanded. If a paper’s reported experiments do not support its key conclusions, even if no fraud or manipulation occurred, a retraction is considered appropriate
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In August 2018, former IIT Dhanbad Director had said that scientific misconduct by Prashant Kumar Sharma and Rashmi Madhuri appears serious and may attract major penalty. In April 2021, Prashant Sharma was promoted as Associate Professor
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To begin with, the penalty this year to institutions for retractions will be mild, which will become harsh next year
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At least 25 papers of a Chennai-based researcher have been retracted in recent months.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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In January-February this year, Neurosurgical Review, a Springer Nature journal, retracted 129 Commentaries. Of them, 87 Commentaries are by the Chennai-based Saveetha Institute
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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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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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