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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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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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The paper published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents was withdrawn because of concerns about the ethical approval for the research.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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Rashmi Madhuri and Prashant Sharma of IIT Dhanbad have 15 and 19 papers respectively listed on Pubpeer website. These papers
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Rashmi Madhuri and Prashant Sharma, Assistant Professors at IIT Dhanbad, have so far collected over 24 retractions. And many
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IIT Dhanbad has completed its investigation into possible scientific misconduct by Dr. Rashmi Madhuri and Dr. Prashant Sharma. The scientific
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IT Dhanbad has already initiated an investigation into unethical practices by Dr. Rashmi Madhuri and Dr. Prashant Sharma. The investigation
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