How Indian PhDs, professors are paying to publish in real-sounding, fake journals

Social media platforms are providing a market place for a nexus of ghost writers, fixers and peer reviewers to get bogus research papers published in Scopus-indexed journals. Watch this video by ThePrint's Assistant Editor Mohana Basu to learn how the pressure to publish for PhDs and promotions has created an illegitimate industry in India.
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[@shivambajpayee5801]

Kudos to print team for active journalism

[@tula__]

Have you actually witnessed something like that? ‘Coz I haven’t.

[@arunshankars8398]

The root cause of this menace is the UGC's insistence that one needs a PhD to become a teacher in a college. People then pursue PhD only to satisfy this requirement. Bereft of any passion towards the subject, people write junk, useless papers and send them to tier 2, tier 3 conferences. They care only about the number of papers they can show on their CV, and not about the quality of their work. These people waste precious years of their lives, and end up becoming terrible, useless teachers. They then churn out similarly useless students, and this cycle continues.

[@alankritakaushal]

Wow😮

[@athought6147]

Right bro 👍

[@asprinama]

it’s not that simple mate. The expectations are that one publishes an x+1 amount of papers per year (put in that x any real number). With the load of teaching, admin, writing, one ends up writing over weekends. Also, one is judged against the highest achievers of the field who are the outlayers. Imagine you play football in a bottom of the league club but you are expected to produce like Messi. Thats somehow whats happening

[@IndraniRoy]

nailed it

[@fromhigherground4272]

To be fair, the is pandemic, it exists all over the world.

[@dsanjoy]

I kept my integrity intact, published only in internationally reputed journals, and the end result was that I was denied promotion even after meeting all the criteria. Authorities don't give a damn about quality, they need numbers.

[@aparnasrinivas5835]

I know the feeling....

[@Mumbaiwestbengal96]

Everytime

[@fernando-loula]

Even real "serious" research journals worldwide are no more than a tit for tat game for he most part.

[@chanakyasutra3419]

Here the discussion is not what you are topic is what country Academia is doing going fast to become visha guru in fake publishing

[@awaismushtaq5719]

Wish you had learnt it the easy way man

[@nirjharrajawat2222]

Thankfully someone is now talking about the quality part needed in education and so called PhD, well done The Print Team !

[@varunemani]

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE truely even the gods from the other realm cant touch the education system and it's elites not just in India (It's all a large Nexus and they understand each other don't worry), just forget it the world is what these elites dictate and we simply live in it because they allow us. Try making fre**kin Godzilla a circus monkey it's a far easier proposition dear journalists.. good luck. 🍷

[@yashsinghal1023]

Phd from every institute not equal.. iits do good reseaech

[@tula__]

@@yashsinghal1023 not entirely true. I have gotten a paper published during my Btech itself and we didn’t forge a word. All results were authentic. And nope, I don’t come from IIT background. I haven’t even heard of publishing papers via money means. I wonder who’s even doing this? 😅

[@yashsinghal1023]

@@tula__ exactly there are lot of legit paper publications... I was not trying to say exclusively iit people publish good reseaech

[@tula__]

@@yashsinghal1023 that’s my point. If IIT ain’t doing, tier 2, 3 colleges ain’t doing, then who.

[@os-vp1hv]

In india fake is the Hallmark of victory

[@arkapravasain5620]

This is because of opening too many engineering colleges and having too many graduates who don't have interest in subject. In US they have around 2500 Universities most of which are high quality and getting a degree is very difficult, In India there is 5000+ colleges. if you invest about 30-40 lakhs you can open your own Engineering school in building and get government 🤣permit to give degrees. This is the situation of our country.

[@elborrador333]

Speak for yourself. This is just what happens when there is low demand and high supply. Paper mills are very common in academia across the world.

[@Kim-ej2xm]

Actually, most of the teachers and professors don't have deep knowledge of concepts and they only have procedural knowledge in math and they are not evaluated well but have been given degrees to hide the reality of Education. They can only solve those questions which they already solved or some variants of those questions they can only solve. Teachers in turn do not evaluate students well in order to hide their weakness in the subjects.

[@Kim-ej2xm]

Even all politicians like Shashi Tharoor, and jaishankar know it but they only talk about it but never do anything to improve.

[@bruhaspati560]

Just because a research is paid doesn't mean it's fake there could be time constraints as well As scopus requires min 6 months process and paid does it in 1 month

[@bhenkateshpadhan]

A much needed topic to discuss in media.....As a researcher what I felt is that those who have either good connection with scientific faculty or have good amount of money can only publish......those who can't afford them there no chance of publishing.....

[@sauron2000000]

Si.

[@chaitraa4750]

This is why you need to train kids how to research and write from a young age. If the kids themselves know how to do it, they won’t need to circumvent the right process. Also, make it a process to write the papers in their own mother tongue. Make the paid translation legal.

[@amitkumarpatel8206]

Mother tongue mein likh to denge , pr padega kon stupid ....Mother tongue waale ?

[@amitkumarpatel8206]

@Zen Lord I am 100% sure you never read a single research paper ... Lord name but senseless statement

[@amulyamishra5745]

​@@amitkumarpatel8206 Did you read the full comment idiot?

[@ps4gamer195]

Has nothing to do with teaching kids. Boomers were equally corrupt too (if not more).

[@chaitraa4750]

@@amitkumarpatel8206 you did read the part about getting it translated, right? Do you want think some scientist in Germany would have written papers in English?

[@arjunpratap915]

I am a budding researcher in the finance area and this story is very relevant from academic standpoint. Kindly publish more related stories for keeping the academic community abreast of the evolving situation.

[@mukulmisra4278]

You concluded the problem perfectly. Even UGC messed up it. In 2012 a committee constituted by UGC released a list of approved journals which was filled with bogus journals after couple of years they released modified list of approved journals in which the number of dubious joulnals was reduced but still a lot of such journals were in this new list. It clearly shows the academic dishonesty or to some extent forgery at the highest level of academia in India. Further, three different categories of journals were created to overcome the problem. Its a matter of serious investigation as this process helped in awarding fake PhD degree to thousands and appointment/ promotion to many non eligibles. Moreover, recently very high grade by NAAC to few state University in UP appears a sham considering the real research outcome of these Universities. If properly investigated, it can be one of the biggest scam namely Academia Gate of India

[@grapeshott]

What does "bogus" journal mean?

[@fretzT_T]

@@grapeshott not of quality in a sense. Think of a teacher who is bad at teaching or got in this line through political power. 0 knowledge/experiences of field, just bluffing.

[@fretzT_T]

@@grapeshott similarly bogus journals are those that are filled with trash research papers (Plagiarized, paper on oversaturated field with no new information etc. )

[@Dopaaamine27]

​@@grapeshottjournals that publish low quality content. Much of them are even without peer review.

[@DrRohanDasgupta]

The UGC Care list(s) of journals are updated every now and then. A journal that was in the list last month, may not be in the list now. It's crazy.

[@lgr28]

I am currently a scholar at a reputable central university and I have every reason to publish in a bogus UGC Care journal to keep my fellowship. My university requires me to publish a paper within two to three years to convert my JRF to SRF. The reality is that in my area of study only the most driven people are able to achieve that kind of thing within two years if they aim to publish in a legit Web of Science or Scopus indexed journal. People need to realize that PhD scholars need to go through their coursework, comprehensive exams and Proposal seminars within the first two years of PhD. Not everyone can manage to write a quality paper within this period and even if they do, the average period from submission to publication in an actually good journal is anywhere from 6 months to 1-2 years. Not to mention the inevitable rejections you might have to face during the process. So if I want to keep my fellowship past three years, I will obviously have to publish in sub par journals and waste my time, money and energy. Add to it the fact that literally no one seems to care about the quality of publications when it comes to hiring or promotions. So why should one waste time over things like academic integrity in this country?

[@mdhar7825]

Whatever you are saying is correct, no doubt. The mental exhaustmemt that one scholar goes through during the journey is unexplainable, but some ethics should be there, isn't it? Yes, it takes time to publish papers, but three years is not a small time period. During course work and comprehensive exam, u can carry on with your literature survey. And talking about JRF and SRF, some are even publishing paper in sci indexed journal ( unpaid) with a fellowship of amount 8k only.

[@lgr28]

@@mdhar7825 No I am not saying that paying to publish should be the norm man. I am talking about how the rules in our country are structured in a way that makes hardwork absolutely meaningless. Not every niche area of study have quick publishing SCI journals and many scholars join institutions with no real knowledge of academic writing and most supervisors don't take the effort to teach them such things. I personally am blessed to have an understanding supervisor and I do believe that it's better to publish in a good journal and I want to do the same despite everything. But it is literally meaningless when you publish like that if you want to teach in a public institution in this country because even someone with a bogus publication gets the job. it makes you question your academic integrity

[@mdhar7825]

@Lilacs scholars with no knowledge of academics writings (I think the education system should be blamed here, not scholar), and supervisors with zero academic help and treating the scholar like their slave are very common in our system. Unfortunately, if we look at our country's research quality and standard, it is pathetic. Literally, we are producing garbage for the name sake of research. It should be like IITs, NITs , where only sci and scopus(some iits don't count scopus journals) indexed journals (unpaid) are considered for credit scores.

[@YuvarajDcivil]

Kudos to the print team for taking up this issue which is affecting the Indian research community and issues with scientific research.

[@firdos1069]

Thanks a ton for letting this issue out. This publish or perish attitude is sinking the research arena since decades. Not every research can be break through or completely astounding. In order to decorate every research as such ..... scientist, scholars resort to such tactics.

[@kapishkapoor11]

That's absolutely true, I am persuing my PhD in chemistry in UK, many Indian students now-a-days are coming with this try to get acceptance, in reality they don't even know the title of their own authored papers.

[@varunemani]

Lol, it's hopeless.. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE truely even the gods from the other realm cant touch the education system and it's elites not just in India (It's all a large Nexus and they understand each other don't worry), just forget it the world is what these elites dictate and we simply live in it because they allow us. Try making fre**kin Godzilla a circus monkey it's a far easier proposition dear journalists.. good luck. 🍷

[@aafaq97in]

I myself have worked with a few researchers from India and talked about this issue several times. This was one of the reason they left academia in India. The honest people, if don't keep churning out paper are forced either to move in industry or move abroad. Low stipends and low salary is also another factor.

[@yashsinghal1023]

Publish or persidh scheme is not exclusively in india to be fair. It's mostly same everywhere, in india it's more visible

[@aafaq97in]

@@yashsinghal1023 yes you are very right about this. It's present everywhere.

[@muthukumaranl]

Thank you so much to the team behind this thoroughly professional piece, rarely do i see such important yet perceivably 'not newsworthy' (from the commercial sense) issues covered by media in such detail. I am thoroughly impressed & just subbed to the Print....this needs to be widely viewed as its of national importance...i would say a matter of national security in today's knowledge societies. Once again awesome job guys!

[@InnocentNeuron]

Nothing can change - because there is ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY for top bosses! Jor se bolo - mera bharat mahan!

[@agnescraig2912]

Can't understand why educated Indians do not seem to address this issue. I always say "Mara Bharat mahan " Mayan on fakery corruption network criminals shams. Notice they gave Canadian names but the telephone numbers traced to India

[@samratmukherjee2574]

They also offer co-authorship in ELSEVIER paper. Scopus is also to be blamed. Sometimes, if it is asked to them directly whether one journal is indexed in Scopus or not ; they will say it is indexed, although it might be being investigated by the Scopus themselves.

[@Vader19k8]

I conpleted my paper in btech final year and got it approved after three years. By that time I had forgotten about it😅

[@madhurikudwalkar9655]

😂

[@sauron2000000]

You are legend

[@rayhans7887]

Tell me about it. My paper was rejected after 7 months. It felt like a fuck you after so many days

[@sauron2000000]

@@rayhans7887 Happens.

[@Live-hh6li]

Nowadays you can get it done in 48 hours that too @rs600

[@guineaadamastos1910]

Excellent research. Covers all aspects of the deeper problem. While such fraudulent practices are now common in India given the UGC pressure, ease of publication in discontinued journals and hacking of authentic sites, there is another issue that stands tall - almost negligible academic training in publication at universities/colleges. There are only a handful of universities across the country that train their pupils on academic publication and even fewer that highlight the importance of it in the long term. Hope this video carves a dent and leads to change.

[@Dopaaamine27]

Most universities are teach only and barely do any research.

[@ndahiya3730]

This video is solely made to advertise those agents. Didn't you realize?

[@SyD961]

Thank you for bringing this out. So tired of substandard Scopus journals charging 25k and watching idiot articles getting published.

[@nayanjee9765]

This has been running for quite a few years now. Thank you for bringing this up. A few hundred people tarnishes the entire Academic professionals.

[@edwinjoy3932]

The NET exam itself is outdated and don't have standard. No wonder why students are leaving this country. The ego, complex, unprofessionalism, favoritism is killing Indian academia.

[@afzolkarim6001]

Net exam is just like board 12th board exam.

[@studytime2570]

Kudos to You. God knows India needs this type of Investigative Journalism.

[@tegarachsendo9730]

I think the same case happened in most developing country. In my country (Indonesia), quantity matters most than quality. Here, one have to publish minimum one paper per semester, as well as teaching minimum 12 credits, and one community service in order to comply government regulation. That's why predatory journals are the viable exit route

[@sauron2000000]

Hey, do you know about a Water Resource Prof named Limantara?

[@aparnasrinivas5835]

In a atmosphere where kids are not failed ever, through school and in the bachelor's level, what do you expect? And every institution is held ransom by a handful of ill qualified people or in many instances just one person. In departments there is so much in fighting and petty jealousies that one wonders how India ever produces well rounded graduates. Every incident in all educational institutions is becoming highly politicized. One cannot expect miracles....

[@0xDEADD00D]

It is refreshing to see that the media is paying attention to such important issues. Awareness through such great journalism helps address glaring issues regarding research in India. Thanks Print

[@oundhakar]

Thanks for a great video. It is refreshing to see real journalism being done in India.

[@liamneels8197]

Great, well-researched video. Thank you so much for reporting on this!

[@narasimhasrinivas2599]

Really revealing coverage indeed! Very soon (if not already), no International body would recognise even a good scholar from India...

[@sandipandhar4611]

Great content. I too a PhD scholar of Computer Science and Engineering Department NIT DURGAPUR. I can too see such journals very often in different platforms (among which some are reputed journals).

[@RanjithVishnuvardhan]

Thank you for bringing out such a serious and concerning issue and backing it up with solid field research. Thank you team ThePrint.

[@AnilKumar-hr8yl]

Bravos!! I thought we never talk about these stuff other then politics. Job well done @ThePrint👏

[@ts-krishnan]

Good effort, Mohana and team! And keep in mind that Scopus and Impact Factors are not the holy grail of research. For instance, Scopus is published by Elsevier - a for-profit organization listed on the stock exchange and has commercial interests. Impact Factor is a metric which even the Nobel Prize winners have harshly criticized. There are many good journals across disciplines that are not indexed in Scopus. For example, Ephemera Journal in the social sciences is published by academicians in the UK. India has to stand up confidently and good academic journals that is tailored to the needs of Indian scholars. Unfortunately, this is less likely to happen. The so-called top institutions in India have failed to develop a good academic journal in their respective disciplines though there are a few exceptions as always. Countries such as Spain, Netherlands, etc. have academic journals that also publish in their vernacular language (mother tongue) with an English abstract. For instance, see the works by Bruno Latour. Will Indian academicians stand up confidently and develop academic journals tailored to the needs of our society? Perhaps, they could learn a thing or two from the corporate world :) The title of the video says Indian PhDs, professors. I understand that the investigation has been done in India. But this pay-for-publish schemes happens globally even in the North America, Europe, etc. Many big highly respected journals are also involved in the pay-for-publish schemes. Here's a very nice and legit marketplace: 123mi.ru/. They also list the prominent journals that have been a part of this.

[@arindambaisya]

Plagiarism is considered OK at vast majority of the universities except the most prestigious ones in India. While this is polar opposite in the Western universities, where vast majority frown on plagiarism.

[@goodsong_views]

C'mon that is complete BS, I did my PhD at an IIT and currently in the states doing a postdoc. Plagiarism is not considered OK in India, at least not in reputed research circles. Such blanket statements are BS.

[@arindambaisya]

@Goodsong Subscriptions You are correct. It's not so the case in elite universities but everywhere outside premier IITs and IISc, low tier IITs and most NITs, it's tolerated. I will edit my comment.

[@EldhoseJoseph]

U have to also consider that evaluation in Indian system is different than those in West. In India, u have to regurgitate direct answers and perhaps solve questions. In Western system, synthesis of an analytical answer is required. And there they use online mode to check plagiarism. In India, most of test r done in written format. Until it's Word to Word plagiarism, it won't be detected here. Blame the system, not the students.

[@aryman6589]

@@arindambaisya you’re right, but the list of prestigious universities is larger, and includes JNU/DU etc as well

[@aryman6589]

@Zen Lord I’m from the Delhi School of Economics, yes, and it ranks higher in the social sciences globally than most IITs and IISc do for various sciences.

[@nil1473]

👌👌Very sensible & relevant Journalism...hats off to team of PRINT👏👏🙏🙏👍👍

[@nikhilhembrom8952]

Thanks for print for keeping good journalism alive

[@pruthveshmandle4978]

This Great Work by The Print. We need to highlight such stories and bring them into limelight.

[@themoviestalk_uk07]

It's because of UGC guideline because of which faculties are pressurises to publish research paper every year. It should be clear that research and teaching both are different things, for research one's need fund, resources and time which is not possible with academic works...... but who cares... we have only two choice either publish(by hook or crook) or leave this field.

[@jperez7893]

this a problem world wide. india is in a good position to fix this problem by creating an institute composed of its top 10 or top 20 univerisities, colleges, and research institutions and funded by the government to accept submissions of papers for peer review. the papers must be submitted in LATEX format and in english and all papers should be available for free to the public like arxiv. india can become an arbiter and referee of the best scientific papers while promoting its free reach and quality research

[@SulthanKhan90]

The bitter truth I am fighting for since 2015, even a week before I made a webinar on this. kudos team much needed.

[@fugslayernominee1397]

This makes sense to why India ranks low in citation despite pumping out so many papers a year.

[@ardentindian8183]

Very very true… I have seen colleagues who never did any research publish several papers… this is the well known route for promotions in India…University higher officials too turn a blind eye…

[@abdullahr5030]

The quality of publications is judged by the number of patents commercialized. I remember about SAM PITRODA, the chairman of knowledge commission in India, how he used to go to USA to work and publish papers, patents. Why he could not do the same in India ? No infrastructure in India for doing research. I visited many govt institutions including NIN, Osmania university where I saw PhD scholars doing experiments on outdated equipment. The same goes on for medical colleges as well.

[@ambarishchatterjee9168]

This is great work! Everyone who knows, fears to talk about it...Thank you for this video!

[@bagochiful]

Thank you, The Print, for highlighting this issue!

[@indranuj38]

Brilliant piece kudos to The Print Team

[@suryarp]

I wish we had a "Pulitzer prize" in India; this piece truly deserves it!

[@baldevchaudhary4619]

Excellent work. Now the question is how to stop this problem. From your side you can take up the issue with the Government of India. We wholeheartedly support you. In fact, this present fraudulent practice bring bad name to Indian Academia.

[@suranjanabasu498]

Very informative. Keep up the good work.

[@sonya.healandhearty]

Great reporting. I've observed this during my masters course in Dental surgery where data was skewed to show 'positive correlation' and the hypothesis was desperately tried to be proved 'correct'. All just to get promotions and look good while going for interviews

[@daithunnarzari1259]

The saddest part for genuine researcher is that they are not recognized with a few genuine publication they published when applying for a position. Other candidates with plenty of research articles, published in predatory journals are being recognized and offered position in many colleges, universities. The problem is that many college, universities and institutions doesn't have mechanism to identify which publication is predatory, fake or bogus. The faculties in those institutions do published in such fake and clone journals. One can easily identify if you visit thier profile and CV. Thus also compel the genuine, hardworking and ethical researchers/candidates to dive into publishing more articles through illegal ways.

[@wer977]

Hi Mohana, This is Krishna. I am a PhD currently working at a science non-profit. Thank you for bringing up this important topic. Would love to help in any follow-up discussions. I also recommend covering some COPE guidelines, and you may also refer to the blog - Scholarly Kitchen and forensic researchers - Elizabeth Bik/ Retraction watch in your discussions.

[@me051977]

Excellent work on an issue of great importance and far reaching implications. In addition to its role in the performance evaluation of faculty, publications are also given an undue importance in the ranking of institutions as well. The institutions in turn forces thesis supervisors to have more and more publications. even M Tech students are forced to have publications in peer reviewed journals which is highly impractical considering the timeline. Publications were considered as an independent evaluation of a thesis work earlier. it is high time to have a relook at this assumption. It is also unfortunate that such poor quality publications available online will severely compromise the credibility of Indian researchers in future.

[@sab2795]

Excellent journalism! May your tribe thrive to expose such evils in society and eventually help save the honor of people working earnestly in their respective areas. Thank you print.

[@rammohandhara7902]

very relevant story ... very timely. good job. the article just scratched the surface.

[@manjulashanmugasundaram706]

Great Work Miss. Seriously. 👏👏👏

[@nishantmishra9679]

During my btech in iitd I was doing a research project and I find that many professors from some unknown University in India had published point to point copy of a research paper from IEEE in some local journal

[@ssahai04]

What did you do to claim your research following this discovery?

[@spg6651]

Degree Certificates can be purchased .. is really true --- grades can be purchased -- Today 95% in CBSE 12th standard is norm -- YOU ASK any one who wrote 12th grade exam -- says got 95% .. Complete collapse of value system .. High school student scolds teacher saying " My father can fire from school" . Integrity , honesty , sincerity and all very very old words to be kept in Museum like antique piece

[@debasishdas8186]

Excellent presentation, in fact, I concede with the information. This is reality.

[@SatyajitSinhaTOURISM]

It really takes a lot of effort, patience, and time to write an empirical paper of high-quality, which has practical implications and guidance for future researchers, but few syndicates in academia are just destroying the integrity. Research is a beautiful tool for knowledge creation....Once in my early days of Ph.D., I was also trapped by a syndicate, but that was last and first.....Now I have quite a good number of empirical papers in long established Scopus indexed journals and some of this papers took more than 2 and half years to go through the rigorous peer review process. My best wishes to the budding researchers, and keep in mind there is no shortcut to success.

[@KedarnathRavindranath]

Thanks to the print team for the important issue.

[@nikzcool07]

Thank you so much for doing this story!

[@mediahost2243]

Amazing report. The damage being done to genuine researchers is very harmful and hard to remove the stigma that comes with it. Systems need to be updated if India wants to grow.

[@anitublu]

Many cloned journals are also there. Generally, the original journals are in non-English languages (Scopus indexed) and a cloned journal website is created under the same name (even with the same ISSN). In these cloned journals, send the paper in the morning, they acknowledge in the afternoon, pay in the evening and your paper would be published before 10 pm (on the same day)

[@sandeepsingh-lp4mf]

Amazing report by the print. Requirements for publication should be judged by the impact factor not random publishing.

[@SayakSaha]

Thank you "The Print" for bringing this issue in front of public. Now the genuine scientific community should raise their voice against these fraudsters. This is not the case that nobody knows these issues. Most of the students, professors are aware about this fraudulent game. Even, they are investing money to get their paper published or to buy a position as an editor! (OMG!!!). Just think, what is happening in India. If it continues, I don't think that the future of Indian Research is going to be good.

[@Fukku737]

Thank you for the much needed journalism.

[@saltycat2299]

I was thinking of publishing a paper on using tumeric paste as thermal compound to increase CPU performance 🙂

[@SarthakBhatia]

and have fungus grow in your cpu...

[@saltycat2299]

​@@SarthakBhatiayeah with some luck we maybe even able to harvest the mycoprotien from that fungus and use that as an alternative food source

[@mohitanand1844]

@@saltycat2299 😂😂😂😂

[@kevinp9110]

have you tried cow dung?

[@subirkumar5782]

@@kevinp9110 🤣🤣

[@subramanyasaib5571]

This is bound to happen when there is no impetus of practical learning and to attempt to create interest towards research and getting to learn new things!! to aid these the unfortunate reality is that the engineering colleges grooming like mushrooms dont have any scope for learning and experimental learning, more or less the same case in many deemed universities and private institutions with out due dilegence which results in abysmal masters and post doctoral individuals coming up!! need some systemic overhaul in addition to set procedural guidelines along with clear mention of topics and quality methods to assess the contents put including efforts made to overcome plagiarism!! there also needs to thorough time bound peer reviews and conclusion at faster pace!!

[@elpsykongroo8308]

Great video...very enlightening

[@nishitraj.]

This is some good journalism ! Kudos

[@user-wn3cg3hc1e]

Kudos to print team for Investigative journalism

[@shailendrayadav3601]

This is one of the important issues needs to be point out for improving our acedemic community, more research and busting of these rackets is the call we must address now!

[@kedarbhide007]

Excellent journalism 👏👏👏

[@lakshmivaradarajan7477]

Excellent Journalism. Long awaited piece. Another topic could be money for jobs in academia. Everyone knows it but nobody speaks it. Upto 90% of professors are employed for cash and they are chosen over well-qualified and research-oriented candidates, for state and central government positions. Real candidates with the right aptitude and qualification have little to no worth while applying for most government jobs as professors.

[@Eps398]

Thank you for such a report.

[@venus8738]

Hahaha seriously, a PhD has become so easily available these days. This was most needed for people who are keen to do PhD but don't know about the publication. Kudos to the Print team. The fact that our Media House never discusses this issue is that they don't care about the quality of education.

[@phanindra40]

Publication is a business. They take email IDs from the university websites and keep shooting mails saying they will help in publication. In addition is there is free service also like you include my name i will include yours, you cite my papers i will cite yours.

[@sauron2000000]

Yes sir.

[@manojmification]

​@@sauron2000000as aa

[@MadeInAndhra-rk5mw]

Such wonderful coverage on the topic of Education and research.

[@ajoydebbarma1124]

Good coverage by The Print.

[@TheHonestChemist]

PhDs should have publishable results on their thesis not necessarily published. A candidate should be judged on his ability, skills, difficulty of the research field etc.

[@Roonlovesfish3874]

Exactly

[@vijeshkumarv9447]

True. Even scholars are encouraged.

[@shanthalembilisham8828]

Good story! Please do come out with these kinds of stories.

[@hrishikeshduwarah4631]

The best episode on academia in India.

[@sairamradhakrishna2150]

As many viewers supports such nice topics in The Print, the issue needs more exposure in public domine too. I was serious about my daughter to pursuing her career in Research. But, these frustating conditions & apathy by the Government to support scholers in all aspects, i had to withdraw & tell her to choose a career of her interest and some ethics & genuinity. Thanks to 'The Print' for bringing such great topics of concer to the public. High time Government pays attention to this problem.

[@drskmann]

Much needed duscussion. This is a very serious problem that Print has highlighted.

[@rigeshyogi]

Why am I not surprised? And, of course, there will be a troll crowd chest thumping about India's accomplishments in publications.

[@tobiramaezio202]

Excellent work! No one has addressed this yet.. kudos to you Print!

[@arjunrama6678]

Excellent work.

[@Reme873]

Very good way of presentation.

[@oneplus1090]

UGC abolished rules of minimum published papers before PhD submission long before.

[@lostinthebluecity]

Yes that's so true ... some one told me that it's so easy to get a PhD these days .. clear NET JRF .. you will get 30000 approx from govt monthly .. talk to the professor and give him half of this ( means 15000 ) every month and just relax and enjoy with rest 15000 .. he will manage everything... at that time I was like .. No this can't be true... thanks print..

[@EloraSelah]

Enjoy in 15000? Even beggars have better standards than Phds

[@satyanarayanayellapantula9931]

This has been happening forever. I can say this from 35 years of college teaching. The UGC is a relic-a sleeping behemoth.

[@shreyashdeshmukh1470]

I have seen PhD students with more than 100+ paper published. I bet he will not even remembered the title of the papers. Its quite normal scenario in Indian Universities.

[@beluga9596]

superb work done

[@PragyaTGupta]

I so agree with you that in this whole business of publication real research is also suspected besides a heart aching price for publication. One more point I would like to raise of language. While I know that to reach global researchers it is important to be English research paper but vernacular languages are been suppressed, donot get equal recognition like Chinese Spanish or French journals. I also have been waiting for past one year to get my two papers 😢

[@rajulchordia3391]

This is true for even reputed journals where slots are booked beforehand. This in itself brings down the chances of publication and hence such scams!

[@amrindergill7942]

I am soon going start my masters where I will need to publish one of my research thesis. So thanks to make aware of what is going on in this field. Will be very much careful about bogus articles.

[@udaysankar2011]

Finally someone talking about these paper mill scopus. 🙌

[@AshvinRajasekharan]

Good work..! 👍