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Call to GC to Crack Down on Shady Journals
An academic watchdog has asked the University Grants Commission in India to crack down on "predatory journals" amid fresh allegations of plagiarism and the fabrication of fraudulent papers.
The Society for Scientific Values, which seeks to protect ethics in academia, has described as a "racket" the emergence of hundreds of predatory journals that, for a fee from scholars and teachers, publish poor-quality research without peer review.
The Society's appeal to the commission follows concerns that more than half the 3,300 academic papers from India published in predatory journals over six months in 2015-16 had come from faculty and scholars in government or private institutions.
Senior faculty members from two engineering colleges have claimed the predatory journal industry also allows vested interests to make false charges of plagiarism.
From The Telegraph India
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