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Retraction leaderboard of India for the year 2024. It is important that the institutes investigate these cases and take action if misconduct is found. Inspired by world retraction leaderboard : retractionwatch.com/the-retraction… Raw Data : docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Scientific fraud is a growing problem. “You can’t just read an abstract and have any faith in it. I kind of assume everything’s wrong,” a scientist and journal editor told me. Read our deep dive for The Conversation U.S. theconversation.com/fake-papers-ar…

This is an important development in Indian Academia that needs much more discussion.

NAAC has been embroiled in controversies. Another case of massive corruption happening in NAAC Institute in question is KLEF. We had flagged it in the list of most retractions last year (KLEF was 10th in the list) : x.com/IRWatchdog/sta…

More details emerge... ALL universities with NAAC rating of A++ must be thoroughly investigated. Link to the article : newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-…

Around 20,000 scientists are publishing an "implausibly high" number of papers, according to a new analysis. My latest for C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News): cen.acs.org/policy/publish… Ludo Waltman, Simone Pilia

Exactly a year ago the ThePrintIndia published an article highlighting the work by India Research Watch (IRW) regarding the problematic state of research/publishing in India. However, has anything changed in the last year? Doubtful! #fraud is omnipresent. theprint.in/ground-reports…

Nearly 900 NAAC assessors have been removed for allegedly manipulating grades, exposing a deep-rooted corruption scandal that could shake the very foundation of India’s accreditation system. India Research Watch (IRW) Full report by Saumya Solanki: edexlive.com/news/2025/Feb/… #NAAC

I just published Oversight: integrity metrics for journals medium.com/p/oversight-in…

I try to keep blog posts short. Medium's stats show how this affects readership. Less words => more likely to be read. This is the longest blog post I've ever put out at >2k words. Somehow read rate is really high. Must try that again... clearskiesadam.medium.com/oversight-inte…

In 2019, researchers at Chandigarh University collectively published 362 studies. In 2023, that number shot up to 2,281 studies. Why? My latest for Chemistry World: chemistryworld.com/news/fourteen-… India Research Watch (IRW), Achal Agrawal, Dr Elizabeth Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social, Lokman I. Meho PrimeAsiaTV

#MiniReviewMill 33 #FakeReview #CoerciveCitation MDPI PLOS One Qeios Reviewers 🔹Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi Official 🇹🇷 🔹Anonymous 🔷3 virtually verbatim review reports➕1 with extensive coercive citation 🔷16 Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo‘s articles to be cited 🧵

#MiniReviewMill 34 #FakeReview Qeios PeerJ Publishing Reviewer Ankur Singh Bist Graphic Era Hill University (Official) 🇮🇳 2 verbatim review reports ➕2 similar review report 🧵

Many PhD scholars in India are first generation learners. They have not grown up seeing adults reading. Their relationship with text is only for studying/rote learning. This workshop will help PhD scholars discover the pleasure of reading. bit.ly/4jyvCZE

I have been blogging about fraudulent research at Yale by a "1000 talents" researcher: forbetterscience.com/2025/04/30/yal…

The legendary Abhijit Dey from PresidencyUniversity who once published 300 (!) papers in 1 year has published exactly 0 (!) papers in 2025 so far. He did get 8 retractions until now and just 1 a few days ago! But many more to come! #fraud sometimes just doesn't work out... 🤣😂

Eight companies are selling authorships of UK design registrations to academics in India in an attempt to exploit intellectual property to manipulate researchers’ academic standing. My latest for Chemistry World: chemistryworld.com/news/eight-com… India Research Watch (IRW)

32 Indian universities among most ‘at risk’ worldwide flagged up by new Research Integrity Risk Index, which identifies systemic #research irregularities, @Shuriahn reports India Research Watch (IRW) AUB Libraries American University of Beirut universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…