Fwd: India is the Leader in Fake Journals and Publications
Dr. Chandar.TS PESIT ECE
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Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 4:37 PM
Subject: India is the Leader in Fake Journals and Publications
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Dear All,
Greetings
It is indeed a shameful distinction that India is already the world leader in fake journals and publishing. Here are some excerpts from the Hindu article (the full article is available
here). We at PES University must continue to ensure that we don't encourage or fall prey to this trend.
With thanks and best regards,
Kavi
The Hindu October 24, 2015
Fake journals: ‘Make in India’ gone wrong
42 per cent of fake single-journal publishers are based in India
A scam of the most scholarly kind on the Internet — publishing “scientific papers” in fake open access journals (also called as predatory journals) — has become more insidious and grown tremendously in size. And tragically, India has singularly contributed to the cancerous growth of pseudo-science.
“Open Access (OA) ‘predatory’ journals are now part of the scholarly communication landscape,” notes the University of Manchester Library.
From about 53,000 “papers” in 2012, the nearly 8,000 active predatory journals in the world have published a mind-numbing 4,20,000 “articles” in 2014. Over 11,000 fake open access journals were identified.
...Indian researchers publishing in predatory journals could be willing or ignorant participants. Either way, fake journals provide the best medium to publish sub-standard and even highly unethical work — plagiarised content with falsified and/or fabricated data and manipulated images.
The reasons
“The
introduction of academic performance indicator (API) by the University Grants
Commission (UGC), lack of clarity in identifying and evaluating journals, the
focus on ‘quantity’ over ‘quality’, unhealthy competition between peers, and
overall, a favourable non-scientific publishing environment have led Indian
researchers to publish in mediocre journals wherein most manuscripts are published
without any peer review.
PES University