Jeffrey Beall

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‘Stop Congratulating Colleagues for Publishing in High Impact-Factor Journals’

Basic Research Community for Physics 25/11/2022

An extended excerpt from a report on 'parasite publishers'...

The University Grants Commission has adopted new rules against academic plagiarism. Credit: pixabay

UGC’s Anti-Plagiarism Rules Don’t Make Room for Realities of Indian Academia

Pushkar 06/09/2018

It is difficult to imagine that people in positions...

It is incorrect to call them 'predatory' journals because the term predatory suggests that there is a predator and a victim. Credit: nile/pixabay

‘Predatory’ Is a Misnomer in the Unholy Nexus Between Journals and Plagiarism

Rashmi Raniwala and Sudhir Raniwala 10/08/2018

In academia, the crime of plagiarism used to be...

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Infinite in All Directions: From Copernicus to Clockwork, the Role of Math in Completeness

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/04/2017

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

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Science Journals Sting Raises Troubling Questions About UGC’s Publication Rule for PhDs

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/03/2017

A number of predatory journals thrive in India, fed...