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We May Soon Find Out How Good Our PhDs Are

Pushkar 01/06/2019

A review of recent PhDs will be a useful...

Albert Einstein, post-truth, pseudoscience, Hindutva, pseudoscientific beliefs, research papers, predatory journals, plagiarism, research misconduct, theory of relativity, particle physics, Major General, President Ram Nath Kovind, Large Hadron Collider, University Grants Commission,

Poor Albert Einstein, His Wrong Theories and Post-Truths

Dinesh Srivastava 07/04/2019

Why do so many Indians have this overwhelming desire...

AWSAR, Department of Biotechnology, Department of Science and Technology, IIT-Madras, Jawaharlal Nehru University, National Council for Science and Technology Communication, NCSTC, plagiarism, science communication, science journalism, science writing, solid oxide fuel cells, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,

Govt Mission to Have Scientists Write About Science Starts on Successful Note

Manal Shakeel 08/03/2019

The hope is to encourage more scientists to communicate...

Nature journal, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistan, Lahore, fake journals, plagiarism, research quality, research productivity, Beaconhouse National University, Anjum Altaf, University of Management and Technology, MHRD, Habib University, Pakistan Higher Education Commission, Clarivate Analytics, citation hacking

What Pakistan’s Amazing Research Productivity Statistic Isn’t Telling You

Emaan Majed and Bilal Anwar 11/01/2019

The journal Nature reported in December that Pakistan's research...

IIIT Delhi, University Grants Commission, academic performance indicators, HECI Act 2018, plagiarism, fake journals, predatory journals, Prakash Javadekar,

Why India’s Best Universities Must Hire More Teachers

Pushkar 02/01/2019

India’s best universities need a mix of both teaching-...

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The Wire’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2018

The Wire Staff 30/12/2018

The following 10 articles were SciWi's most read in...

research misconduct, plagiarism, PhD, PhD dissertation, PhD thesis, University Grants Commission, MHRD, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, fake journals, predatory publishing, research fraud, All India Survey of Higher Education,

Fraction of PhD Students Has Been Mostly Constant, and Low, in Last Decade

Pushkar 20/09/2018

A relatively low number of PhDs will hurt the...