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What Scientists Make of the Govt’s New Draft Ethics Policy for Academics

The Wire Staff 31/07/2019

For some time now, Indian academia has been plagued...

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Should Publishing Journal Articles Be Mandatory for PhD Students?

Pushkar 03/06/2019

While being published is a prerequisite for being sufficiently...

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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...

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...

Research on coral reefs published by scientists at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has been found to have plagiarised content, some of it wrong and misleading.

Joint Director of Zoological Survey Plagiarised Book, Published False Data

Nithyanand Rao 17/07/2018

His and his colleagues' actions imperil coral research within...

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The Stanford Prison Experiment, or How to Make It Big Using Research Fraud

The Wire Staff 19/06/2018

There are now multiple sources to prove that the...