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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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35,000+ Scientific Papers May Need to Be Retracted for Image Duplication

The Wire Staff 06/07/2018

While people commonly defer to science to provide an...

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The ‘Meltdown’ of a $3 Million Research Project

Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica 28/04/2018

How a star psychiatrist at the University of Illinois...

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Infinite in All Directions: The Adjacent Possible in Engineering and Biology

Vasudevan Mukunth 17/04/2017

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