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Congratulations to Prof. Deepak Dhar for becoming the second Indian to get the ICTP Dirac Medal 2026. It shows the tremendous research potential India has.
Prof. Dhar was already the first Indian to be awarded the Boltzmann medal, the highest award in Statistical Physics.
India Research Watch (IRW) retweeted
"We must also restore value of teaching. Faculty salaries, particularly for researchers and early-career academics, need serious reconsideration. Accreditation bodies must place greater emphasis on fair compensation and humane working conditions for all scholars," @IRWatchdog
How to choose a college? It is important that people dont make decisions blindly following flawed and gamed rankings. Please share this video with as many prospective students and parents to improve their awareness.
Great to see this issue getting the attention.
𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝟔 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎
With six Indian universities among the world’s top 10 for research paper retractions, concerns around plagiarism, fake peer reviews, and flawed incentives are growing.
✍️@Roshnism
Read more: indiatoday.in/education-toda…
Introducing Author Trends, the first website of its kind which gives sensible normalised metrics, research integrity signals and host of other information about researchers. Still in beta, do take it for a spin: authortrends.com
Few possibilities:
- Journal 'On Hold'. That is why Scopus not adding them
- Scopus slow to update (Unlikely)
- Inaccuracies in OpenAlex (Possible)
Our Op-Ed in @IndianExpress today. Our title for the article was 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐭'𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞: 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦.
We need urgent steps to improve the rot that has seeped in the Higher Education and Research. Consider supporting and signing this petition so that the authorities take note. 🙏
Link: c.org/TF2H7RrpQC
India Research Watch (IRW) retweeted
Journal Trends is an amazing tool to see publishing trends and patterns of a journal. All you need is an ISSN.
Hats off to @IRWatchdog for developing this incredible open source tool for research integrity. I believe it will come in very handy to identify paper mills. ;)
ALT https://journaltrends.netlify.app
300 papers at 600 USD each. Researchers could have saved 1.8 crore rupees just in this journal if they had checked journaltrends.netlify.app
Note : We made this tool
Prestigious journal Nature's been a measure of quality for a very long time. Despite huge lack of resources, India was a healthy contributor to the journal post independence. Since 90s, we have stopped contributing much. This is highly worrying.
Source: journaltrends.netlify.app/?i…
We have created a tool Journal Trends (link: journaltrends.netlify.app) to help visualize country wise, institute wise and author wise trends for any journal. It can help researchers stay away from predatory journals and choose more wisely.
India Research Watch (IRW) retweeted
Are we pushing the science community towards research and publishing fraud by coercion to publish against their "informed consent?"
youtu.be/yiLAR8AKkdw?si=IexI… @IRWatchdog
India Research Watch (IRW) retweeted
'NIRF parameters ill-designed & lead to absurd university ratings. Govt must order a review'
Achal Agrawal, founder of India Research Watch & Moumita Koley, research associate at DST-CPR, IISc, write
#ThePrintOpinion
theprint.in/opinion/nirf-par…
India Research Watch (IRW) retweeted
The health of India's higher education exposed by a data scientist.
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Achal Agrawal founded the India Research Watch (IRW) after his observations of grave academic misconduct in India. Dr. Agrawal, now a freelance data scientist in Raipur, told scientific journal Nature how shocked he was when a student spoke casually of using software to publish his work, writes @divyagandhi04
thehindu.com/sci-tech/scienc…
Our founder 💪💪
Achal Agrawal realised how ingrained research misconduct had become, and resolved to do something about the issue
He is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025
go.nature.com/4p7pESd