Rajendra Singh Bhati

Senior Research Fellow at Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Mohali

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

[arvind @arvind_iiserm]

Today Rajindra got his PhD degree. He came to @IiserMohali in 2011 after school and is now an independent researcher.

[Punjabi University, Patiala @PbiUniPatiala]

Prof
@arvind_iiserm spoke on 'A Glimpse into Quantum World from Atomic Spectra to Quantum Computing' at '5th Manohar Parrikar Vidnyan Mahotsav' organised by
@gsinc_goa @arvind_iiserm @BhagwantMann @harjotbains @dip_goa @Sandhwan @DproPatiala

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

@shivraj969 Awesome @shivraj969! Keep it up.

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Overpublishing puts enormous stress on students and PIs.

And brings tons of money to publishers in STEM.

A new study shows that the number of papers is increasing FASTER than the number of #PhD graduates.

It’s an amazing work with very useful statistics. Huge kudos to the authors!

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Main outcomes:

1️⃣ In 2022 the number of articles is 47% higher than in 2016. The amount of writing, reviewing and editing workload per scientist is increased enormously.

2️⃣ “Special issues” is a strategy for publishing lots of papers with reduced review time. This is possible due to the “publish or perish” pressure and clearly benefits the publishers.

3️⃣ The publishing time varies widely!
MDPI = 37 days. Frontiers = 72 days. Elsevier = 134 days. Springer = 157 days. Nature = 185 days.

4️⃣ The article rejection rates do not seem to correlate with publisher growth. However, rejection rates decline with increased use of special issue publishing.

5️⃣ Certain for-profit gold-open-access publishers create an increasing number of special issues, with uniquely reduced turnaround times, and in specific cases, high impact inflation and reduced rejection rates.

6️⃣ The authors suggest a new metric - Impact Inflation, which is reflected in self-citation within the same journal. For example, MDPI has a high impact inflation due to excessive self-citation compared to other publishers.

Conclusions and my opinion:

- Scientists have to spend a lot more time on reviewing and writing than before (on average).

- The more papers are published, the more the quality is compromised.

- Scientific progress has become partially bound to the business models of publishers and their revenue (a sad reality today).

- There is a huge lack of transparency. Much of these data had to be ‘web-scraped’ from numerous sources in order to get a full picture. We clearly need regulators to mandate open access to publisher’s statistics.

- Reduce the number of special issues! Those typically have low standards.

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Science, publishing and funding make a trio that is very hard to disentangle.

However, research quality is controlled by the community.

This is why preprint + community review can make a big difference.

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

यह वीडियो हमें महाराष्ट्र के डॉ प्रियदर्श से मिला जो अकेले मणिपुर के राहत शिविरों में सेवा देने गए थे। कुकी स्कूल में माइकल जैक्सन का जो गाना गाया जा रहा है, उम्मीद है उसकी पुकार दिल्ली की दीवारों से टकराएगी। आपकी अंतरात्मा तक पहुँचेगी। इन शिक्षकों को इस शिक्षक दिवस पर श्रेष्ठ पुरस्कार मिलना चाहिए। टीचर टीचर होती है।

[Kalpa IISER Pune @KalpaIISERPune]

This year @IISERPune witnessed its first Dalit History Month. On April 28, after an exhausting exam season, the IISER Pune community gathered to attend celebratory and educative talks and performances.

[Punjabi University, Patiala @PbiUniPatiala]

Punjab Government have reduced the budget allocation of @PbiUniPatiala from 200 to 164 crores. Vice Chancellor @arvind_iiserm responds to the budget: @BhagwantMann @HarpalCheemaMLA @harjotbains @AamAadmiParty @AAPbalbir @ArvindKejriwal @meet_hayer
https://t.co/JAUUeBXluY

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

@KaurAnubhav @Jaxy_Quantum @PhysRevA @arvind_iiserm Thanks @KaurAnubhav

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

@quantumsapien Beautiful.

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

I could witness #SolarEclipse from my favourite point in my village. Couldn't be more lucky. What a mesmerizing sunset!

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

@akankrathore Near Jodhpur.

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

@Mayukh_0902 Ideally, you are the suited one.

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

@minivets It could have been a great view. Sorry you missed it.

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

@jsbagla @harzi_sam Many assurances are apparently institutional in many institutions until a dispute happens.

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

@keerthana6174 Did you like the food?

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

Congratulations @Quantum_Kishor. What a journey man! It's a proud moment for @IiserMohali.

[Kishor Bharti @Quantum_Kishor]

Career update: started a new position as Lead Scientist (Quantum Learning Theory Group) at A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Experiments recognized by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics proved that quantum entanglement is real, despite Einstein’s objections. https://t.co/vFkJKItj9y

[Rajendra Singh Bhati @Bhati_Quantum]

@Jaxy_Quantum @Rajendr02709901 You could have mentioned this ID of mine 😉