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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.

[Sanjay Maurya @MeSanjayy]

"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

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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.

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Great to see this issue getting the attention.

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

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: https://t.co/MwHTK77XGe

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#SundayCartoon

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Link to the article: https://t.co/TfJfgddP49

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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: https://t.co/MMf53op6xB

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Few possibilities:

- Journal 'On Hold'. That is why Scopus not adding them
- Scopus slow to update (Unlikely)
- Inaccuracies in OpenAlex (Possible)

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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.

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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: https://t.co/IhpXDedvRA

[Dr Balraj | બલરાજ @balrajshukla]

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. ;)

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300 papers at 600 USD each. Researchers could have saved 1.8 crore rupees just in this journal if they had checked https://t.co/flpXp4DGPO

Note : We made this tool

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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: https://t.co/uuyRnSSDNr

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We have created a tool Journal Trends (link: https://t.co/flpXp4DGPO) 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.

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@amitavb1 Hope in future presentations you also present the retraction statistics of India. Seeing the graph for India will perhaps make people understand how big the problem is in India.

[Dr. (Prof) Amitav Banerjee, Epidemiologist @amitavb1]

Are we pushing the science community towards research and publishing fraud by coercion to publish against their "informed consent?"
https://t.co/TTHf0MJjse @IRWatchdog

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

'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

https://t.co/J1HMVEv0yx

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

The health of India's higher education exposed by a data scientist.

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@Dr_5GH @t_a_abdul @PredatoryReport @fake_journals @AbalkinaAnna @MicrobiomDigest @mumumouse2 @Thatsregrettab1 @FPapermill70800 @Spottingthespot Thanks for sharing. This is an important update.