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India targets universities in predatory-journal crackdown

But academics say government incentives to publish are part of the problem.
  1. Subhra Priyadarshini
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Most academics regard predatory journals as an irritant — if not a threat — to science. But in India, some universities have recommended the inclusion of such publications in the country’s ‘white list’ of approved journals. Now the government is cracking down on this practice, which scientists say came about as a result of perverse government incentives.

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Nature 560, 537-538 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06048-2

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