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Almost all data and statistics out of Delhi are bogus and fradulent. An analysis posted on the Nature journals site published by Richard Van Noorden and Bob OHara found that India had the highest fraud rate in the world18 papers of 100,000. Bharat leads. This is far higher than those for China (11), South Korea(9), the US (5), Japan(5), the UK(2), and Germany(1). Scientific misconduct has been an issue of concern for the past few decades. Plagiarism is growing exponentially.
A working paper by Prof T A Abinandanan from the IIS Indian Institute of Science on scientific misconduct in India sheds light on the misconduct rates have risen from 10 per 100,000 papers in 1991-2000 to 44 per 100,000 papers in the decade 2001-10.
Scientific misconduct in the republic of India has risen four times since the nineties, pushing the country to the top of the fraud rate across the world.
The IIS Abinandanans study looks at papers retracted by journals over the past few years. This would be a good metric to look at. The study found that for the 2001-10 period, 70 papers out of 103,434 papers published from India have been retracted.
Of the 70 retracted papers here is the breakdown:
◦45 papers were attributed to some form of plagiarism23 for text plagiarism,
◦18 for self plagiarism, and 3 for data plagiarism.
The 45 papers involve a large number of scientists from some of the best institutes in the country. The 45 retracted papers from India had over 130 authors; and 12 authors had at least three(overlapping) retractions due to misconduct, the paper notes.
The researchers behind misconduct-laden papers are not only from lower-tier institutions, but also from some top institutions in India:
◦CSIR Labs,
◦DBT Labs,
◦Banares Hindu University,
◦Postgraduate Institute for Medical Education and Research, and
◦IIT-Kanpur.
Recently Kalasalingam University in Tamil Nadu fired a professor and revoked the registration of six students last week for data manipulation.
Shamed nations
Retraction rate for countries per 100,000 papers
Country Rate
◦UK 13
◦USA 14
◦Japan 16
◦World 17
◦South Korea 44
◦China 48
◦India 68
◦India(*) 44(*) Misconduct rate Source: blogs.nature.com/boboh
A working paper by Prof T A Abinandanan from the IIS Indian Institute of Science on scientific misconduct in India sheds light on the misconduct rates have risen from 10 per 100,000 papers in 1991-2000 to 44 per 100,000 papers in the decade 2001-10.
Scientific misconduct in the republic of India has risen four times since the nineties, pushing the country to the top of the fraud rate across the world.
The IIS Abinandanans study looks at papers retracted by journals over the past few years. This would be a good metric to look at. The study found that for the 2001-10 period, 70 papers out of 103,434 papers published from India have been retracted.
Of the 70 retracted papers here is the breakdown:
◦45 papers were attributed to some form of plagiarism23 for text plagiarism,
◦18 for self plagiarism, and 3 for data plagiarism.
The 45 papers involve a large number of scientists from some of the best institutes in the country. The 45 retracted papers from India had over 130 authors; and 12 authors had at least three(overlapping) retractions due to misconduct, the paper notes.
The researchers behind misconduct-laden papers are not only from lower-tier institutions, but also from some top institutions in India:
◦CSIR Labs,
◦DBT Labs,
◦Banares Hindu University,
◦Postgraduate Institute for Medical Education and Research, and
◦IIT-Kanpur.
Recently Kalasalingam University in Tamil Nadu fired a professor and revoked the registration of six students last week for data manipulation.
Shamed nations
Retraction rate for countries per 100,000 papers
Country Rate
◦UK 13
◦USA 14
◦Japan 16
◦World 17
◦South Korea 44
◦China 48
◦India 68
◦India(*) 44(*) Misconduct rate Source: blogs.nature.com/boboh
we are not far behind in this field
