Dear Professionals,
It is good that UGC has imposed rules for quality research and quality
faculty members in the Indian universities.
However scoring high APIs is not a refection of a good teacher always. The
teachers who are producing more efficient students, are more rightful to be
called as high quality teacher. Do we have a system to find such faculty
members who are engaged in promoting the students to be a good
knowledgeable professional?
Why there is a condition in this country that people are trying to collect
scores/certificates at the place of increasing knowledge and abilities?
Certificates/scores should be must proportional to the abilities/knowledge
acquired by a person.
If we have API policy, then predatory publishers must be condemned and
convicted.
With Kind Regards,
On 20 October 2015 at 13:24, Prof. Siddamallaiah HS
I think Dr.Moorthy missed the essence of the message.
It is not about the rule, but the practice that is creating an opportunity for such misuse.
Given that the language of honesty is not working, let’s create awareness and take action on such things. Else we would not have seen the rise of concern regarding quality and honesty between guide and student.
It is a chicken and egg issue. Let us work from one end of the spectrum and cover ground as we go, since we recognize many causes for this disease (predatory journals) such as - Ph.D., is survival need of many, in the process there is mass production of Ph.D.,… not enough journals like Dessidoc to provide opportunity for timely quality publication… course work of Ph.D. does not cover how to write a quality article, … many more if we start to highlight it.
Let's take this further.
- Siddamallaiah
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Aragonda L Moorthy < almoorthy52@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Professionals, I totally disagree with the comments bt Dr H siddamallaiah. A lot has come into the public. For the past 2 to 3 years I have been raising OA and plagiarism in various conferences, invited lectures at universities and workshops. I also mentioned OMICS group and their journals. I perused Beall's list and his blog. It is not the mandatory publications for submission of PhD by the UGC. It is the lazyness, letnargy and non-seriouisness of fellow professionals. The complacency and casual approach makes the Research Scholars simply sleep till last 6 months. As Editor and later Editor-in-Chief of* DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology *and* Defence Science Journal,* I received many requests from my friends or even senior professionals to facilitate publishing of papers which I shunned. As editor of few Conference papers, I observed the authors of papers blatantly cut and paste and submit papers. All these are bringing disrepute and bad name to the profession and also to the country Why cant Research Scholars write and publish first paper after start of their research say in one year or 18 months? Surely they would have collected basic info and formulated Hypotheses etc. But alas they are too busy in mundane things. They woke up just 6 months when the draft is cleared. And wish to submit papers and get them published within no time. Is it not unethical? A grave situation is that the guide will be a co-author and does not even see the paper and a lot of errors (mostly spelling, grammar and syntax mistakes) do creep in. Are these worthy of guides. Earlier, we have seen a number of PhDs awarded to schilars (sic) without any paper published. You can imagine some of their professional contributions. I wish UGC should stipulate that the publications should be at least 6 to 10 months before submission of thesis. Also, UGC should explore the possibility of publication of at least 6 papers before 6 to 10 months before submission of thesis. submission. Also, the stipulation to publish articles in journals with ISSN or books with ISBN is making spurious publishers to open shops to sell ISBNs and or start ISSN journal. I receive weekly at least 10 mails soliciting papers to ISSN journals or chapters to books. I make them all SPAM to avoid receiving again and again. Many Universities are using plagiarism tools. Editors should make it mandatory to check for plagiarism as also Peer Committees in Universities. Until we professionals do not follow guidelines, self-imposed quality restrictions, and unless the godly Guides take interest in their student's research this will not improve. There is no point in blaming UGC which for all the good reasons stipulated publishing papers to enable Researchers improve language, writing skills, and the naunces of publishing research article. I wish this to be discussed in conferences and workshops.
Dr AL Moorthy, Former Director-DESIDOC & Chief Consultant (Inf Sci), BrahMos Aerospace, Hyderabad Centre, Adj: DRDL Rear Gate, Kanchanbagh PO, Hyderabad-500058 Ph: (O) 040-24087058; Mob: 09951212000
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Prof. Siddamallaiah HS < siddahss@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, this menace is prevalent across the country since almost 3-4 years or even more
Predatory journals are taking advantage of the UGC rules for Ph.D.,. Which makes two publication mandatory. this mandatory rule is helping these Predatory Journals to make money and exploit them
It is essential to create awareness about these publication, social boycott and blacklist them
Let us take this as priority to save the image of India
Dr.H.S.Siddamallaiah Ex-Visiting Professor, Mahasarakham University, Thailand Ex-Principal Librarian and Information Officer NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Ishwar Goudar < goudarishwar@googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear Friends,
Predatory journals are a big menace in scholarly publication activity. The report quoted by Prof. Arun 'India is second only to Nigeria in publishing Predatory Journals' is a disturbing news and a big challenge for serious Indian Academic and Research Community. I keep getting mails from many dubitious publishers inviting me either to be in their editorial board or to submit a research papers and I am sure many of you must be getting similar mails. While I dont want to make any comments about the following examples, you can have your own inference/assessment after visiting their websites , the contact address, the so called editorial board, article processing charges and more importantly the misleading Impact factor values, etc.
1. There is one "Institute of Research In Engineering and Technology (IRET)", which publishes 10 Journals and 12 Transactions, covering almost all branches of engineering like a combined job of Societieslike IEEE, ASME, AIChE, ACM, ASCE, etc.
2. Another publishing group claims to publish with a slogan "A Monthly Double-Blind Peer Reviewed Refereed/Juried OA International Journals*, Included in the International Serial Directories"* http://ijrcm.org.in/ http://223.130.4.181/%7Emywahegu/link.php?M=2515958&N=124&L=12&F=H http://223.130.4.181/%7Emywahegu/link.php?M=2515958&N=124&L=12&F=H
I tried to visit this site, but.....
3. Following is one of the example, for which I received a mail inviting me to be in their editorial board. You make your own assessment
of this agency which publishes about 16 journals covering many disciplines. http://www.innovareacademics.in/index.php
4.. A good number of journals of this kind are being published including LIS in India I have received hundreds of mails of this kind either directly or through various forums like our Lis-forum, marked in a folder of my e-mail account.
5. There is an interesting report on the topic of discussion. Junk journals from bogus research center
6. We keeping seeing many postings in our Lis-forum requesting for contributing a chapter for the proposed edited book to be published with ISBN number by a well known International Publisher without
giving
more details. Intentions are obvious for adding some API score as author/editor. (This ststement of mine is not necessarity on
issue of Predatory Journals, although has some bearing on the topic.)
7. There are some agencies evaluating journals, many a times overnight and provide misguiding different kind of Impact Factor values.
For example the agency detailed in the following URL assigns 'Technical Impact Factor'. http://timpactfactor.com/index.html Following is a sentence I have just copied from it's site. Please read it and examine the spelling mistake, from an ageccy evaluating scholarly journals. "Technical factor can be added to impact factor. Technical factor is caliculated from editorial bord and journal team members".
Another agency "Index Copernicus International", which releases annual list of journals with "IC Value". It claims of using various parameters for assigning this value. Please visit the following site for more
http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/04/28/more-junk-journals-from-a-bogus-research-c... the details.
http://jml2012.indexcopernicus.com/masterlist.php
I can go on and on giving such examples. We need analyse the situation and reasons for this kind of developments. - UGC has mandated to publish two research papers before submission of PhD and obviously many take a short cut of reducing processing time from 1-6 months to 1-6 days by approaching predatory journal publishers. - While many academicians and researchers do serious research and publish in quality journals, few follow this shortcuts just for API score required for recruitment and assessment for promotion. - Unless all our authorities and research administrators including Chairpersons of the departments, BOS and guides are serious I don't think there is any solution. UGC's move of scanning research papers and ETDs using Plagiarism software for similarity check may help the situation, but may not curb the menace created by Predatory Journals totally. We need a serious and proper consorted effort by all stake holder of scholarly publishing activity including Publishers (both Commercial and Society), Academic and Research Administarors, Faculties and Scientists, Librarians, etc.
I REQUEST ALL OF YOU TO REACT AND CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION ON THIS ISSUE.
Regards,
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Subbiah Arunachalam < subbiah.arunachalam@gmail.com> wrote:
Friends:
India is second only to Nigeria in predatory publishing, says this report:
http://www.punchng.com/opinion/viewpoint/the-upsurge-in-black-market-publish...
Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009
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