International watchdogs are flagging India as a top producer of ‘low-quality and fraudulent’ research. Last year, India ranked behind only China and the US.
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It’s not every day that scientific research papers get torn apart on social media—academic exposés rarely happen there. But on 13 July, the watchdog account @spottingthespot posted over two dozen screenshots of papers, each stamped with a bold, red ‘Retracted’. All of these papers, published by the leading science journal Elsevier, carried a ‘cross mark’ confirming their retraction.
