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Shoddy commentaries—a quick and dirty route to higher impact numbers—are on the rise.
Frederik Joelving
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Edex Live

NIRF Rankings: Do they reflect true academic excellence?
Lovely Majumdar
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ThePrint

NIRF parameters ill-designed & lead to absurd university ratings
Achal Agrawal
Moumita Koley
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Chemistry World

Are Indian higher education institutes gaming the ranking system?
Sanjukta Mondal
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ThePrint

Something’s wrong with THE World University Rankings.
Achal Agrawal
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Times Of India

Retraction of papers soar, but no clarity on action on IIT faculty
Hemali Chappia
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ThePrint

India’s research crime is getting worse. Scientists are gaming peer review system
Soumya Pillai
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Zenodo - Preprint

Are the Metrics being Gamed? A Closer Look at the Rise and Fall of Universities in NIRF 2024 Rankings
Achal Agrawal
Moumita Koley

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