India To Penalize Universities With Too Many Retractions (nature.com) 6
India's national university ranking will start penalizing institutions if a sizable number of papers published by their researchers are retracted -- a first for an institutional ranking system. Nature: The move is an attempt by the government to address the country's growing number of retractions due to misconduct. Many retractions correct honest mistakes in the literature, but others arise because of misconduct.
India has had more papers retracted than any country apart from China and the United States, according to an analysis of the public database maintained by Retraction Watch of retractions over the past three decades. But whereas less than 1 paper is retracted for every 1,000 papers published in the United States, more than 3 are retracted for every 1,000 published in China, and the figure is 2 per 1,000 in India. The majority in India and China are withdrawn because of misconduct or research-integrity concerns.
India has had more papers retracted than any country apart from China and the United States, according to an analysis of the public database maintained by Retraction Watch of retractions over the past three decades. But whereas less than 1 paper is retracted for every 1,000 papers published in the United States, more than 3 are retracted for every 1,000 published in China, and the figure is 2 per 1,000 in India. The majority in India and China are withdrawn because of misconduct or research-integrity concerns.
Re: (Score:3)
Universities are all about teaching. This will teach their researchers how to fake their research better.
Re:You get what you measure (Score:5, Insightful)
The retractations are foreceful actions from the journals after misconduct is noticed. When scientists make honest mistakes they don't retract the works, they publish a Corrigendum.
When cheating becomes normalised (Score:2, Informative)
Front page on the Times of India broadsheet newspaper on one of my trips there, was about students protesting that their "right to cheat in exams" was being curtailed in some institution. Can't recall now which one it was, but the article made clear this was a national phenomenon.
That was quite some time ago, before the web and with in-person exams and I can't imagine the situation has now improved.
Ranking metric needs recalibration (Score:2)
"India’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) assesses higher-education institutions every year. It takes into account factors including teaching, engagement and research-impact metrics such as publication and citation counts"
https://www.nature.com/article... [nature.com]
One measure which should get increased is graduation rates and post-graduation jobs by percent having a job within 6 months of graduating and salary/compensation for that job.
The article is about India. The US also has some form of res
So what's the intention? (Score:2)
Improve the quality of research or disincentivize the reporting of fraudulent research