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(Pakistan) Fraudulent research thriving in Pakistan due to HEC’s apathy – The International News (Arshad Yousafzai | October 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on November 6, 2021
Keywords: Institutional responsibilities, International, Journal, Publication ethics, Research integrity, Research results

The Linked Original Item was Posted On October 25, 2021

The flag of Pakistan artistically stressed.

Predatory and clone research journals that offer online publishing of substandard research papers have made it very easy for some Pakistani varsity teachers to commit academic fraud after online payment of a few hundred dollars.

Despite teachers getting promotions and other perks on the basis of their substandard research articles published in predatory and clone journals, the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC), and relevant educational institutions and authorities seem to have failed to take any action against such journals on the internet, fraudulent research practices and so-called academics involved in damaging Pakistan’s scientific reputation for the sake of acquiring higher positions through malpractices.

This story highlights the degree to which the scientific reputations of researchers, institutions and even entire countries can be undermined by having the reputation of repeated publication with questionable publishers.  National bodies, funding bodies and institutions need to urge researchers away from such publishers.  Including recognising some researchers are gaming performance, recruitment, promotion and grant processes, with publications that are bought, rather than peer reviewed.  We have included links to 15 related items.

It is also not very difficult for the relevant authorities to take action in this regard as global research watchdogs, including Beall’s List — a website that maintains a list of potential predatory journals, Retraction Watch Database — another website that keeps record of retracted research papers, which are papers removed by a journal after publication on account of later discovery of some malpractice or other reason, and impact-finding indexing agencies like Scopus and Web of Science have already identified many such fake, predatory and clone journals and fraudulent research papers authored by Pakistani academics.

Due to the apparent apathy of the HEC and other authorities towards predatory and clone journals, many honest academics are also being deceived as they cite articles published in clone journals, which are sub-standard journals using the name of reputed journals for deception. A significant number of faculty members at prestigious educational institutes of Pakistan have also published their papers in clone journals after being misled by their name.

Fraudulent research thriving in Pakistan due to HEC’s apathy
Predatory and clone research journals that offer online publishing of substandard research papers have made it very easy for some Pakistani varsity...

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Wilfully submitting to and publishing in predatory journals – a covert form of research misconduct? (Papers: Nicole Shu Ling Yeo-Teh & Bor Luen Tang | August 2021)

(Pakistan) The rising menace of scholarly black-market Challenges and solutions for improving research in low-and middle-income countries – JPMA Editorial (Aamir Raoof Memon, Farooq Azam Rathore | June 2021

Indonesia should stop pushing its academics to chase empty indicators – NIKKEI Asia (March 2021)

(Algeria) New measures for fighting scourge of academic fraud – University World News (Wagdy Sawahel | February 2021)

Predatory Publishing in Scopus: Evidence on Cross‑country Differences (Papers: Vít Macháček & Martin Srholec | February 2021)

(Australia) Thousands of researchers in Australia appear on editorial boards of ‘predatory’ journals – Nature Index (Dalmeet Singh Chawla | April 2020)

(India) India’s Fight Against Predatory Journals: An Interview with Professor Bhushan Patwardhan – Scholarly Kitchen (Tao Tao | February 2020)

Defining predatory journals and responding to the threat they pose: a modified Delphi consensus process (Papers: Samantha Cukier, et al | February 2020)

Pondering on whether to submit your research output to a journal?

Are we missing the true picture? Stop calling a moneybox, a fishing hook

The extent of South African authored articles in predatory journals (Papers: Johann Mouton & Astrid Valentine | 2017)

South Africa has spent millions of dollars subsidizing articles in scam academic journals – Quartz (Sarah Wild | September 2017)

‘Dodgy’ articles in academic journals threatens integrity of South African science – News24 (Tony Carnie | September 2017)

In a world of hijacked, clone and zombie publishing, where shouldn’t I publish?

Increased Publication in Predatory Journals by Developing Countries’ Institutions: What it Entails? And What Can be Done? (Papers: Mulubrhan Balehegn | 2017)

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