India Research Watch (IRW) @IRWatchdog
Eradicating Malpractices in Indian Research. Non-Profit. Founded in 2022. All views our own. No employer responsible for anything posted via this handle. irw.co.in Delhi Joined October 2023-
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Link to the article: indiatoday.in/education-toda…
Introducing Author Trends, the first website of its kind which gives sensible normalised metrics, research integrity signals and host of other information about researchers. Still in beta, do take it for a spin: authortrends.com
Few possibilities: - Journal 'On Hold'. That is why Scopus not adding them - Scopus slow to update (Unlikely) - Inaccuracies in OpenAlex (Possible)
Our Op-Ed in @IndianExpress today. Our title for the article was 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐭'𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞: 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦.
We need urgent steps to improve the rot that has seeped in the Higher Education and Research. Consider supporting and signing this petition so that the authorities take note. 🙏 Link: c.org/TF2H7RrpQC
Journal Trends is an amazing tool to see publishing trends and patterns of a journal. All you need is an ISSN. Hats off to @IRWatchdog for developing this incredible open source tool for research integrity. I believe it will come in very handy to identify paper mills. ;)
300 papers at 600 USD each. Researchers could have saved 1.8 crore rupees just in this journal if they had checked journaltrends.netlify.app Note : We made this tool
Prestigious journal Nature's been a measure of quality for a very long time. Despite huge lack of resources, India was a healthy contributor to the journal post independence. Since 90s, we have stopped contributing much. This is highly worrying. Source: journaltrends.netlify.app/?issn=0028-0836
We have created a tool Journal Trends (link: journaltrends.netlify.app) to help visualize country wise, institute wise and author wise trends for any journal. It can help researchers stay away from predatory journals and choose more wisely.
@amitavb1 Hope in future presentations you also present the retraction statistics of India. Seeing the graph for India will perhaps make people understand how big the problem is in India.
Are we pushing the science community towards research and publishing fraud by coercion to publish against their "informed consent?" youtu.be/yiLAR8AKkdw?si… @IRWatchdog
'NIRF parameters ill-designed & lead to absurd university ratings. Govt must order a review' Achal Agrawal, founder of India Research Watch & Moumita Koley, research associate at DST-CPR, IISc, write #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/nirf-p…
The health of India's higher education exposed by a data scientist.
@Dr_5GH @t_a_abdul @PredatoryReport @fake_journals @AbalkinaAnna @MicrobiomDigest @mumumouse2 @Thatsregrettab1 @FPapermill70800 @Spottingthespot Thanks for sharing. This is an important update.
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Achal Agrawal founded the India Research Watch (IRW) after his observations of grave academic misconduct in India. Dr. Agrawal, now a freelance data scientist in Raipur, told scientific journal Nature how shocked he was when a student spoke casually of using software to publish
Our founder 💪💪
Achal Agrawal realised how ingrained research misconduct had become, and resolved to do something about the issue He is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/4p7pESd
Achal Agrawal realised how ingrained research misconduct had become, and resolved to do something about the issue He is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/4p7pESd
How to juice your Google Scholar h-index, preprint by preprint. retractionwatch.com/2025/12/08/how…
Our founder was part of Nature's 10 people who shaped Science in 2025. We thank @MiryamNaddaf and @Nature for recognizing our work.
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