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<h2><a href="https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=4522a8a4c3&e=ba31e2f257" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222;text-decoration:none">India’s fight against shoddy scholarship</span></a>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222;letter-spacing:.15pt">“Fending off the attack of trash science will be a long battle,” says grant commissioner Bhushan Patwardhan, who was part of the effort by India’s higher-education regulator
to <a href="https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=fa07d73674&e=ba31e2f257">
cull hundreds of journals</a> from a list of approved titles. Patwardhan argues that the more important work is still to come to
<a href="https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=372d81afd9&e=ba31e2f257">
correct the emphasis on quantity over quality</a> as an academic performance indicator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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