The conundrum of academic publication
By: Kuamr, Srivastava Ashish
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BookPublisher: Journal of the Indian Law Institute Description: 65(4), Oct-Dec, 2023: p.397-411.
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Journal of the Indian Law InstituteSummary: Academic publications are sine quo non for academic professionals. Publishing quality academic publications advances public knowledge and contribute to research and development in society. In higher educational institutions academic publications play a very crucial role for academic professionals, libraries, publishers, students, research scholars and general public. The accreditation and rankings of educational institutions have influenced the whole process of academic publishing greatly. Academic Performance Index in India based on academic publications are taken in to account for appointments and promotions to academic positions and for award of research grants. Academic publications are made for variety of reasons e.g. advancement of knowledge, refreshing knowledge, making a research public, grant of patent for an invention, award of degree of doctorate, appreciation of peer, appointments, promotions, and award of research grants. Issue of academic integrity, plagiarism, academic theft is not new to academic world. Open access model publication has open a pandora box of predatory publications. Publication in indexed journals or UGC care listed journals are very jostling experience as the indexed journals are often discontinued without disclosure of reasons to public. Advent of writing and referencing software like OCR software, voice access software, voice to text software, writing to text software, SPPSS, R Software large language model software like Chat GPT, paraphrasing software, grammar correction software, and content creation software has made writing a child’s play. Detection of plagiarism due to content creation by software and paraphrasing software, data analysis software has become almost impossible. Empirical academic publication are again marred by the fake web scraping techniques wherein false data are being created to narrate or validate a hypothesis. In these social and technical settings an academic professional feels like being in high sea without rudder and compass. In this paper the author in traversing the issues of academic publications and academic integrity and attempts to raise the questions relating to academic publications.- Reproduced
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Academic publications are sine quo non for academic professionals. Publishing quality academic publications advances public knowledge and contribute to research and development in society. In higher educational institutions academic publications play a very crucial role for academic professionals, libraries, publishers, students, research scholars and general public. The accreditation and rankings of educational institutions have influenced the whole process of academic publishing greatly. Academic Performance Index in India based on academic publications are taken in to account for appointments and promotions to academic positions and for award of research grants. Academic publications are made for variety of reasons e.g. advancement of knowledge, refreshing knowledge, making a research public, grant of patent for an invention, award of degree of doctorate, appreciation of peer, appointments, promotions, and award of research grants. Issue of academic integrity, plagiarism, academic theft is not new to academic world. Open access model publication has open a pandora box of predatory publications. Publication in indexed journals or UGC care listed journals are very jostling experience as the indexed journals are often discontinued without disclosure of reasons to public. Advent of writing and referencing software like OCR software, voice access software, voice to text software, writing to text software, SPPSS, R Software large language model software like Chat GPT, paraphrasing software, grammar correction software, and content creation software has made writing a child’s play. Detection of plagiarism due to content creation by software and paraphrasing software, data analysis software has become almost impossible. Empirical academic publication are again marred by the fake web scraping techniques wherein false data are being created to narrate or validate a hypothesis. In these social and technical settings an academic professional feels like being in high sea without rudder and compass. In this paper the author in traversing the issues of academic publications and academic integrity and attempts to raise the questions relating to academic publications.- Reproduced
http://14.139.60.116:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/48194/1/30_The%20Conundrum%20of%20Academic%20Publication.pdf
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