Publications

Guidelines

Guidance Document: Good Academic Research Practices (GARP)
by University Grants Commission

Interview

India’s Fight Against Predatory Journals: An Interview with Professor Bhushan Patwardhan in Scholarly Kitchen (February 5, 2020)

Commentary

Patwardhan, B. and  Desiraju, G. R. (2020). Assessing research: The slippery slope. Current Science, 118 (12), 1869–1870.

Patwardhan, Bhushan, Thakur, Archana (2019) UGC-CARE initiative to promote research quality, integrity and publication ethics, Current Science, 117, 6.

Grudniewicz, Agnes,  Moher, David, Cobey, Kelly D., et.al. (2019) Predatory journals: no definition, no defence, Nature, 576, 210-212.

Patwardhan Bhushan and Patwardhan Kishor (2019) Contesting Predators: Cleaning Up Trash in Science, The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Vol. 25 (10), https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2019.0339 

Worldview

Patwardhan Bhushan (2019) Why India strikes back against predatory journals?  Nature, 571, 7. 

Journal articles

Nagarkar, S., Thakur, A., Mane, M., & Nagare, P. (2023). Indian languages, print journals and the UGC-CARE project. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication. 

Nagarkar, S., & Khole, S. (2023). Predatory Journals: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Literature Published between 2012 and 2021. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 54(1), 80-102. 

Patwardhan, B., & Nagarkar, S. (2021). The UGC-CARE initiative: Indian academia's quest for research and publishing integrity. First Monday.