August 26, 2009
As Pressure to Publish Increases in India, So Does the Call for Research Oversight
(Gurinder Osan for The Chronicle)
K.L. Chopra, president of the Society for Scientific Values and a former director of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, is among those who say the government should create an independent panel to investigate research misconduct.
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(Gurinder Osan for The Chronicle)
K.L. Chopra, president of the Society for Scientific Values and a former director of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, is among those who say the government should create an independent panel to investigate research misconduct.
New Delhi
Two years ago, Raghunath Mashelkar, a leading science-policy expert, shocked Indian academe when he admitted that a book he co-authored in 2004—ironically, about intellectual property—contained plagiarized text.
"I was working on so many things at the time that I took the help of researchers to add new information to what I had written," he told Science magazine. "Unfortunately, they copied verbatim from somebody else's writings. I know it is a sin. But I was so
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