India's scientific publication in predatory journals: Need for regulating quality of Indian science and education

Current Science

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1759-1764

  Seethapathy, G S ^a   Santhosh Kumar, J U ^b   Hareesha, A S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b KUVEMPU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Open access; Predatory journals; Quality regulation; Scientific publishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007602100     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18520/cs/v111/i11/1759-1764     Document Type: Article

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