An Account on the Count of Mushrooming Journals!

Ruchi Kothari; Pradeep Bokariya; Saahil M. L. Nongrum; Ramji Singh

Ruchi Kothari Department of Physiology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha, Maharashtra, India
Pradeep Bokariya Department of Anatomy, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra
Saahil M. L. Nongrum II Year MBBS Student, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra
Ramji Singh Department of Physiology, AIIMS, Patna, Bihar, India

Abstract

Sir,

Five years down the lane, my mailbox used to be filled with mails from all round the globe declaring me a winner and ready to shell out a lot of money as rewards. Nowadays, my mailbox blooms with journal Editors’ mails, and every journal claims to be world class and indexed with multiple agencies. It really is a matter of surprise to know are we conducting so much research that its numbers are increasing day by day. Every journal seems to be a peer‑reviewed journal but are there actually so many reviewers available?

In the present scenario, there is a massive increase in submitted manuscripts with no surety of unbiased scientific quality control. Read more. . .