Recently, the former chief of CSIR, Shekhar Mande, made a sensational claim that paid publishing in science has killed the peer review system.
According to renowned biologist Shekhar Mande, the peer review system – or the examination of academic work by others in the same field – has broken down because authors can simply pay to be published.
The former director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said even reputable online publications charge auth...
