Beautiful Copied Comment Regarding HEC Policies: No reason to dispute Dr Laghari pleading innocent, and I believe him when he says he had stronger credentials than a mere paper in unrecognised journal authored by someone else. But, it is ironic to see a higest HEC ex-official falling victim to HEC’s own flawed policies. It is well known that geting promotions, grants, awards on the basis of fradulent papers is a norm rather than exception among Pakistani academia. I have seen very senior people with hundreds of pages of CVs listing hundreds of such publications like the one Dr Leghari is refusing to own. These senior professors actively hunt for co-authors who are willing to share authorship of whatever garbage they write and are able to get it published in whatever crapy periodical. Plagiarism is one thing, and after years of running key-matching database softwares, our these professors have invented ways to circumvent being caught. More serious thing is the papers with fabricated data which no software in the world is able to detect. I have seen reputed (i.e true) professors heading large research groups in Europe and US, with state of the art technical facilities, employing scores of graduate students and postdocs, and multimillion grants at hands, are hardly able to publish, say 10 papers in a year. And our fradulent professors, with miniscule research resources, having no lab facilities, no man power, and no technical resorces, list hundreds of fake publications/year on their fat CVs. And worrying thing is they get huge recognition in terms of promotions, positions etc. Fact is they perform no research at all, and with the help of their equally dishonest students who are in hurry to get a crappy PhD degree, manage to carefully build for themselves an image of well renowned scientists. And what is behind all this? Flawed policies of HEC, which somehow came to belive since its inception that producing large number of PhDs and publishing hundreds thousands of papers in a year is the reason first world became so developed. Nadeem Ahmed comments please?
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:36:37 +0000
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