Indian scientists launch preprint repository to boost research quality

“The success of the Indonesian and African preprint repositories motivated us to create another one for the global south,” says Sridhar Gutam, a plant scientist at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. Gutam says some early-career researchers publish in these journals to fulfil the government’s academic assessment requirements for career advancement, which place weight on the number of research publications. Although several national funding agencies have policies that recommend academics post early versions of manuscripts to preprint repositories, many Indian journals still do not accept submissions that have been archived.

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