“MALAYSIAN academics among the top in ‘fraudulent’ publications found in global database”, cried the headline of an online news portal recently. A chorus of mainstream media portals followed.
Malaysians are rightly concerned about the fact that their hard-earned tax ringgits are allegedly being abused by a small group of unscrupulous academics in public universities by publishing their research results in fraudulent journals.
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