According to current UGC regulations, a PhD student is required to publish at least one paper in a peer-reviewed journal before thesis submission. Right now, the problem in India is that many institutions have abdicated the responsibility for PhD quality by outsourcing it to journals," he notes. That precisely is what happened in India after the UGC made paper publication prior to thesis submission mandatory. Prof. VijayRaghavan is convinced that doing away with the current regulation and offering this alternative will have several advantages. It does eventually get peer-reviewed and published, but that process has no impact on your PhD, or postdoc," Prof. VijayRaghavan emphasises.

Source: The Hindu June 11, 2019 13:18 UTC