Suggestions for improving the academic status of Indian research journals

摘要

A lot has been said in the past about the desire to improve the academic standard of scientific research journals published in the country. Poor impact factor of the journals (Curr. Sci., 2002, 82, 788) is said to be a dissuading factor for the competitive workers to get their work published in Indian journals. Another reason for getting their work published in prestigious foreign journals is the opportunity for the authors to learn more about the subject from the comments of the reviewers. Yet another reason for their indifference towards Indian journals, is the fact that the comments of most of the referees are not to the point, less helpful to the authors, and do not reflect the referee's depth of knowledge (Curr. Sci., 2001, 80, 808). One of the topmost chemists of the country, in a personal communication to the author, expressed his disgust and disappointment over the incompetent and unhelpful comments on one of his review articles that he communicated to an Indian journal for publication.