Empathize and Sympathize with Less Privileged Academic Fraternity

Adhikarla Suryanarayana Rao

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Empathize and Sympathize with Less Privileged Academic Fraternity

Adhikarla Suryanarayana Rao

Published in Higher Education Research (Volume 5, Issue 4)

Received: 15 July 2020 Accepted: 3 August 2020 Published: 13 August 2020

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Abstract

Academic fraternity in different countries of the world though work honestly, face several hurdles to project themselves—a fact that needs to be realized. In this context it is definitely fair to say that it was unfortunate in the past to defame a very a large number of authors and journals and continue to nurture this attitude till today. Authors pursuing their endeavors honestly are demoralized. Personal experiences cannot be documented but are only spread by word of mouth. Both on the basis of personal experiences and available documented data, no one is so sacrosanct. Fact of enormous pressure of gargantuan expansion in higher education has to be viewed from all angles. One most important aspect of this is, authors all over the world-even with all their limitations- wish to establish an evidence of their work & contribution and project their academic concern and caliber at the earliest. Maligning publishers and maligning authors / academic institutions is an unfortunate thing. International scientific community should adopt a friendly policy towards all. Let every candidate-at whatever level one may be-be interrogated and evaluated in person by the concerned employer for whatever may be the purpose. Hence, maligning of journals and candidates in any form may be avoided.

Published in	Higher Education Research (Volume 5, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.her.20200504.17
Page(s)	162-166
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Journal Controversy, Differential Relevance of Research, Gargantuan Number of Researchers, Resource Crunch, Academic Pressures, Limitation of Publishing Space

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Department of Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India

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