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    "Continue reading Economist outs another Indian university’s rankings-boosting scheme when they refuse to pay him"
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  "textContent": "On May 9, a university administrator in Afghanistan threatened in a LinkedIn post to expose what he called a publishing scam by private universities in India. “These institutions contact academicians globally, promising payment for publishing research papers that will boost their national and international rankings,” Mohd Asif Shah, dean of the faculty of economics at … Continue reading Economist outs another Indian university’s rankings-boosting scheme when they refuse to pay him",
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