CURRENT TRENDS IN RESEARCH INFLUENCING ITS SCIENTIFIC VALUE

Abstract

Abstract- Research primarily focusses on pursuing in-depth knowledge for the progress of the science and society. Publishing the work is crucial for its communication among the scientific community and to the public. Conducting the research demands extensive time and effort but the entire struggle goes futile unless the work got published in a reputed journal. A researcher confronts many such dilemma as the appraisal of his effort depends upon the quality of conducting and publishing the work. Current setting demands increasing publication for professional accreditation and upgradation of research profile pressurizing authors which results in many ethical lapses in their works. This paper intends to highlight such lapses commonly seen in current research practices. The match between the study design and the research objectives, various components like sample size, methods of recruiting participants against inclusion and exclusion criteria and allocating the subjects to different groups, time period for collecting data or conducting the study, enlisting the confounding variables influencing the results, maintenance of data transparency and arriving at conclusions without considering the alternatives have considerable impact over its credibility. Improper execution of the work could affect its replicability and such negligence in research influences its quality making the entire work insignificant. Summary - The current academic and research settings have forced the scholars and researchers to conduct extensive research for increasing their publications and upgrading their research profile. This led to many works with uncertain credibility, reflected in the execution of the study as well as with its publication. This article points out a few among such works from different aspects which could influence the result of the study. Such trends in research is making the whole resource and time futile and the entire work insignificant.