A CITY IN THE HILL OR A DUNGEON IN THE VALLEY: WHERE ARE WE HEADING WITH OUR PRESENT PUBLICATION CULTURE

Abstract

Many academic practices are questionable yet gaining increased practice. As a call of their responsibility, people concerned about such anomalies have expressed their agony on the issues in forums that have looked into some with a positive intent while ignoring others. Unfortunately, the ignored ones are growing daily, making ethically and intellectually sound minds cringe. This situation is largely due to a lack of corrective action in most cases due to lack of resources and few cases due to a lack of intent. This is a genuine review on the matter so far without highlighting any great institution (to undermine their reputation) or undermining the ignoramus ones (considering their lack of resources) worldwide. Instead, this article aims to highlight some of these anomalies for the attention of concerned intellectuals so that they can react quickly before it is too late for any remedial action.