Overview

• NBA chairman Anil Sahasrabudhe said draft norms for formal negative marking are being prepared and will be announced soon.
• The revised methodology will deduct scores for retracted research as well as for citations of retracted or tainted papers.
• The change seeks to curb plagiarism, duplication and manipulated data by removing incentives for flawed publications.
• Persistent misrepresentation could invite harsher measures, including possible removal from the rankings, with final thresholds yet to be set.
• This overhaul follows a transparency challenge that led to a brief Madras High Court stay on NIRF rankings, later lifted after central intervention.