In Defense of Academic Standards Against Strange Hierarchies and Crass Quantifications

ABSTRACTAs one comes across the academic domain, one witnesses a strange hegemony in the publishing world: hegemonyof high power, CARE-listed and Scopus indexed journals over the rest. It’s no more surprising to discover the massdesperation for getting papers published in such elite journals. This has also contributed to the mushrooming ofprofessional farms/ agencies/ companies in the market who are coming forward openly to extend complete publishingsupport: from writing the script till it gets published in the elite journals. The present piece represents a modestendeavour to problematize the civilizational anxiety for elite publications in the name of ‘quality’.