Are Research papers need to be included in the academic curriculum?
In this article, I would like to give some reasons why publications should be avoided from the academic curriculum.
There are some articles that advance technologies, like Dropout: a simple way to prevent neural networks from overfitting and there are some other papers that revolutionized the number of industries. These are papers published by professionals in that particular area but not by the students.
The very first thing I'm not satisfied with is, the quality of the paper is decided by the language/grammar used in the paper and the results declared by the author, and most of the publishers don't really check the code/implementation unless the author open-sources his/her code/work.
If publishers just want to grade the essays/documentation other than the code developed, there is no point in publishing because if we manage to get Grammarly's premium version by paying just $12/month, everyone can write excellent documentation.
I really don't want to mention but still, in order to give a real-time example I'm mentioning S. Raval sir, who completely plagiarized the "Neural Qbit" academic paper including results and still managed to publish the research article on his name which was originally done by "Andrew M Webb et al". The concern here is, most of the people are talking about S.Raval sir, but no one is mentioning the publisher who accepted the paper which has more than 90% plagiarism. Recently you can see one of the most reputed journals was looking into some very serious concerns. Click here to know about it.
Most of the papers published by PG students are not much innovative, most of them just add a line of code to the existing code and publish them as research. Most of the PG students publish because they won't get a degree without an academic paper.
I can honestly say, I have done 12 projects, by reading 40-50 IEEE papers(only IEEE papers) and with the help of some blogs and source codes in StackOverflow, I think this is the best example that most researches say the same thing with different methods or they might be the same. I don't like to mention the authors, there is an IEEE paper on "housing prices prediction with regression" which was published in 2020( I really don't understand, whether to laugh or cry). I think the people who did Andrew Ng sir's machine learning course in Coursera can implement this project there's no need for an academic paper for this project.
Let's say academic papers are useful for documentation for future or industry and academic collaboration or enhance some graduation students, I think blogs and some other social media accounts like Github, StackOverflow also do a similar kind of thing, no need to spend thousands of dollars(lakhs of rupees) just for documentation purpose and moreover, most graduate students don't read academic papers, they rely on Github or Youtube or Blogs which gives the source code.
Finally, I would like to say, if your idea or research is not that revolutionizing, try to publish it without investing in it. Anyways, from July 2021 publications are not considered for evaluating researchers instead UGC was considering the courses for evaluation, publications might increase your weight of the resume/profile. Just for increasing the weight of the profile, there's no point in spending money. You can invest the same amount of money on some courses which increases the weight of the profile as well as helps in career advancement and it'll allow us to gain some more knowledge, or you can invest the same amount of money in mutual funds or in the stock market which could give some good returns.
Note: I'm not against anything, I'm just trying to explain my perspective on academic papers. This is not to criticize anyone.
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