“Most of th e evil in this world is done by people with good intentions” stated Eliot. A case in point is the pressure on academics to publish or perish. The stringent publication policies of the erstwhile Medical Council of India (MCI) such as giving credit to only original articles, granting academic merit to only two authors in a paper, putting embargo on e‑journals, recognizing only handful of arbitrary indexing agencies, have to be appraised in proper context. An amendment was made by MCI in 2015 which ruled that case report would not count as publication.
Another stipulation was that only 1st and 2nd author would get credit for a paper. In a subsequent amendment, the credit was given only to the first and the corresponding authors. At the global level, all authors of a paper get equal credit.To enable medical faculty to publish in an ethical way, we should not impose such…
