Publishing papers has been an ordeal for faculty seeking to build their portfolio for career appraisal concerning promotion. Many Ph.D. scholars registering for their doctoral studies find it difficult to complete the same owing to their inability to publish papers in reputed journals, which is a qualification prescribed by the university, resulting in depressive disorders. Media reports suggest some 70% of Ph.D students experience some sort of depressive disorders.

Weak research culture

Scholars in social sciences and humanities in colleges and universities have the legacy of publishing their thesis predominantly as stereotypical books without benchmarking the same while those in Science by default publish in journals indexed by Web of Science. The former are more prone to depressive d

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