Saveetha Dental College (SDC), Chennai, is first on the list of most-cited dentistry institutions in the world, in the QS World University Rankings, and first-ranked in India’s National Institutional Ranking Framework for dental schools.
But according to a new investigation by Science and Retraction Watch, SDC may have engaged in an unethical practice called extreme self-citation to boost its citation score, a common but fallible measure of research quality, and propel itself to the top of these and other ranking schemes.
