OSF Preprints | Title: Rebuttal to An Article Published in Current Science that Claims Indian researchers spent 17 Million USD on Article Processing Charges (APC) for gold Open Access (OA) articles in 2020

"Title: Publications in gold open access and article processing charge expenditure: evidence from Indian scholarly output. Published in Current Science Volume 125, Issue 10, 25 November, 2023 The article in question claims that Indian researchers spent 17 Million USD on Article Processing Charges (APC) for gold Open Access (OA) articles in 2020. In this rebuttal, we show that the authors might have made multiple errors and need to redo their calculations. Given how widely the media article reporting on this paper was shared, it is imperative that the paper is retracted or a correction is issued by the authors and the journal."