Akbarov Nurislom

Research Integrity in Low-Resource Languages: Lessons from a Multilingual Plagiarism Detector for Central Asia

Since Resolution No. 836 of the Cabinet of Ministers (13 December 2024), every higher-education institution in Uzbekistan must check graduation projects and master's dissertations with an anti-plagiarism system that works in Uzbek, Karakalpak, Russian and English and detects para...

Digitalising Scholarly Publishing in Uzbekistan: An Integrated Ecosystem for Publication, Integrity and Indexing

Higher-education reform in Uzbekistan has increased the number of manuscripts that doctoral candidates and academic staff must publish, while the infrastructure that makes a manuscript findable, citable and checked for integrity remains thin. This paper reports a single-case stud...

Making Uzbek Science Visible: A National Scholarly Index as Infrastructure for Higher Education Reform

Uzbekistan's higher-education reform rewards publication in nationally recognised journals, yet the country has no open, harvestable index linking those journals' articles, identifiers and full texts, so most of the national research record cannot be seen, verified or counted. Th...