Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 6
- 1 min
Unearned authorship pervades science
Almost 70% of researchers based in Europe say that they have been involved in projects in the past three years that listed authors who...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
Why children have to wait years for new drugs
A shortage of participants means that paediatric trials take longer and there is less financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
AI system not yet ready to help peer reviewers assess research quality
Researchers tasked with examining whether artificial intelligence (AI) technology could assist in the peer review of journal articles...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 13, 2022
- 1 min
The chemist who uses paper devices to spot fake and substandard drugs
For years, chemist Marya Lieberman of the University of Notre Dame and her team have been developing analytical paper diagnostics that...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 8, 2022
- 1 min
Journals to trial tool that automatically flags reproducibility and transparency issues in papers
A tool using natural language processing and machine learning algorithms is being rolled-out on journals to automatically flag...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
A road map aims to improve the lives of junior scientists in Europe
Institutions and organizations across Europe have launched a manifesto that recommends ways to ameliorate the financial situations,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 14, 2022
- 1 min
Should AI have a role in assessing research quality?
Efforts to ease the workloads of peer reviewers by using artificial intelligence (AI) are gathering pace — with one country’s main...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 20, 2022
- 1 min
The case for lotteries as a tiebreaker of quality in research funding
Earlier this month, the British Academy, the United Kingdom’s national academy for humanities and social sciences, introduced a lottery...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
French inquiry censures lab that promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid
A probe instigated by the French health ministry has found ‘serious malfunctions’ in the laboratory of Didier Raoult, a microbiologist...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Citation data are now open, but that’s far from enough
A few years ago, researchers would find considerable hurdles when attempting to study citation patterns to illuminate trends in a field,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Five-year campaign breaks science’s citation paywall
The more than 60 million scientific-journal papers indexed by Crossref — the database that registers DOIs, or digital object identifiers,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 23, 2022
- 1 min
Author makes popular chemistry textbook free after discovering copyright loophole
The author of a popular organic chemistry textbook is making it freely available to students after learning about a loophole in his...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 18, 2022
- 1 min
New tool measures thoroughness of peer review reports
The level of detail of peer review reports is consistent across physical science journals regardless of the publications’ prominence,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
Protective treatment for Covid-19 makes minimal impact
There is limited uptake of Covid-19 treatments targeted at immunocompromised people and those who aren’t responsive to Covid-19 vaccines,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 26, 2022
- 1 min
Top Russian university officials’ predatory publishing record points to deeper malaise
Researchers based at Russian institutions are more likely to publish in predatory journals if their university leader already does so,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
A Conversation with Steve Trim
I spoke to Steve Trim, the founder of the firm Venomtech, about why he decided to create a company entirely focussed on finding drugs in...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 8, 2022
- 1 min
Swiss funder unveils new CV format to make grant evaluation fairer
Switzerland’s main research funder is set to roll out a ‘narrative’ CV format for grant applications this year, as part of a move to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 6, 2022
- 1 min
Japan launches preprint server — but will scientists use it?
Japan has become the latest country to open an online preprint repository, in a bid to boost international exposure to the country’s...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 27, 2022
- 1 min
Russian Academics Aim to Punish Colleagues Who Backed Ukraine Invasion
Some academic researchers in Russia are quietly working to prevent colleagues who have supported their country’s invasion of Ukraine from...
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