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5 days ago
1 min

The gift of paper authorship

A new study found that gift authorship is the most common type of research fraud in the United States. Yet it remains a common practice w...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 23
1 min

It’s Time to Get Serious About Research Fraud

I wrote an opinion article for Undark Magazine arguing that different countries need to get more serious about dealing with research frau...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 14
1 min

Does hydroxychloroquine still have a role to play in this pandemic?

Hydroxychloroquine has had a busy few months. After being repeatedly endorsed by US President Donald Trump as a treatment for Covid-19, t...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 9
1 min

This tool is saving universities millions of dollars in journal subscriptions

In April, when the State University of New York (SUNY) system canceled a big subscription deal with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier in fa...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 9
1 min

Graduate departments move away from GREs

Physics and Astronomy graduate schools are rapidly moving away from the GRE entrance exams amid concerns over their cost, accessibility a...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 9
1 min

Probe into leaked papers submitted to leading engineering conference

The close-knit computer engineering community has been rocked to its foundations by a scandal that has so far sparked three investigation...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jun 26
1 min

Does tweeting about research attract more citations?

Tweeting about your research increases the number of citations it goes on to attract, according to a new analysis. But outside experts ar...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jun 23
1 min

Warning over coronavirus and predatory journals

With hundreds of questionable journals appearing and disappearing on a regular basis, researchers need to be vigilant in their approach t...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jun 19
1 min

Royal Society of Chemistry releases plan to diversify academic publishing

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released its “framework for action” to improve the diversity of its editors, peer-reviewers, and...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jun 8
1 min

Critiqued coronavirus simulation gets thumbs up from code-checking efforts

“Totally unreliable.” “A buggy mess.” Over the past month, software engineers have sharply criticized the code underpinning an influentia...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

May 13
1 min

Distributed peer review passes test for allocating telescope slots

'Distributed peer review' helps take the burden off peer reviewers reviewing applications for allocating telescope time slots by putting ...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 15
1 min

Bias against women absent in peer review, analysis finds

Manuscripts authored by women and men are treated similarly during peer review, finds a new study of more than 760,000 reviews of nearly ...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 15
1 min

UK seeks to scale-up Covid-19 testing but large gaps in capabilities remain

The UK is aiming to drastically scale up Covid-19 testing of its population, with health secretary Matt Hancock saying the country plans ...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 15
1 min

Thousands of researchers in Australia appear on editorial boards of 'predatory' journals

More than 3,700 researchers based at Australian institutions — roughly 7% of the country’s academic community — as of mid-2019 appeared o...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 8
1 min

Publisher expresses reservations about hydroxychloroquine study it printed

The International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) has distanced itself from a recent study published by its own journal, whi...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 7
1 min

Journal peer review policies attract further scrutiny

A new database aiming to clarify how peer review is conducted at different scholarly journals launched in March. The full article was pub...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Mar 18
1 min

Digital badges aren’t enough incentive for researchers to share their data

Online badges don’t motivate researchers to share their data when submitting to a medical journal, the first ever randomised controlled t...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Mar 13
1 min

Big increase in research funding promised for UK

The UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a boost to public funding for research and development, leaving many resea...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Mar 11
1 min

Junior researchers less likely to blow the whistle on research misconduct

Early-career researchers are less likely to report research misconduct when they come across such activity than senior faculty, a survey ...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Feb 27
1 min

A single ‘paper mill’ appears to have churned out 400 papers, sleuths find

Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabri...

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The gift of paper authorship

It’s Time to Get Serious About Research Fraud

Does hydroxychloroquine still have a role to play in this pandemic?

This tool is saving universities millions of dollars in journal subscriptions

Graduate departments move away from GREs

Probe into leaked papers submitted to leading engineering conference

Does tweeting about research attract more citations?

Warning over coronavirus and predatory journals

Royal Society of Chemistry releases plan to diversify academic publishing

Critiqued coronavirus simulation gets thumbs up from code-checking efforts

Distributed peer review passes test for allocating telescope slots

Bias against women absent in peer review, analysis finds

UK seeks to scale-up Covid-19 testing but large gaps in capabilities remain

Thousands of researchers in Australia appear on editorial boards of 'predatory' journals

Publisher expresses reservations about hydroxychloroquine study it printed

Journal peer review policies attract further scrutiny

Digital badges aren’t enough incentive for researchers to share their data

Big increase in research funding promised for UK

Junior researchers less likely to blow the whistle on research misconduct

A single ‘paper mill’ appears to have churned out 400 papers, sleuths find