Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 18
- 1 min
Cancer progression and harmful bacteria tracked with next-generation sequencing
Next-generation sequencing can be used to continually assess and monitor risks in patients with leukaemia, a new proof-of-principle study...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 2
- 1 min
‘Tainted kids,’ other odd phrases cropping up in autism studies
In April, developmental neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop noticed strange phrases in a 2021 study of autistic children who interacted with...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 27
- 1 min
800 crystallography-related papers appear to stem from one paper mill
At least 800 research studies published in crystallography and exotic-chemistry journals originate from a paper mill, a new study...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 7
- 1 min
China grapples with lab safety following huge growth in student numbers
In 2016, an explosion involving hydrogen and oxygen at the University of Hawaii in Manoa shocked the scientific world after it led to a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 6
- 1 min
Russian website peddles authorships linked to reputable journals
Since 2019, Anna Abalkina has been monitoring a website that offers an illicit way for scientists to burnish their CVs. The site,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 25
- 1 min
How critics say a computer scientist in Spain artificially boosted his Google Scholar metrics
Want a higher h-index? Here’s a way — but be warned, it’s a method that will raise some eyebrows. Take the example of this computer...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 11
- 1 min
Physics papers authored by women are cited less than those by men
Physics research papers authored by women receive fewer citations than expected given the number of women who work in the field and the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Plan P: Can institutions facilitate open access?
Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...
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