Dalmeet Singh Chawla
The OPCW’s never-ending fight to eliminate chemical weapons
In 1997, the Chemical Weapons Convention—a first-of-its-kind global disarmament agreement—came into force. The treaty was championed by...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 25
- 1 min
Survey Finds Cheating Is Common in Graduate School
According to the results of a survey published last month, more than 16% of recipients of a prestigious graduate research fellowship in...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 17
- 1 min
Dedicated committee needed to tackle research reproducibility problems in the UK
A report released by the science, innovation and technology committee of the UK House of Commons is recommending that a subcommittee...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 9
- 1 min
Prominent nanoscientist retracts paper after PhD students flagged error
The authors of a 2018 nanoscience paper have retracted the article after three doctoral students highlighted a problem with its methods....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 9
- 1 min
Researchers who agree to manipulate citations are more likely to get their papers published
Researchers who are coerced by editors into adding superfluous citations in their manuscripts are more likely to succeed in publishing...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 9
- 1 min
Chemist in India loses seven papers, blames outsourcing of images
A chemistry researcher in India has had seven of his papers retracted after the publisher concluded that some images in the papers showed...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 21
- 1 min
New tool detects papers originating from paper mills
A new tool has been launched to detect studies that are the product of paper mills, which churn out subpar scientific papers that...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 21
- 1 min
Earthquake destroyed data, claims Japanese prof found to have faked results
A professor of cell biology in Japan faked data in an influential cancer study published in Nature Neuroscience in 2019, according to an...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Highly-cited chemist is suspended for claiming to be affiliated with Russian and Saudi universities
The University of Córdoba has suspended a highly-cited chemist for 13 years after finding that he had claimed to be affiliated with a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Five years after saying it won’t retract Macchiarini paper, journal does so
In 2018, the journal Respiration was adamant that it wouldn’t retract a 2015 paper co-authored by once-respected transplant surgeon Paolo...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 26
- 1 min
Exclusive: Australia space scientist made up data, probe finds
A space scientist formerly based at the University of Sydney made up data in an unpublished manuscript, an investigation by the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 15
- 1 min
‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature
A free-to-use tool designed to detect statistical errors is significantly reducing the number of mistakes creeping into papers, suggests...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 8
- 1 min
‘Elite university’ strategies might boost profile and rankings — but at what cost?
In this week's Nature, a new editorial comment article argues that some country's strategies of boosting the profiles and rankings of a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 7
- 1 min
French National Center for Scientific Research faulted over chemistry lab misconduct probe
Research integrity experts have written an open letter to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) urging it to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 6
- 1 min
A Conversation with Renee Wegrzyn, inaugural director of ARPA-H
In September 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden appointed applied biologist Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of the Advanced Research...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Chemistry bots under threat from changes to Twitter’s API rules
More than a dozen chemistry bots that rely on Twitter’s application programming interface (API) to function could become defunct if the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 24
- 1 min
US Office of Research Integrity received 269 allegations of research misconduct last fiscal year
The US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) received a total of 269 complaints of alleged research misconduct between Oct. 1, 2021 and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 24
- 1 min
‘Golden tickets’ on the cards for NSF grant reviewers
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is considering piloting a funding model under which grant peer reviewers are given ‘golden...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 20
- 1 min
US Office of Research Integrity appoints new director
Sheila Garrity, a prominent figure in the research integrity world, will join the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) as its permanent...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Elsevier journal under fire for rejecting paper that didn’t cite enough of its old papers
A scholarly journal run by the Dutch publishing giant Elsevier has come under scrutiny for rejecting a paper submitted for publication...
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