Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Aug 13, 2020
- 1 min
Top officials at Russian universities embroiled in plagiarism scandal
Seventeen of the senior-most officials at Russian universities, known as rectors, have published plagiarized papers in international...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 23, 2020
- 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...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 11, 2020
- 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, 2020
- 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...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 26, 2020
- 1 min
Questionable research practices are hurting junior researchers
A third of early-career researchers have had their work harmed by the questionable research practices of colleagues based at their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
Senior Chinese research integrity official investigated for academic fraud
The Chinese Academy of Engineering has launched an investigation into prominent Chinese immunologist Xuetao Cao, the president of Nankai...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 11, 2018
- 1 min
UK universities fall short on reporting misconduct investigations
The United Kingdom should establish a committee to monitor efforts by the nation’s universities to properly conduct misconduct...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 20, 2018
- 1 min
Blockchain to help scholarly publishing fight fraud
A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 16, 2018
- 1 min
Iranian peer-review incident condemned
The Physics Society of Iran (PSI) has voiced concern over a recent case of faked peer review by an Iranian researcher. The full article...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 31, 2017
- 1 min
Singapore university revokes second researcher’s PhD in misconduct fallout
A university in Singapore has revoked a second researcher's PhD following a major misconduct scandal. The full story was published at...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 23, 2016
- 1 min
Biologist’s research under investigation in Sweden after being questioned on PubPeer
The University of Gothenburg in Sweden is investigating several papers co-authored by biologist Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson after they...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 25, 2016
- 1 min
Cyberterrorism paper under attack for plagiarizing from multiple sources
A paper about combating cyberterrorism is coming under fire after allegations of plagiarism sparked on social media. The paper, which was...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 9, 2016
- 1 min
Sparks fly in Finland over misconduct investigation
Researchers in Finland are criticizing an investigation by VTT Technical Research Centre into one of its scientists. Kai Simons, who...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 13, 2015
- 1 min
Can the vocabulary of deceit reveal fraudulent studies?
A new linguistic comparison of fraudulent scientific papers with sound manuscripts reveals that dishonest papers have their own literary...
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