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Gender gap in chemistry journals hasn’t improved in 15 years
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 23, 2020
  • 1 min

Gender gap in chemistry journals hasn’t improved in 15 years

The percentages of female first and corresponding authors of papers in chemistry journals haven’t increased in the last decade and a half...
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The gift of paper authorship
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 31, 2020
  • 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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There’s No Winter Break From ‘Publish or Perish’
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 19, 2019
  • 1 min

There’s No Winter Break From ‘Publish or Perish’

An analysis of submissions of manuscripts and peer review reports at two journals suggests that a significant number of researchers aroun...
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Hyperauthorship: global projects spark surge in thousand-author papers
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 13, 2019
  • 1 min

Hyperauthorship: global projects spark surge in thousand-author papers

The number of research papers with more than 1,000 authors has more than doubled in the past 5 years, a study of millions of articles ind...
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Science really does advance one funeral at a time, study suggests
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 12, 2019
  • 1 min

Science really does advance one funeral at a time, study suggests

‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents even...
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Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 19, 2019
  • 1 min

Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database

The world’s most-cited researchers, according to newly released data, are a curiously eclectic bunch. Nobel laureates and eminent polymat...
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Female authors listed on just 30% of recent UK academic research
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • May 15, 2019
  • 1 min

Female authors listed on just 30% of recent UK academic research

Women are listed as authors of just 30% of academic research from British universities, according to a major new ranking of higher educat...
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Junior researchers often ghostwrite peer reviews
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 29, 2019
  • 1 min

Junior researchers often ghostwrite peer reviews

Around half of the researchers participating in a new survey have admitted ghostwriting referee reports on behalf of senior faculty. The ...
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Springer Nature publishes chemistry book written entirely by machine
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 18, 2019
  • 1 min

Springer Nature publishes chemistry book written entirely by machine

Springer Nature, the world’s second biggest academic publisher, has published the first scholarly book authored entirely by machines. The...
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Assigning authorship for research papers can be tricky. These approaches can help
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 20, 2018
  • 1 min

Assigning authorship for research papers can be tricky. These approaches can help

Maybe you’ve heard about the cat who co-authored a scientific paper—but what about the dog? That would be Grandmother Liboiron, owned by ...
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Huge peer-review study reveals lack of women and non-Westerners
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 18, 2018
  • 1 min

Huge peer-review study reveals lack of women and non-Westerners

Women are inadequately represented as peer reviewers, journal editors and last authors of studies, according to an analysis of manuscript...
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United States and South Korea the world’s biggest science novelty acts
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 21, 2018
  • 1 min

United States and South Korea the world’s biggest science novelty acts

Scientists from the United States have the highest propensity to publish novel biomedical literature, finds an analysis of more than 20 m...
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The secrets of Switzerland’s surprisingly high citations success
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 24, 2018
  • 1 min

The secrets of Switzerland’s surprisingly high citations success

Switzerland appears to have three key factors for success in getting a surprisingly high proportion of its researchers’ articles cited in...
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International collaborations growing exponentially
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 19, 2018
  • 1 min

International collaborations growing exponentially

The number of international collaborations has tripled in the past fifteen years, reveals an analysis of more than 10 million papers trac...
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Female researchers add their superiors as authors
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 15, 2017
  • 1 min

Female researchers add their superiors as authors

One in three scholars across a wide range of natural and social science fields admit to including unjustifiable co-authors to their publi...
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Local, not global, links boost productivity
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 4, 2017
  • 1 min

Local, not global, links boost productivity

Scientists who collaborate locally publish more papers and are more highly cited than those who engage in long-distance relationships, fi...
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Men cite themselves more than women do
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 5, 2016
  • 1 min

Men cite themselves more than women do

Men cite their own papers 56% more than women on average, according to an analysis of 1.5 million studies published between 1779 and 2011...
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Researchers’ productivity hasn’t increased in a century, study suggests
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Mar 9, 2016
  • 1 min

Researchers’ productivity hasn’t increased in a century, study suggests

Are individual scientists now more productive early in their careers than 100 years ago? No, according to a large analysis of publication...
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Researchers wrestle with co-authorship
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 26, 2015
  • 1 min

Researchers wrestle with co-authorship

When it comes to authorship of scientific papers, questions over who should be the first author, who deserves the most credit and whether...
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Digital badges aim to clear up politics of authorship
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 28, 2015
  • 1 min

Digital badges aim to clear up politics of authorship

Publishers BioMed Central and Ubiquity Press have started using digital badges to clarify who did what to a scientific paper in a standar...
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