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Jul 31
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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 22, 2015
1 min

'Living figures' make their debut

Neurobiologist Björn Brembs published his paper about how fruit flies walk in July last year. Figure 4 on his paper, however, has now bee...

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The gift of paper authorship

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

Hyperauthorship: global projects spark surge in thousand-author papers

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

Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database

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

Junior researchers often ghostwrite peer reviews

Springer Nature publishes chemistry book written entirely by machine

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

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

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

The secrets of Switzerland’s surprisingly high citations success

International collaborations growing exponentially

Female researchers add their superiors as authors

Local, not global, links boost productivity

Men cite themselves more than women do

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

Researchers wrestle with co-authorship

Digital badges aim to clear up politics of authorship

'Living figures' make their debut