Dalmeet Singh Chawla
One academic paper’s journey through the mill
In the summer of 2020, Anna Abalkina came across an advertisement online: a website was selling authorship of a chemistry paper that it...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 1
- 1 min
Women scientists are less likely than men to submit papers to high-impact journals
Women scientists are significantly less likely than men to submit papers to the prestigious journals Nature, Science, and the Proceedings...
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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
- 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
- Jan 6
- 1 min
Unearned authorship pervades science
Almost 70% of researchers based in Europe say that they have been involved in projects in the past three years that listed authors who...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 6, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers urge funders and institutions to crack down on false investigators
The illegal inclusion of false investigators on grant proposals and research papers should be classified as research misconduct,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 1, 2021
- 1 min
Women in science face authorship disputes more often than men
Katalin Karikó’s work on messenger RNA helped enable the development of the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. But early in...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 27, 2021
- 1 min
Editors give green light to patients co-authoring manuscripts
Most editors-in-chiefs of scholarly journals have no objection to patients being included as co-authors of research papers when they...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 10, 2021
- 1 min
How the Centre for Journalology hopes to fix science
In 2014, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute launched the Center for Journalology with some internal funding, aiming to shed light on...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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