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Improper publishing incentives in science put under microscope around the world
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 27, 2020
  • 1 min

Improper publishing incentives in science put under microscope around the world

Getting the measure of researchers and their work has long been a contentious subject, but the issue is receiving more attention in light...
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Does tweeting about research attract more citations?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • 1 min

Does tweeting about research attract more citations?

Tweeting about your research increases the number of citations it goes on to attract, according to a new analysis. But outside experts...
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Predatory-journal papers have little scientific impact
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 13, 2020
  • 1 min

Predatory-journal papers have little scientific impact

Papers published in ‘predatory’ journals attract little attention from scientists, and get cited much less than those in reputable...
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In decision certain to draw fire, journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender difference
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 1, 2019
  • 1 min

In decision certain to draw fire, journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender difference

In a move likely to attract criticism, a peer-reviewed journal has agreed to publish an Italian physicist’s highly contested analysis of...
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Russian science stays at home
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 10, 2019
  • 1 min

Russian science stays at home

Russia is lagging behind the global norm of cross-border, far-reaching science. A new study has found that researchers based in Russia...
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Researchers in Italy are increasingly citing researchers in Italy
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 19, 2019
  • 1 min

Researchers in Italy are increasingly citing researchers in Italy

Following the rollout of a controversial policy that makes the promotion of academics contingent on bibliometric success, scholars in...
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Elsevier investigates hundreds of peer reviewers for manipulating citations
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 10, 2019
  • 1 min

Elsevier investigates hundreds of peer reviewers for manipulating citations

The Dutch publisher Elsevier is investigating hundreds of researchers whom it suspects of deliberately manipulating the peer-review...
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Why Stellar Research Remains Under the Radar
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • May 22, 2019
  • 1 min

Why Stellar Research Remains Under the Radar

In 1985, Oxford University diabetes researcher David Matthews published a study in the journal Diabetologia about a computerised...
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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...
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Study quantifies the growing traction of open access
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 18, 2019
  • 1 min

Study quantifies the growing traction of open access

Researchers worldwide are taking an average of 472 days less to post their studies in online repositories due to mandates from research...
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Top UK funders don’t support most highly cited health researchers
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Mar 26, 2019
  • 1 min

Top UK funders don’t support most highly cited health researchers

Most UK-based scientists who penned the most highly research in the last decade are not funded by the country’s top health funders,...
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Open-access row prompts editorial board of Elsevier journal to resign
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 14, 2019
  • 1 min

Open-access row prompts editorial board of Elsevier journal to resign

The editorial board of an influential scientometrics journal — the Journal of Informetrics — has resigned in protest over the open-access...
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Indonesia’s scientists voice concerns about the country’s researcher ranking system
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 31, 2018
  • 1 min

Indonesia’s scientists voice concerns about the country’s researcher ranking system

Researchers in Indonesia are up in arms about a metric introduced in 2017 by the nation’s government to measure productivity and...
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Online tool breaks down physicists’ research interests
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 19, 2018
  • 1 min

Online tool breaks down physicists’ research interests

Terms like cosmologist, string theorist, or particle physicist rarely capture the true scope of a scientist’s work. A new website plans...
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New metrics rank physicists and their work
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 6, 2018
  • 1 min

New metrics rank physicists and their work

Two CERN theoretical physicists have taken a page out of Google’s playbook in an attempt to better measure the impact of scientists and...
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Italian scientists increase self-citations in response to promotion policy
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 4, 2018
  • 1 min

Italian scientists increase self-citations in response to promotion policy

Italian scientists have been citing themselves more often since a controversial law came into effect in 2010 demanding academics meet...
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Mismatch between citations and chemists’ expectations
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 5, 2018
  • 1 min

Mismatch between citations and chemists’ expectations

The studies chemistry researchers perceive to be the most important in their field are not always the ones that get cited the most,...
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What’s wrong with the JIF in 5 graphs
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 3, 2018
  • 1 min

What’s wrong with the JIF in 5 graphs

Since its launch around 40 years ago, the journal impact factor (JIF) has shaped academic behaviour. Originally presented by Eugene...
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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...
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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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