Dalmeet Singh Chawla
The case for lotteries as a tiebreaker of quality in research funding
Earlier this month, the British Academy, the United Kingdom’s national academy for humanities and social sciences, introduced a lottery...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 25
- 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
- Aug 9, 2021
- 1 min
Scientists at odds on Utrecht University reforms to hiring and promotion criteria
Academia in the Netherlands has erupted in disagreement over the move by a Dutch university to stop considering journal impact factors...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 15, 2021
- 1 min
Microsoft Academic Graph is being discontinued. What’s next?
Bibliometricians and information scientists who study the scholarly literature as a whole have responded with dismay to Microsoft’s...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 11, 2021
- 1 min
Promoted physics studies are cited more
Editors spend a lot of time selecting papers to be highlighted in their pages and promoted by other means. But according to Manolis...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 7, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers’ publication rates don’t decline as they age
On average, senior academics publish papers at around the same rate as their junior colleagues, and produce significantly more books and...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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