Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Retracted chemistry studies most often plagued with plagiarism
More than 40% of chemistry papers retracted in the last two years were pulled because of plagiarism, according to a new study. The next...
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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
- Feb 18, 2019
- 1 min
Chemistry student to face trial for allegedly poisoning roommate with thallium
A chemistry student who allegedly poisoned his roommate with highly toxic thallium will face trial and has had his bail raised to $2.5...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 11, 2018
- 1 min
Graduate student gets prison sentence for poisoning colleague
A former chemistry PhD candidate at Queen’s University in Canada who confessed to poisoning a colleague has been sentenced to seven years...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 11, 2018
- 1 min
BBC Science in Action: Publishers vs ResearchGate lawsuit
Scholarly publishers Elsevier and the American Chemical Society have filed a lawsuit against ResearchGate, an academic social networking...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 9, 2018
- 1 min
Elsevier and American Chemical Society escalate legal fight with academic networking site
The American Chemical Society (ACS) and publishing giant Elsevier have filed a second lawsuit against ResearchGate, alleging mass...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 20, 2018
- 1 min
Chemists criticise mooted shutdown of 3D visualisation tools
Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational...
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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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 6, 2017
- 1 min
Court demands that search engines and internet service providers block Sci-Hub
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has won a lawsuit it filed in June against Sci-Hub, a website providing illicit free access to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 6, 2017
- 1 min
Publishers take ResearchGate to court, alleging massive copyright infringement
Scholarly publishing giants Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a lawsuit in Germany against ResearchGate, a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 7, 2017
- 1 min
American Chemical Society demands $4.8 million in damages from Sci-Hub
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has demanded $4.8 million (£3.7 million) in damages from Sci-Hub, a website that illegally provides...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 30, 2017
- 1 min
Fake peer review hits RSC journals
Journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) — which also publishes Chemistry World — have today retracted five papers due to a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 3, 2017
- 1 min
Over 90% of chemistry literature freely available at pirate site
More than 92% of chemistry journal papers – most of which are paywalled – are available for free from pirate site Sci-Hub, an analysis...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 5, 2017
- 1 min
American Chemical Society files lawsuit against pirate site
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has filed a lawsuit against a website that illegally bypasses paywalls to provide free access to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 20, 2017
- 1 min
Taking on chemistry's reproducibility problem
Not a week passes without reproducibility in science – or the lack of it – hitting the headlines. Although much of the criticism is...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 18, 2016
- 1 min
Chemistry group throws out election results after fears of vote rigging
Members of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) are reacting with puzzlement and shock after learning that the results of...
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