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Mar 13
1 min

Big increase in research funding promised for UK

The UK chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has announced a boost to public funding for research and development, leaving many resea...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Feb 14
1 min

They Wanted Research Funding, So They Entered the Lottery

A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out-of-the-box. She entered a lottery. But she wasn’t buying scratch-off tickets promisin...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jan 30
1 min

Online platform allows researchers to claim credit for grant peer review

Publons, a website that allows peer reviewers to claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review. La...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Oct 15, 2019
1 min

Thousands of grant peer reviewers share concerns in global survey

Researchers spend around ten days every year reviewing other academics’ funding proposals, according to the largest ever survey of grant ...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Oct 1, 2019
1 min

Research on research gains steam

The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent ye...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jun 28, 2019
1 min

Concerns remain over European open-access proposal

On 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to d...

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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 f...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 17, 2019
1 min

‘Friendly’ reviewers rate grant applications more highly

Peer reviewers are four times more likely to give a grant application an "excellent" or "outstanding" score rather than a "poor" or "good...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 3, 2019
1 min

Effort to reproduce Brazilian research experiments set to begin

A project aiming to reproduce dozens of biochemistry experiments originally conducted in Brazil is set to commence this month. The full a...

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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, accor...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Mar 2, 2019
1 min

International collaboration yields less-novel research, study suggests

Researchers who collaborate with colleagues abroad may produce work that is less novel than those who have collaborators in the same coun...

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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 performa...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 19, 2018
1 min

Record-breaking grant may fuel autism drug development

A huge new international research collaboration may jump-start the race to develop therapies for autism. With more than 113 million euros...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jun 21, 2018
1 min

The Perils of Proposals

With its complex procedures, unknown evaluations and unconscious biases, applying for research funding is no mean feat. Some researchers ...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Feb 15, 2017
1 min

Gates Foundation strikes deal to allow its researchers to publish in Science journals

An unusual and perhaps precedent-setting deal will enable researchers funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to comply with a foun...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Dec 30, 2014
1 min

India’s major science funders join open-access push

Two major funders of scientific research, the departments of Biotechnology and Science & Technology, of India's Ministry of Science and T...

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Big increase in research funding promised for UK

They Wanted Research Funding, So They Entered the Lottery

Online platform allows researchers to claim credit for grant peer review

Thousands of grant peer reviewers share concerns in global survey

Research on research gains steam

Concerns remain over European open-access proposal

Study quantifies the growing traction of open access

‘Friendly’ reviewers rate grant applications more highly

Effort to reproduce Brazilian research experiments set to begin

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

International collaboration yields less-novel research, study suggests

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

Record-breaking grant may fuel autism drug development

The Perils of Proposals

Gates Foundation strikes deal to allow its researchers to publish in Science journals

India’s major science funders join open-access push