Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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....
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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...
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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...
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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
- 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...
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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...
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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
- 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...
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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
- 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...
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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...
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