Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Citation data are now open, but that’s far from enough
A few years ago, researchers would find considerable hurdles when attempting to study citation patterns to illuminate trends in a field,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Five-year campaign breaks science’s citation paywall
The more than 60 million scientific-journal papers indexed by Crossref — the database that registers DOIs, or digital object identifiers,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 18, 2020
- 1 min
Digital badges aren’t enough incentive for researchers to share their data
Online badges don’t motivate researchers to share their data when submitting to a medical journal, the first ever randomised controlled...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 20, 2019
- 1 min
It’s Time to Lift the Veil on Peer Review
The job of a peer reviewer is thankless. Collectively, academics spend around 70 million hours every year evaluating each other’s...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 17, 2018
- 1 min
Most researchers have disclosed their results before publication
Over two thirds of researchers have released the results of at least one study they authored before the findings were formally published....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 14, 2017
- 1 min
Need a paper? Get a plug-in
A collection of web-browser plug-ins that trawl the web to find scholarly papers is making the scholarly literature more discoverable....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 8, 2017
- 1 min
Text-mining tool seeks out ‘hidden data’
Forgotten to free your data? A tool is searching out instances of locked online research data sets that are supposed to be public — and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 6, 2017
- 1 min
Now free: citation data from 14 million papers, and more might come
Consider this: A scientist publishes a study citing other papers. Those cited papers, in turn, cite studies that came before them. But...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 10, 2016
- 1 min
Web widget nudges scientists to share their data
A new web-based tool that promises to assist its users in requesting scientific data from authors of research papers launched in beta...
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