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
- Aug 18
- 1 min
New tool measures thoroughness of peer review reports
The level of detail of peer review reports is consistent across physical science journals regardless of the publications’ prominence,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 8
- 1 min
Swiss funder unveils new CV format to make grant evaluation fairer
Switzerland’s main research funder is set to roll out a ‘narrative’ CV format for grant applications this year, as part of a move to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 6
- 1 min
Japan launches preprint server — but will scientists use it?
Japan has become the latest country to open an online preprint repository, in a bid to boost international exposure to the country’s...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 6
- 1 min
Russian website peddles authorships linked to reputable journals
Since 2019, Anna Abalkina has been monitoring a website that offers an illicit way for scientists to burnish their CVs. The site,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Plan P: Can institutions facilitate open access?
Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 1
- 1 min
Clarivate Analytics’s new author profiles tool to include peer review activity
Clarivate Analytics, the UK-based firm that owns the scholarly database Web of Science (WoS), has begun automatically generating author...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 2, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers spent an estimated 130 million hours peer-reviewing papers in 2020
In 2020, researchers globally spent an estimated 130 million hours – equivalent to 15,000 years – peer-reviewing manuscripts for...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 25, 2021
- 1 min
Record number of first-time observers get Hubble telescope time
An unprecedented number of first-time investigators have secured viewing time on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in the years since the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 27, 2021
- 1 min
Editors give green light to patients co-authoring manuscripts
Most editors-in-chiefs of scholarly journals have no objection to patients being included as co-authors of research papers when they...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 11, 2021
- 1 min
Peer-reviewers twice as likely to accept research conducted on men than the same research on women
Research with male experimental participants is almost twice as likely to be accepted during peer review as the same research conducted...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 6, 2021
- 1 min
Swiss funder draws lots to make grant decisions
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) , Switzerland’s largest government research-funding agency, has started using a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
Research misconduct findings, 15-year publishing ban in graduate student suicide case
Several researchers have been sanctioned following an investigation into alleged peer-review manipulation among attendees at a prominent...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 13, 2021
- 1 min
Why researchers created a database of half a million journal editors
A new database containing information about nearly half a million journal editors' names, affiliations and editorial roles launched in a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
UK funding agency hack could be ‘legally and intellectually significant’
A recent hack of systems of the umbrella grant funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has rattled researchers but details of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 20, 2021
- 1 min
Zoom fatigue saps grant reviewers’ attention
Grant reviewers for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) report shorter attention spans and lower engagement during video...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 12, 2021
- 1 min
AI tools measure rigour of COVID-19 preprints
Six AI tools programmed to automatically measure the rigour and reproducibility of COVID-19 preprints are reporting major gaps when it...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First
What should science do about conflicts of interest? When they are identified, they become an obstacle to objectivity — a key tenet and a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min
Institute of Physics implements double-blind peer review
The UK’s Institute of Physics is making double-blind peer review the default process by the end of 2021 for authors publishing in Reports...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 9, 2020
- 1 min
Probe into leaked papers submitted to leading engineering conference
The close-knit computer engineering community has been rocked to its foundations by a scandal that has so far sparked three...
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