Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 19, 2020
- 1 min
Royal Society of Chemistry releases plan to diversify academic publishing
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released its “framework for action” to improve the diversity of its editors, peer-reviewers, and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 13, 2020
- 1 min
Distributed peer review passes test for allocating telescope slots
'Distributed peer review' helps take the burden off peer reviewers reviewing applications for allocating telescope time slots by putting...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Bias against women absent in peer review, analysis finds
Manuscripts authored by women and men are treated similarly during peer review, finds a new study of more than 760,000 reviews of nearly...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 8, 2020
- 1 min
Publisher expresses reservations about hydroxychloroquine study it printed
The International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) has distanced itself from a recent study published by its own journal,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 7, 2020
- 1 min
Journal peer review policies attract further scrutiny
A new database aiming to clarify how peer review is conducted at different scholarly journals launched in March. The full article was...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 14, 2020
- 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...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 30, 2020
- 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....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 19, 2019
- 1 min
There’s No Winter Break From ‘Publish or Perish’
An analysis of submissions of manuscripts and peer review reports at two journals suggests that a significant number of researchers...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
Don’t let researchers recommend who reviews their work
Why do some other funders and scholarly publishers still allow researchers to suggest reviewers to evaluate their work? Some funders and...
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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 4, 2019
- 1 min
Does peer review make scientists use more cautious language?
The language found in research papers isn’t more carefully crafted language after peer review but it does include more on the potential...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
Two-thirds of researchers report ‘pressure to cite’ in Nature poll
An online poll answered by more than 4,300 Nature readers suggests that most researchers have felt pressured by peer reviewers to cite...
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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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