Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Most researchers are satisfied with peer review, survey says
Three in four researchers are satisfied with science’s quality control system, according to a new survey of more than 3,000 academics by...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 10, 2019
- 1 min
Elsevier investigates hundreds of peer reviewers for manipulating citations
The Dutch publisher Elsevier is investigating hundreds of researchers whom it suspects of deliberately manipulating the peer-review...
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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
- Jun 18, 2019
- 1 min
New database helps clarify journal policies
Trawling through the websites of academic journals to decipher their publication policies can be a laborious task. A new database aims to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 29, 2019
- 1 min
Junior researchers often ghostwrite peer reviews
Around half of the researchers participating in a new survey have admitted ghostwriting referee reports on behalf of senior faculty. The...
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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
- Feb 15, 2019
- 1 min
Rare trial of open peer review allays common concerns
A rare analysis of open peer review — in which reviews are posted alongside published papers — has overturned some common conceptions...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 8, 2018
- 1 min
Scientists struggle with confusing journal guidelines
Globally, more than two-thirds of researchers find it difficult to prepare manuscripts and to respond to peer-review comments, finds a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 1, 2018
- 1 min
Science’s Quality-Control Process Gets a Makeover
A series of reports published last month shed light on how fatigued researchers are from conducting peer review on each others’ work....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 19, 2018
- 1 min
Online tool breaks down physicists’ research interests
Terms like cosmologist, string theorist, or particle physicist rarely capture the true scope of a scientist’s work. A new website plans...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 18, 2018
- 1 min
Huge peer-review study reveals lack of women and non-Westerners
Women are inadequately represented as peer reviewers, journal editors and last authors of studies, according to an analysis of manuscript...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 6, 2018
- 1 min
Peer reviewers in developing nations are underrepresented, report suggests
Combined, scientists spend nearly 70 million hours peer reviewing manuscripts for scholarly journals every year, a new report says. But...
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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
- May 10, 2018
- 1 min
Physics reviewers are concise
Physicists can get wordy when describing their own work, but apparently they get straight to the point when providing feedback to others....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 20, 2018
- 1 min
Blockchain to help scholarly publishing fight fraud
A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 16, 2018
- 1 min
Iranian peer-review incident condemned
The Physics Society of Iran (PSI) has voiced concern over a recent case of faked peer review by an Iranian researcher. The full article...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 16, 2018
- 1 min
The undercover academic keeping tabs on ‘predatory’ publishing
When librarian Jeffrey Beall shut down his controversial blog listing potentially ‘predatory’ scholarly publishers and journals last...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 28, 2018
- 1 min
Researchers coy about complete review transparency
Publishing reviewers’ reports is likely to become more common, says Tony Ross-Hellauer, the author of a global survey, which found...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 26, 2017
- 1 min
Physicists cozy up to double-blind peer review
A black-box version of peer review in which the identities of both authors and reviewers of manuscripts are kept anonymous is receiving...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 30, 2017
- 1 min
Fake peer review hits RSC journals
Journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) — which also publishes Chemistry World — have today retracted five papers due to a...
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