Dalmeet Singh Chawla Jun 11, 20211 minPromoted physics studies are cited moreEditors spend a lot of time selecting papers to be highlighted in their pages and promoted by other means. But according to Manolis...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Apr 23, 20211 minPhysicists guardedly optimistic about UK’s new DARPA-like funding agencyPhysicists are cautiously optimistic about a new DARPA-like funding agency the UK is creating. Called the Advanced Research and Invention...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Sep 23, 20201 minInstitute of Physics implements double-blind peer reviewThe UK’s Institute of Physics is making double-blind peer review the default process by the end of 2021 for authors publishing in Reports...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Jul 9, 20201 minGraduate departments move away from GREsPhysics and Astronomy graduate schools are rapidly moving away from the GRE entrance exams amid concerns over their cost, accessibility...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla May 13, 20201 minDistributed 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...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Nov 1, 20191 minIn decision certain to draw fire, journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender differenceIn a move likely to attract criticism, a peer-reviewed journal has agreed to publish an Italian physicist’s highly contested analysis of...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Jun 28, 20191 minConcerns remain over European open-access proposalOn 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Dec 3, 20181 minQ&A: Physicist and record-breaking archer James MartinFlight shooting, a form of archery, is an ancient sport with a simple objective: launching arrows as far as possible. The details are...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Nov 2, 20181 minGuest artists at CERN illustrate the imperceptibleIt happens continuously. Speedy protons from space slam into molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, sparking reactions that produce, among...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Sep 19, 20181 minOnline tool breaks down physicists’ research interestsTerms like cosmologist, string theorist, or particle physicist rarely capture the true scope of a scientist’s work. A new website plans...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Jun 6, 20181 minNew metrics rank physicists and their workTwo CERN theoretical physicists have taken a page out of Google’s playbook in an attempt to better measure the impact of scientists and...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla May 10, 20181 minPhysics reviewers are concisePhysicists can get wordy when describing their own work, but apparently they get straight to the point when providing feedback to others....
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Mar 16, 20181 minIranian peer-review incident condemnedThe Physics Society of Iran (PSI) has voiced concern over a recent case of faked peer review by an Iranian researcher. The full article...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Nov 9, 20171 minNew astronomy journal keeps papers short and sweetAn unorthodox new astronomy journal is geared toward short, succinct updates of work in progress. Research Notes of the American...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Nov 1, 20171 minHow much self-promotion is enough?Tooting your horn can be good at times. For academics, it comes in the form of citing your own prior work in new studies. A new metric...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Oct 26, 20171 minPhysicists cozy up to double-blind peer reviewA black-box version of peer review in which the identities of both authors and reviewers of manuscripts are kept anonymous is receiving...
Dalmeet Singh Chawla Oct 4, 20171 minNew metric takes a crack at solving science’s credibility problemA newly proposed, citation-based metric assesses the veracity of scientific claims by evaluating the outcomes of subsequent replication...