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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 11, 2021
- 1 min
Promoted physics studies are cited more
Editors spend a lot of time selecting papers to be highlighted in their pages and promoted by other means. But according to Manolis...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 23, 2021
- 1 min
Physicists guardedly optimistic about UK’s new DARPA-like funding agency
Physicists are cautiously optimistic about a new DARPA-like funding agency the UK is creating. Called the Advanced Research and Invention...
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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
Graduate departments move away from GREs
Physics and Astronomy graduate schools are rapidly moving away from the GRE entrance exams amid concerns over their cost, accessibility...
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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
- Nov 1, 2019
- 1 min
In decision certain to draw fire, journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender difference
In a move likely to attract criticism, a peer-reviewed journal has agreed to publish an Italian physicist’s highly contested analysis of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 28, 2019
- 1 min
Concerns remain over European open-access proposal
On 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 3, 2018
- 1 min
Q&A: Physicist and record-breaking archer James Martin
Flight shooting, a form of archery, is an ancient sport with a simple objective: launching arrows as far as possible. The details are...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 2, 2018
- 1 min
Guest artists at CERN illustrate the imperceptible
It happens continuously. Speedy protons from space slam into molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, sparking reactions that produce, among...
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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
- Jun 6, 2018
- 1 min
New metrics rank physicists and their work
Two CERN theoretical physicists have taken a page out of Google’s playbook in an attempt to better measure the impact of scientists and...
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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 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
- Nov 9, 2017
- 1 min
New astronomy journal keeps papers short and sweet
An unorthodox new astronomy journal is geared toward short, succinct updates of work in progress. Research Notes of the American...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 1, 2017
- 1 min
How 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...
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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
- Oct 4, 2017
- 1 min
New metric takes a crack at solving science’s credibility problem
A newly proposed, citation-based metric assesses the veracity of scientific claims by evaluating the outcomes of subsequent replication...
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