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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
AI system not yet ready to help peer reviewers assess research quality
Researchers tasked with examining whether artificial intelligence (AI) technology could assist in the peer review of journal articles...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
A road map aims to improve the lives of junior scientists in Europe
Institutions and organizations across Europe have launched a manifesto that recommends ways to ameliorate the financial situations,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 20, 2022
- 1 min
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
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Citation data are now open, but that’s far from enough
A few years ago, researchers would find considerable hurdles when attempting to study citation patterns to illuminate trends in a field,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Five-year campaign breaks science’s citation paywall
The more than 60 million scientific-journal papers indexed by Crossref — the database that registers DOIs, or digital object identifiers,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 6, 2022
- 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
- May 27, 2022
- 1 min
Russian Academics Aim to Punish Colleagues Who Backed Ukraine Invasion
Some academic researchers in Russia are quietly working to prevent colleagues who have supported their country’s invasion of Ukraine from...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 28, 2022
- 1 min
Tobacco publishing ban extended to researchers at industry-owned firms
A group of international respiratory societies has banned researchers associated with tobacco companies from publishing papers in their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 24, 2022
- 1 min
Royal Society report says there’s no silver bullet to fix ‘scientific misinformation’
There’s no quick and easy way to fix the problem of ’scientific misinformation’, argues a new report released by the Royal Society. As...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
The blurred line of responsibility between research offices and libraries
As libraries and research offices evolve with the complex and competitive demands of the research enterprise, tensions over their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers urge funders and institutions to crack down on false investigators
The illegal inclusion of false investigators on grant proposals and research papers should be classified as research misconduct,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
Q&A: Australia’s chief scientist proposes a centralized national plan for open access
Australia lags behind comparable research-intensive countries in Europe in the development of open-access policies, according to a recent...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
Australian institutions lag behind on open access adoption
Only half of Australia’s 40 universities have a formal policy on open access (OA), and the policies are vague and ineffectual, according...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 7, 2021
- 1 min
How can institutions and funders help to police questionable research practices?
A pilot study at universities and private and public funding agencies in Europe testing a new toolbox of topics aimed at helping...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
Chemists react to UK umbrella funding body’s new open access mandate
British umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 9, 2021
- 1 min
Scientists at odds on Utrecht University reforms to hiring and promotion criteria
Academia in the Netherlands has erupted in disagreement over the move by a Dutch university to stop considering journal impact factors...
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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 10, 2021
- 1 min
How the Centre for Journalology hopes to fix science
In 2014, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute launched the Center for Journalology with some internal funding, aiming to shed light on...
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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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