Dalmeet Singh Chawla
The OPCW’s never-ending fight to eliminate chemical weapons
In 1997, the Chemical Weapons Convention—a first-of-its-kind global disarmament agreement—came into force. The treaty was championed by...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 17
- 1 min
Dedicated committee needed to tackle research reproducibility problems in the UK
A report released by the science, innovation and technology committee of the UK House of Commons is recommending that a subcommittee...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 9
- 1 min
Researchers who agree to manipulate citations are more likely to get their papers published
Researchers who are coerced by editors into adding superfluous citations in their manuscripts are more likely to succeed in publishing...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 21
- 1 min
New tool detects papers originating from paper mills
A new tool has been launched to detect studies that are the product of paper mills, which churn out subpar scientific papers that...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 8
- 1 min
‘Elite university’ strategies might boost profile and rankings — but at what cost?
In this week's Nature, a new editorial comment article argues that some country's strategies of boosting the profiles and rankings of a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 6
- 1 min
A Conversation with Renee Wegrzyn, inaugural director of ARPA-H
In September 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden appointed applied biologist Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of the Advanced Research...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Chemistry bots under threat from changes to Twitter’s API rules
More than a dozen chemistry bots that rely on Twitter’s application programming interface (API) to function could become defunct if the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 24
- 1 min
‘Golden tickets’ on the cards for NSF grant reviewers
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is considering piloting a funding model under which grant peer reviewers are given ‘golden...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Elsevier journal under fire for rejecting paper that didn’t cite enough of its old papers
A scholarly journal run by the Dutch publishing giant Elsevier has come under scrutiny for rejecting a paper submitted for publication...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 10
- 1 min
US funders must do more to ensure research reliability
The three largest basic-research funders in the United States are under the spotlight as a recent report from the country's Government...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Confused by open-access policies? These tools can help
Funding-agency policies mandating that scientific papers and data are made publicly available have helped to drive the adoption of...
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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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