Dalmeet Singh Chawla
French inquiry censures lab that promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid
A probe instigated by the French health ministry has found ‘serious malfunctions’ in the laboratory of Didier Raoult, a microbiologist...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 2
- 1 min
‘Tainted kids,’ other odd phrases cropping up in autism studies
In April, developmental neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop noticed strange phrases in a 2021 study of autistic children who interacted with...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
China sanctions hundreds of researchers following fraud investigation
China’s ministry of science and technology (MOST) has sanctioned hundreds of researchers after an investigation concluded that they had...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 8, 2021
- 1 min
How one US organization hopes to make retractions more visible
There’s ample evidence that retracted papers — 2,500 per year and growing — continue to attract citations that do not mention the fact...
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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
- Jul 22, 2021
- 1 min
8% of researchers in Dutch survey have falsified or fabricated data
An estimated 8% of scientists who participated in an anonymous survey of research practices at Dutch universities confessed to falsifying...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 23, 2021
- 1 min
Five online tools that aim to save researchers time and trouble
An expanding kit of digital tools and apps helps researchers automate certain processes and make others less burdensome. Nature Index has...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 8, 2021
- 1 min
Hundreds of ‘predatory’ journals indexed on leading scholarly database
The widely used academic database Scopus hosts papers from more than 300 potentially ‘predatory’ journals that have questionable...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 2, 2021
- 1 min
New bot flags scientific studies that cite retracted papers
An automated tool is targeting an issue that has plagued science for decades: retracted studies cited in newly published papers without...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First
What should science do about conflicts of interest? When they are identified, they become an obstacle to objectivity — a key tenet and a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 13, 2020
- 1 min
P-hacking incident violated integrity, Dutch body finds
The manipulation of statistics to make results more visible—known as p-hacking—should be classed as a violation of scientific integrity,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 27, 2020
- 1 min
Improper publishing incentives in science put under microscope around the world
Getting the measure of researchers and their work has long been a contentious subject, but the issue is receiving more attention in light...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 14, 2020
- 1 min
Millions of animals may be missing from scientific studies
Most animals used in biomedical experiments are not accounted for in published papers, a first-of-its-kind study suggests. The analysis...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 25, 2020
- 1 min
New Office of Research Integrity leaders look to bring US agency into the digital age
Keeping tabs on research misconduct and scientific fraud is the job of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in the US Department of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 13, 2020
- 1 min
Top officials at Russian universities embroiled in plagiarism scandal
Seventeen of the senior-most officials at Russian universities, known as rectors, have published plagiarized papers in international...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 31, 2020
- 1 min
The gift of paper authorship
A new study found that gift authorship is the most common type of research fraud in the United States. Yet it remains a common practice...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 9, 2020
- 1 min
Probe into leaked papers submitted to leading engineering conference
The close-knit computer engineering community has been rocked to its foundations by a scandal that has so far sparked three...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 23, 2020
- 1 min
Warning over coronavirus and predatory journals
With hundreds of questionable journals appearing and disappearing on a regular basis, researchers need to be vigilant in their approach...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Thousands of researchers in Australia appear on editorial boards of 'predatory' journals
More than 3,700 researchers based at Australian institutions — roughly 7% of the country’s academic community — as of mid-2019 appeared...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 11, 2020
- 1 min
Junior researchers less likely to blow the whistle on research misconduct
Early-career researchers are less likely to report research misconduct when they come across such activity than senior faculty, a survey...
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