Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Survey Finds Cheating Is Common in Graduate School
According to the results of a survey published last month, more than 16% of recipients of a prestigious graduate research fellowship in...
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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
- May 9
- 1 min
Chemist in India loses seven papers, blames outsourcing of images
A chemistry researcher in India has had seven of his papers retracted after the publisher concluded that some images in the papers showed...
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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
- Apr 21
- 1 min
Earthquake destroyed data, claims Japanese prof found to have faked results
A professor of cell biology in Japan faked data in an influential cancer study published in Nature Neuroscience in 2019, according to an...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Highly-cited chemist is suspended for claiming to be affiliated with Russian and Saudi universities
The University of Córdoba has suspended a highly-cited chemist for 13 years after finding that he had claimed to be affiliated with a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 26
- 1 min
Exclusive: Australia space scientist made up data, probe finds
A space scientist formerly based at the University of Sydney made up data in an unpublished manuscript, an investigation by the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 7
- 1 min
French National Center for Scientific Research faulted over chemistry lab misconduct probe
Research integrity experts have written an open letter to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) urging it to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 24
- 1 min
US Office of Research Integrity received 269 allegations of research misconduct last fiscal year
The US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) received a total of 269 complaints of alleged research misconduct between Oct. 1, 2021 and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 20
- 1 min
US Office of Research Integrity appoints new director
Sheila Garrity, a prominent figure in the research integrity world, will join the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) as its permanent...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 6
- 1 min
Unearned authorship pervades science
Almost 70% of researchers based in Europe say that they have been involved in projects in the past three years that listed authors who...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 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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