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Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First
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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P-hacking incident violated integrity, Dutch body finds
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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Improper publishing incentives in science put under microscope around the world
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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Millions of animals may be missing from scientific studies
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 f...
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New Office of Research Integrity leaders look to bring US agency into the digital age
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 Hea...
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Top officials at Russian universities embroiled in plagiarism scandal
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 pred...
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The gift of paper authorship
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 w...
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Probe into leaked papers submitted to leading engineering conference
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 investigation...
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Warning over coronavirus and predatory journals
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 t...
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Thousands of researchers in Australia appear on editorial boards of 'predatory' journals
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 o...
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Junior researchers less likely to blow the whistle on research misconduct
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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A single ‘paper mill’ appears to have churned out 400 papers, sleuths find
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 1 min

A single ‘paper mill’ appears to have churned out 400 papers, sleuths find

Online sleuths have discovered what they suspect is a paper mill that has produced more than 400 scientific papers with potentially fabri...
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Questionable research practices are hurting junior researchers
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 26, 2020
  • 1 min

Questionable research practices are hurting junior researchers

A third of early-career researchers have had their work harmed by the questionable research practices of colleagues based at their instit...
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Russian journals retract more than 800 papers after ‘bombshell’ investigation
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 8, 2020
  • 1 min

Russian journals retract more than 800 papers after ‘bombshell’ investigation

Academic journals in Russia are retracting more than 800 papers following a probe into unethical publication practices by a commission ap...
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Quintet of study retractions rocks criminology community
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 26, 2019
  • 1 min

Quintet of study retractions rocks criminology community

Criminology researchers are retracting five studies that have sparked a bitter battle over potential scientific misconduct and issues of ...
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Senior Chinese research integrity official investigated for academic fraud
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 22, 2019
  • 1 min

Senior Chinese research integrity official investigated for academic fraud

The Chinese Academy of Engineering has launched an investigation into prominent Chinese immunologist Xuetao Cao, the president of Nankai ...
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Don’t let researchers recommend who reviews their work
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 22, 2019
  • 1 min

Don’t let researchers recommend who reviews their work

Why do some other funders and scholarly publishers still allow researchers to suggest reviewers to evaluate their work? Some funders and ...
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Two-thirds of researchers report ‘pressure to cite’ in Nature poll
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 1, 2019
  • 1 min

Two-thirds of researchers report ‘pressure to cite’ in Nature poll

An online poll answered by more than 4,300 Nature readers suggests that most researchers have felt pressured by peer reviewers to cite st...
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Researchers in Italy are increasingly citing researchers in Italy
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 19, 2019
  • 1 min

Researchers in Italy are increasingly citing researchers in Italy

Following the rollout of a controversial policy that makes the promotion of academics contingent on bibliometric success, scholars in Ita...
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Elsevier investigates hundreds of peer reviewers for manipulating citations
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 10, 2019
  • 1 min

Elsevier investigates hundreds of peer reviewers for manipulating citations

The Dutch publisher Elsevier is investigating hundreds of researchers whom it suspects of deliberately manipulating the peer-review proce...
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