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‘Tainted kids,’ other odd phrases cropping up in autism studies
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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China sanctions hundreds of researchers following fraud investigation
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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How one US organization hopes to make retractions more visible
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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How can institutions and funders help to police questionable research practices?
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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8% of researchers in Dutch survey have falsified or fabricated data
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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Five online tools that aim to save researchers time and trouble
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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Hundreds of ‘predatory’ journals indexed on leading scholarly database
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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New bot flags scientific studies that cite retracted papers
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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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