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Jul 31
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 9
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jun 23
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 15
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Mar 11
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Feb 27
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Feb 26
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jan 8
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Aug 19, 2019
1 min

Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database

The world’s most-cited researchers, according to newly released data, are a curiously eclectic bunch. Nobel laureates and eminent polymat...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 25, 2019
1 min

UK to set up research integrity committee by 2020

The UK is establishing a research integrity committee to better monitor how robustly the nation’s universities carry out research miscond...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 3, 2019
1 min

Singapore joins the rise of research integrity networks

Research integrity professionals in Singapore have responded to a high-profile case of research misconduct by launching a professional ne...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

May 30, 2019
1 min

Retracted chemistry studies most often plagued with plagiarism

More than 40% of chemistry papers retracted in the last two years were pulled because of plagiarism, according to a new study. The next m...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 3, 2019
1 min

Effort to reproduce Brazilian research experiments set to begin

A project aiming to reproduce dozens of biochemistry experiments originally conducted in Brazil is set to commence this month. The full a...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 11, 2018
1 min

UK universities fall short on reporting misconduct investigations

The United Kingdom should establish a committee to monitor efforts by the nation’s universities to properly conduct misconduct investigat...

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The gift of paper authorship

Probe into leaked papers submitted to leading engineering conference

Warning over coronavirus and predatory journals

Thousands of researchers in Australia appear on editorial boards of 'predatory' journals

Junior researchers less likely to blow the whistle on research misconduct

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

Questionable research practices are hurting junior researchers

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

Quintet of study retractions rocks criminology community

Senior Chinese research integrity official investigated for academic fraud

Don’t let researchers recommend who reviews their work

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

Researchers in Italy are increasingly citing researchers in Italy

Elsevier investigates hundreds of peer reviewers for manipulating citations

Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database

UK to set up research integrity committee by 2020

Singapore joins the rise of research integrity networks

Retracted chemistry studies most often plagued with plagiarism

Effort to reproduce Brazilian research experiments set to begin

UK universities fall short on reporting misconduct investigations