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Clarivate Analytics’s new author profiles tool to include peer review activity
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 1
  • 1 min

Clarivate Analytics’s new author profiles tool to include peer review activity

Clarivate Analytics, the UK-based firm that owns the scholarly database Web of Science (WoS), has begun automatically generating author...
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Massive open index of scholarly papers launches
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 24
  • 1 min

Massive open index of scholarly papers launches

An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and...
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The future of librarianship
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 30, 2021
  • 1 min

The future of librarianship

Libraries need to become more user-friendly and to meet the demand of their patrons for digital services, according to a new survey...
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Cassyni aims to make online seminars more findable and citable
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 28, 2021
  • 1 min

Cassyni aims to make online seminars more findable and citable

A new online tool, Cassyni, aims to help academics run and keep track of research seminars worldwide. Its creators say that it will also...
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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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Microsoft Academic Graph is being discontinued. What’s next?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 15, 2021
  • 1 min

Microsoft Academic Graph is being discontinued. What’s next?

Bibliometricians and information scientists who study the scholarly literature as a whole have responded with dismay to Microsoft’s...
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Frosty reception for algorithm that predicts research papers' impact
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • May 21, 2021
  • 1 min

Frosty reception for algorithm that predicts research papers' impact

For years, researchers have been trying to find formulae that can accurately predict the future impact of scholarly papers. The latest...
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Why researchers created a database of half a million journal editors
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 13, 2021
  • 1 min

Why researchers created a database of half a million journal editors

A new database containing information about nearly half a million journal editors' names, affiliations and editorial roles launched in a...
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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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AI tools measure rigour of COVID-19 preprints
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 12, 2021
  • 1 min

AI tools measure rigour of COVID-19 preprints

Six AI tools programmed to automatically measure the rigour and reproducibility of COVID-19 preprints are reporting major gaps when it...
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This tool is saving universities millions of dollars in journal subscriptions
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 9, 2020
  • 1 min

This tool is saving universities millions of dollars in journal subscriptions

In April, when the State University of New York (SUNY) system canceled a big subscription deal with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier in...
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Software searches out reproducibility issues in scientific papers
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 22, 2020
  • 1 min

Software searches out reproducibility issues in scientific papers

Researchers are getting better at communicating science in a rigorous and reproducible way, according to a text-mining analysis of around...
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New database helps clarify journal policies
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 18, 2019
  • 1 min

New database helps clarify journal policies

Trawling through the websites of academic journals to decipher their publication policies can be a laborious task. A new database aims to...
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Online tool breaks down physicists’ research interests
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 19, 2018
  • 1 min

Online tool breaks down physicists’ research interests

Terms like cosmologist, string theorist, or particle physicist rarely capture the true scope of a scientist’s work. A new website plans...
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Can automated tools reliably rate research reproducibility?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 8, 2018
  • 1 min

Can automated tools reliably rate research reproducibility?

Recently the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited research proposals on developing automated tools...
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Chemists criticise mooted shutdown of 3D visualisation tools
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 20, 2018
  • 1 min

Chemists criticise mooted shutdown of 3D visualisation tools

Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational...
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Physics reviewers are concise
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • May 10, 2018
  • 1 min

Physics reviewers are concise

Physicists can get wordy when describing their own work, but apparently they get straight to the point when providing feedback to others....
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Blockchain to help scholarly publishing fight fraud
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Mar 20, 2018
  • 1 min

Blockchain to help scholarly publishing fight fraud

A new publishing system that uses the underlying technology behind the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin promises to solve some of...
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Online tool calculates reproducibility scores of PubMed papers
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 22, 2018
  • 1 min

Online tool calculates reproducibility scores of PubMed papers

A new online tool unveiled 19 January measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that...
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Online tools enable unprecedented access to science research
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 21, 2017
  • 1 min

Online tools enable unprecedented access to science research

This year has been an interesting one in the world of scholarly publishing. It has seen lawsuits against websites illegally or illicitly...
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