Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Chemistry bots under threat from changes to Twitter’s API rules
More than a dozen chemistry bots that rely on Twitter’s application programming interface (API) to function could become defunct if the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Confused by open-access policies? These tools can help
Funding-agency policies mandating that scientific papers and data are made publicly available have helped to drive the adoption of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 14, 2022
- 1 min
Should AI have a role in assessing research quality?
Efforts to ease the workloads of peer reviewers by using artificial intelligence (AI) are gathering pace — with one country’s main...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 18, 2022
- 1 min
New tool measures thoroughness of peer review reports
The level of detail of peer review reports is consistent across physical science journals regardless of the publications’ prominence,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 1, 2022
- 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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 24, 2022
- 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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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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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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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
- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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