Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Crossref acquires Retraction Watch Database
Crossref, an open registry of unique identifiers for scholarly metadata, has acquired the Retraction Watch database, which houses records...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 13
- 1 min
Former Cornell scientists made up data in 12 research studies
Researchers formerly based at Weill Cornell Medical College, which is part of Cornell University, made up data in 12 published research...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 1
- 1 min
One academic paper’s journey through the mill
In the summer of 2020, Anna Abalkina came across an advertisement online: a website was selling authorship of a chemistry paper that it...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 29
- 1 min
Flawed chemistry papers can take more than a year to be retracted
Almost 59% of the chemistry papers retracted in the last two decades were pulled due to research misconduct, and the process often took...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Nick Wise, Scientific Sleuth and Fluid Dynamics Researcher
Alongside his research in engineering and fluid dynamics at the University of Cambridge, Nick Wise has what he calls a “weird hobby.”...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 12
- 1 min
Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza retracts another study
Gregg L. Semenza, a professor of genetic medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who won the Nobel Prize in...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 9
- 1 min
Prominent nanoscientist retracts paper after PhD students flagged error
The authors of a 2018 nanoscience paper have retracted the article after three doctoral students highlighted a problem with its methods....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 9
- 1 min
Chemist in India loses seven papers, blames outsourcing of images
A chemistry researcher in India has had seven of his papers retracted after the publisher concluded that some images in the papers showed...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Five years after saying it won’t retract Macchiarini paper, journal does so
In 2018, the journal Respiration was adamant that it wouldn’t retract a 2015 paper co-authored by once-respected transplant surgeon Paolo...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 7
- 1 min
French National Center for Scientific Research faulted over chemistry lab misconduct probe
Research integrity experts have written an open letter to the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) urging it to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 27, 2022
- 1 min
800 crystallography-related papers appear to stem from one paper mill
At least 800 research studies published in crystallography and exotic-chemistry journals originate from a paper mill, a new study...
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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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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 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...
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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
- 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...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 23, 2018
- 1 min
"Loss Of Confidence Project" Prods Scientists to Do the Right Thing
I spoke to Heather Goldstone of Living Lab Radio about the Loss of Confidence project, which I recently wrote a feature article about for...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 2, 2018
- 1 min
Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That.
Many areas of science are facing questions over the reproducibility of findings reported in scholarly literature. Researchers haven't...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 16, 2018
- 1 min
Iranian peer-review incident condemned
The Physics Society of Iran (PSI) has voiced concern over a recent case of faked peer review by an Iranian researcher. The full article...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 31, 2017
- 1 min
Singapore university revokes second researcher’s PhD in misconduct fallout
A university in Singapore has revoked a second researcher's PhD following a major misconduct scandal. The full story was published at...
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