Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 30, 2017
- 1 min
Fake peer review hits RSC journals
Journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) — which also publishes Chemistry World — have today retracted five papers due to a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 18, 2017
- 1 min
We May Not Be Able To Do Math Unconsciously, After All
A study that seemed to show people can read and do math with their unconscious minds has been called into question by researchers. Read...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 1, 2017
- 1 min
Science to retract study on fish and microplastics
High-profile journal Science is retracting a scientific study about how human pollution is harming fish, after months of questions about...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 6, 2017
- 1 min
Study retraction reignites concern over China’s possible use of prisoner organs
A journal has decided to retract a 2016 study because of concerns that its data on the safety of liver transplantation involved organs...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 21, 2016
- 1 min
Environmental journal pulls two papers for “compromised” peer review
Environmental Geochemistry and Health has retracted two papers after an investigation suggested that the peer-review process had been...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 5, 2016
- 1 min
Cancer study pulled when published without supervisor’s consent
The Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences has retracted a paper after concerns surfaced from a researcher who claims to have supervised the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 10, 2014
- 1 min
The Rise of Retractions
The number of retraction notices that are published have increased by 10-fold in the last decade despite the number of papers only...
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