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AI tools measure rigour of COVID-19 preprints
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • 6 days ago
  • 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 co...
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Nature journals debut open-access models
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Dec 18, 2020
  • 1 min

Nature journals debut open-access models

Last month publishing giant Springer Nature announced that in January 2021 many of its Nature-branded journals will start offering author...
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Nature journals set to offer all authors open access route in 2021 – for a price
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 27, 2020
  • 1 min

Nature journals set to offer all authors open access route in 2021 – for a price

In a significant policy shift, Nature and its 32 sister journals will give authors the chance to make their work free to read immediately...
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Improper publishing incentives in science put under microscope around the world
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 27, 2020
  • 1 min

Improper publishing incentives in science put under microscope around the world

Getting the measure of researchers and their work has long been a contentious subject, but the issue is receiving more attention in light...
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Millions of animals may be missing from scientific studies
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 14, 2020
  • 1 min

Millions of animals may be missing from scientific studies

Most animals used in biomedical experiments are not accounted for in published papers, a first-of-its-kind study suggests. The analysis f...
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Institute of Physics implements double-blind peer review
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 23, 2020
  • 1 min

Institute of Physics implements double-blind peer review

The UK’s Institute of Physics is making double-blind peer review the default process by the end of 2021 for authors publishing in Reports...
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Science is getting harder to read
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 11, 2020
  • 1 min

Science is getting harder to read

Science is becoming more difficult to understand due to the sheer number of acronyms, finds a new study that analysed the use of acronyms...
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Gender gap in chemistry journals hasn’t improved in 15 years
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 23, 2020
  • 1 min

Gender gap in chemistry journals hasn’t improved in 15 years

The percentages of female first and corresponding authors of papers in chemistry journals haven’t increased in the last decade and a half...
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Top officials at Russian universities embroiled in plagiarism scandal
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 13, 2020
  • 1 min

Top officials at Russian universities embroiled in plagiarism scandal

Seventeen of the senior-most officials at Russian universities, known as rectors, have published plagiarized papers in international pred...
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The gift of paper authorship
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 31, 2020
  • 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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It’s Time to Get Serious About Research Fraud
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 23, 2020
  • 1 min

It’s Time to Get Serious About Research Fraud

I wrote an opinion article for Undark Magazine arguing that different countries need to get more serious about dealing with research frau...
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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 fa...
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Does tweeting about research attract more citations?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • 1 min

Does tweeting about research attract more citations?

Tweeting about your research increases the number of citations it goes on to attract, according to a new analysis. But outside experts ar...
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Warning over coronavirus and predatory journals
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 23, 2020
  • 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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Royal Society of Chemistry releases plan to diversify academic publishing
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jun 19, 2020
  • 1 min

Royal Society of Chemistry releases plan to diversify academic publishing

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has released its “framework for action” to improve the diversity of its editors, peer-reviewers, and...
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Bias against women absent in peer review, analysis finds
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 15, 2020
  • 1 min

Bias against women absent in peer review, analysis finds

Manuscripts authored by women and men are treated similarly during peer review, finds a new study of more than 760,000 reviews of nearly ...
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Thousands of researchers in Australia appear on editorial boards of 'predatory' journals
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 15, 2020
  • 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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Journal peer review policies attract further scrutiny
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Apr 7, 2020
  • 1 min

Journal peer review policies attract further scrutiny

A new database aiming to clarify how peer review is conducted at different scholarly journals launched in March. The full article was pub...
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Digital badges aren’t enough incentive for researchers to share their data
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Mar 18, 2020
  • 1 min

Digital badges aren’t enough incentive for researchers to share their data

Online badges don’t motivate researchers to share their data when submitting to a medical journal, the first ever randomised controlled t...
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A single ‘paper mill’ appears to have churned out 400 papers, sleuths find
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 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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