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Jul 31
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 23
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jul 9
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jun 26
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jun 23
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jun 19
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 15
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 15
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Apr 7
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Mar 18
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Feb 27
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jan 30
1 min

Online platform allows researchers to claim credit for grant peer review

Publons, a website that allows peer reviewers to claim credit for refereeing manuscripts, is expanding its remit to grant peer review. La...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jan 22
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

Jan 13
1 min

Predatory-journal papers have little scientific impact

Papers published in ‘predatory’ journals attract little attention from scientists, and get cited much less than those in reputable public...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Jan 8
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 ap...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Dec 19, 2019
1 min

There’s No Winter Break From ‘Publish or Perish’

An analysis of submissions of manuscripts and peer review reports at two journals suggests that a significant number of researchers aroun...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Dec 13, 2019
1 min

Hyperauthorship: global projects spark surge in thousand-author papers

The number of research papers with more than 1,000 authors has more than doubled in the past 5 years, a study of millions of articles ind...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Nov 22, 2019
1 min

Don’t let researchers recommend who reviews their work

Why do some other funders and scholarly publishers still allow researchers to suggest reviewers to evaluate their work? Some funders and ...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Nov 20, 2019
1 min

A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis

In 2008, psychologists proposed that when humans are shown an unfamiliar face, they judge it on two main dimensions: trustworthiness and ...

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Nov 12, 2019
1 min

It’s okay to lose confidence in your previous research

You may not believe what you believed before. It might feel as if you’ve squandered your grant money on research that you no longer stand...

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The gift of paper authorship

It’s Time to Get Serious About Research Fraud

This tool is saving universities millions of dollars in journal subscriptions

Does tweeting about research attract more citations?

Warning over coronavirus and predatory journals

Royal Society of Chemistry releases plan to diversify academic publishing

Bias against women absent in peer review, analysis finds

Thousands of researchers in Australia appear on editorial boards of 'predatory' journals

Journal peer review policies attract further scrutiny

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

A single ‘paper mill’ appears to have churned out 400 papers, sleuths find

Online platform allows researchers to claim credit for grant peer review

Software searches out reproducibility issues in scientific papers

Predatory-journal papers have little scientific impact

Russian journals retract more than 800 papers after ‘bombshell’ investigation

There’s No Winter Break From ‘Publish or Perish’

Hyperauthorship: global projects spark surge in thousand-author papers

Don’t let researchers recommend who reviews their work

A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis

It’s okay to lose confidence in your previous research