Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Dedicated committee needed to tackle research reproducibility problems in the UK
A report released by the science, innovation and technology committee of the UK House of Commons is recommending that a subcommittee...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 9
- 1 min
Researchers who agree to manipulate citations are more likely to get their papers published
Researchers who are coerced by editors into adding superfluous citations in their manuscripts are more likely to succeed in publishing...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 21
- 1 min
New tool detects papers originating from paper mills
A new tool has been launched to detect studies that are the product of paper mills, which churn out subpar scientific papers that...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 21
- 1 min
Earthquake destroyed data, claims Japanese prof found to have faked results
A professor of cell biology in Japan faked data in an influential cancer study published in Nature Neuroscience in 2019, according to an...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Highly-cited chemist is suspended for claiming to be affiliated with Russian and Saudi universities
The University of Córdoba has suspended a highly-cited chemist for 13 years after finding that he had claimed to be affiliated with a...
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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 26
- 1 min
Exclusive: Australia space scientist made up data, probe finds
A space scientist formerly based at the University of Sydney made up data in an unpublished manuscript, an investigation by the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 15
- 1 min
‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature
A free-to-use tool designed to detect statistical errors is significantly reducing the number of mistakes creeping into papers, suggests...
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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
- Feb 27
- 1 min
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
- Feb 24
- 1 min
‘Golden tickets’ on the cards for NSF grant reviewers
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is considering piloting a funding model under which grant peer reviewers are given ‘golden...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Elsevier journal under fire for rejecting paper that didn’t cite enough of its old papers
A scholarly journal run by the Dutch publishing giant Elsevier has come under scrutiny for rejecting a paper submitted for publication...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 10
- 1 min
US funders must do more to ensure research reliability
The three largest basic-research funders in the United States are under the spotlight as a recent report from the country's Government...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 6
- 1 min
A Conversation with Greta Heydenrych, IUPAC's new executive director
For most chemists, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), is the organization that gives elements their names and...
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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
- Jan 6
- 1 min
Unearned authorship pervades science
Almost 70% of researchers based in Europe say that they have been involved in projects in the past three years that listed authors who...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
AI system not yet ready to help peer reviewers assess research quality
Researchers tasked with examining whether artificial intelligence (AI) technology could assist in the peer review of journal articles...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 8, 2022
- 1 min
Journals to trial tool that automatically flags reproducibility and transparency issues in papers
A tool using natural language processing and machine learning algorithms is being rolled-out on journals to automatically flag...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Citation data are now open, but that’s far from enough
A few years ago, researchers would find considerable hurdles when attempting to study citation patterns to illuminate trends in a field,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Five-year campaign breaks science’s citation paywall
The more than 60 million scientific-journal papers indexed by Crossref — the database that registers DOIs, or digital object identifiers,...
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