Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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
- 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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 23
- 1 min
Author makes popular chemistry textbook free after discovering copyright loophole
The author of a popular organic chemistry textbook is making it freely available to students after learning about a loophole in his...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 18
- 1 min
New tool measures thoroughness of peer review reports
The level of detail of peer review reports is consistent across physical science journals regardless of the publications’ prominence,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 26
- 1 min
Top Russian university officials’ predatory publishing record points to deeper malaise
Researchers based at Russian institutions are more likely to publish in predatory journals if their university leader already does so,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 6
- 1 min
Japan launches preprint server — but will scientists use it?
Japan has become the latest country to open an online preprint repository, in a bid to boost international exposure to the country’s...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 2
- 1 min
‘Tainted kids,’ other odd phrases cropping up in autism studies
In April, developmental neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop noticed strange phrases in a 2021 study of autistic children who interacted with...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 27
- 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
- Apr 6
- 1 min
Russian website peddles authorships linked to reputable journals
Since 2019, Anna Abalkina has been monitoring a website that offers an illicit way for scientists to burnish their CVs. The site,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 25
- 1 min
How critics say a computer scientist in Spain artificially boosted his Google Scholar metrics
Want a higher h-index? Here’s a way — but be warned, it’s a method that will raise some eyebrows. Take the example of this computer...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 11
- 1 min
Physics papers authored by women are cited less than those by men
Physics research papers authored by women receive fewer citations than expected given the number of women who work in the field and the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Plan P: Can institutions facilitate open access?
Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 17
- 1 min
ResearchGate responsible for illegal content on its site, German court rules
The popular academic social networking site ResearchGate is appealing a 31 January ruling by a district court in Munich, Germany, which...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 1
- 1 min
Clarivate Analytics’s new author profiles tool to include peer review activity
Clarivate Analytics, the UK-based firm that owns the scholarly database Web of Science (WoS), has begun automatically generating author...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 28
- 1 min
Tobacco publishing ban extended to researchers at industry-owned firms
A group of international respiratory societies has banned researchers associated with tobacco companies from publishing papers in their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 24
- 1 min
Massive open index of scholarly papers launches
An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 24
- 1 min
Royal Society report says there’s no silver bullet to fix ‘scientific misinformation’
There’s no quick and easy way to fix the problem of ’scientific misinformation’, argues a new report released by the Royal Society. As...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
China sanctions hundreds of researchers following fraud investigation
China’s ministry of science and technology (MOST) has sanctioned hundreds of researchers after an investigation concluded that they had...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 2, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers spent an estimated 130 million hours peer-reviewing papers in 2020
In 2020, researchers globally spent an estimated 130 million hours – equivalent to 15,000 years – peer-reviewing manuscripts for...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 30, 2021
- 1 min
The future of librarianship
Libraries need to become more user-friendly and to meet the demand of their patrons for digital services, according to a new survey...
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