Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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A space scientist formerly based at the University of Sydney made up data in an unpublished manuscript, an investigation by the...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 8
- 1 min
‘Elite university’ strategies might boost profile and rankings — but at what cost?
In this week's Nature, a new editorial comment article argues that some country's strategies of boosting the profiles and rankings of a...
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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
- Mar 6
- 1 min
A Conversation with Renee Wegrzyn, inaugural director of ARPA-H
In September 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden appointed applied biologist Renee Wegrzyn as the inaugural director of the Advanced Research...
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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
US Office of Research Integrity received 269 allegations of research misconduct last fiscal year
The US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) received a total of 269 complaints of alleged research misconduct between Oct. 1, 2021 and...
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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 20
- 1 min
US Office of Research Integrity appoints new director
Sheila Garrity, a prominent figure in the research integrity world, will join the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) as its permanent...
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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
Why children have to wait years for new drugs
A shortage of participants means that paediatric trials take longer and there is less financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies....
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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 13, 2022
- 1 min
The chemist who uses paper devices to spot fake and substandard drugs
For years, chemist Marya Lieberman of the University of Notre Dame and her team have been developing analytical paper diagnostics that...
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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
- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
A road map aims to improve the lives of junior scientists in Europe
Institutions and organizations across Europe have launched a manifesto that recommends ways to ameliorate the financial situations,...
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