Dalmeet Singh Chawla

London

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Articles

Fake AI images will cause headaches for journals

1 month ago | nature.com | Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Microscopic images of tissue samples can be generated so convincingly by artificial intelligence (AI) that journal editors, peer reviewers and readers are being warned to take a much closer look when reading papers. A study that presented people with real and fake histological images — used to study the microscopic structure of tissues — found that many participants could not tell the difference.
Suspended UK surgeon earns nine expressions of concern, one withdrawal

2 months ago | retractionwatch.com | Dalmeet Singh Chawla

A U.K.-based surgeon who was suspended last year for conducting colorectal surgeries that caused harm to hundreds of women has had nine of his research papers flagged and one withdrawn.
Misappropriation of undergraduate work leads to study retraction

2 months ago | retractionwatch.com | Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Researchers in Australia have retracted a 2020 nanotechnology study after their institution’s research integrity office found the paper had misappropriated the work of undergraduate students at their school. According to the retraction notice, the study stated the data belonged to an industry consulting project when in fact they originated from undergraduate work.
Journal retracts letter about pager explosion injuries in Lebanon

Mar 24, 2025 | retractionwatch.com | Dalmeet Singh Chawla

The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery has retracted a letter it published about a purportedly novel injury observed during the two deadly waves of pager explosions in Lebanon and Syria in 2024, reportedly linked to Israeli intelligence services. The original letter, “‘Pager’s trauma’ as a new and destructive type of blast injuries,” published Dec. 26, 2024, had not been indexed by Clarivate’s Web of Science.
Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves?

Mar 19, 2025 | retractionwatch.com | Dalmeet Singh Chawla

While using bibliometric techniques to measure how disruptive research papers are to their field of study, Robin Haunschild and Lutz Bornmann stumbled across a strange phenomenon. Just under 45,000 academic papers contained citations to themselves, they found. Haunschild and Bornmann — both information scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany — found these “paper self-citations” in journals indexed by Clarivate’s Web of Science since 1980.
Could libraries band together to ensure open access for all?

Mar 19, 2025 | nature.com | Dalmeet Singh Chawla

More than 70 journals are trialling a publishing model called subscribe to open (S2O), in which libraries pay an annual subscription fee to make paywalled journals open access. The trial, set to start next January, will run for three years if there is enough participation. It aims to make academic journals freely available online without charging authors or relying on donations. Fifty-four societies, museums and research institutions around the world have signed their journals up.
Catchy, clear, concise: Three-part phrases boost research paper citations

Mar 18, 2025 | nature.com | Dalmeet Singh Chawla

From ‘Envy, inequality and fertility’ to ‘Market size, trade and productivity’, using catchy three-part phrases in the titles of research papers can boost their citations, suggests a study. The study used algorithms to examine more than 235,000 economics papers and 93,000 medical and life-sciences papers that contain three-part phrases in their titles.
Thousands demand withdrawal of review article recommending exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome

Jan 23, 2025 | retractionwatch.com | Dalmeet Singh Chawla

The decision to abandon a process to re-evaluate a review recommending exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has reignited calls for the article to be withdrawn. The 2019 version of the Cochrane Library review, “Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome,” has accumulated 67 citations, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science.
Journal retracts Thermo Fisher Scientific study after ethical concerns

Jan 2, 2025 | cen.acs.org | Dalmeet Singh Chawla

An academic journal has retracted a study conducted by researchers with the science services giant Thermo Fisher Scientific over concerns that a tool used in the study violates the ethical standards of forensic genetics. The John Wiley & Sons journal Electrophoresis published the original study in 2016.
Prominent chemistry journal loses its impact factor

Dec 30, 2024 | cen.acs.org | Dalmeet Singh Chawla

The prominent academic journal Chemosphere is the latest title to lose its impact factor -a metric often controversially used to evaluate researchers and their work-after retracting a series of papers it published. Chemosphere retracted at least eight papers in December, according to the research integrity blog Retraction Watch. It has issued 60 expressions of concern, which alert readers to possible problems with papers, since April.