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2003

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Foreword: COPE continues to flourish 1
COPE Council, Committee and Membership 2
Session 1: How do we deliver a Council for Research Integrity in the UK?
Introduction 4
Setting the scene 5
A view from the Academy of Medical Sciences 8
A view from Universities UK 10
Research governance: the NHS perspective 11
A view from the GMC 13
Session 2: Editorial Accountability
Editorial misconduct: time to act 18
Have we made progress in exposing and dealing with editorial misconduct? 20
A survey of editors' conflicts of interest 24
How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researcher 32
Guidelines on Good Publication Practice 69
Constitution of COPE 74

Cases:

An attempt to bribe an editor

Dual submission, salami slicing, redundant publication, or all three?

Co authors’ unwillingness to support retraction of a review

Possibly unethical report on the safety and efficacy of a minor operation

Dual publication

Order of authors changing between a submitted manuscript and a published paper

Babies needlessly subjected to a painful procedure for research

Contacting Research Ethics Committees with concerns over studies

The author not affiliated to an institution

Arm twisting an editor

Arm twisting an editor

An unethical ethics committee?

Consent from relatives for genetic tests

Late reinterpretation and a new author

New commercial cure for a common but incurable problem, role of sponsor

Duplicate submission to two journals and previous duplicate publication uncovered

Duplicate publication

New surgical technique without evidence of either ethics committee approval or patient consent

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