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Attention COPE members! Changes to the website
…This suspension will begin next Monday (24th January). We anticipate that members will be able to log into the new website by 21st February, but we will contact you again to let you know of our progress. We apologise for this inconvenience but we hope you will be pleased with the new design which will make it easier for members to navigate the site and to access the resources more quickly. - Event
ISMPP European Meeting 2020
…partnerships Innovating across the data generation and dissemination journey Maximising value of communication content and resonance with audience Futurescaping The meeting will also feature The Training Zone – a satellite session for new publication professionals - on 21 January, and 10 lively roundtable discussion topics. Learn about the meeting at - Event
Next COPE Forum 6 September 2011
…Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), 5-11 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8SH (http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/how-find-us/how-find-us). All COPE members are welcome to attend the meeting, whether or not they are presenting a case. Download the agenda and materials - News
COPE Forum 24 April 2017
…Deadline to register: Friday 21 April Register 6.30am Forum6.30 - 8am British Summer Time (BST) Register 4pm Forum4 - 5.30pm British Summer Time (BST) Forum agenda… - Case
Bizarre treatment of viral disease overseas
A journal received an account by email from outside Britain of how 14 patients infected with a potentially lethal virus had been treated with an unusual non-pharmacological treatment. The treatment seemed bizarre, and furthermore, there was no mention of approval by an ethics committee or of informed consent. The author was twice emailed to ask if he had ethics committee approval and if he had… What peer review means in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Forum discussion topic June 2020
…target="_blank">study of Ebola in the Congo which was published with no Congolese co-authors. Other issues may have reference to dissimilarities with respect to disciplinary publication patterns and with the importance or lack of importance of matters such as citation and citation frequency. As noted byAPAME 2013 Tokyo
…="http://jams.med.or.jp/apame2013/announcemnet.html">http://jams.med.or.jp/apame2013/announcemnet.html The conference is free, although numbers are limited to 100. To register for the congress, please see here: http://jams.med.or.jp/apame2013/ (Please ignore the deadline of 21 June on this website. Registration is still open.)…- News
COPE authorship workshop February 2021
…Online cases workshop for COPE members only Wednesday 10 February 2021 15:00-16:30pm (GMT); 10.00-11.30am (EST) Wednesday 24 February 2021 09:00-10:30am (GMT); 17.00-18.30pm (AWST); 20.00-21.30pm (AEDT) Following on from the success of our virtual workshops last year, COPE is delighted to announce an online workshop on… - News
COPE receives top award from Council of Science Editors
…council, in a ceremony scheduled for the CSE Annual Meeting, which will be held this year in Seattle, Washington, USA on 20-21 May 2012. "We are delighted to receive this prestigious award from CSE and to join the distinguished list of individuals and organisations that have been honoured for their meritorious achievement"… - Case
Compromise of patient confidentiality?
A paper containing three case reports of the same disease was accepted for publication. The disease reported is fairly rare. The parents of one of the cases consented to publication on condition that their daughter was referred to in the paper by her first name rather than as a case number. This particular case has been discussed in the course of a national inquiry, but it is not clear whether… - Seminars and webinars
WCRI 2019: Responsible authorship
…behaviours leading to disputes include: questionable changes to author list after submission (27%); submission without knowledge of one or more authors (19%); claims of unacknowledged authorship (21%); ghost, guest or gift authors (19%); disputed order of authorship (7%); and forged paperwork (7%). An analysis of one case was presented to illustrate the complexity of competing claims, unresolved… - Case
Ownership of an idea
A paper was submitted describing a novel technique for preparing tissue, which was noted immediately by a referee to be a modification of a method used by another researcher. The other researcher is thanked but is not included in the author list. The referee asks for advice as he feels that he is in a grey area of ownership of an idea and the degree of novelty needed to make it a “new” idea. T… - Event
COPE Forum
Register for the July Forum The COPE Forum 4-5.30pm (BST) will be held by webinar and is open to COPE members. Taking part in the Forum allows members to contribute to, as well as learn from, the current cases being discussed. In addition to the cases we will be holding a discussion on "Preprints: What are the issues?" Deadline to register: Friday 21 July - Case
Blatant example of duplicate publication?
A paper was submitted to one journal on 7 March, revised on 20 May, submitted to another journal on 21 March, revised on 29 May, accepted on 2 July and published in December 1997. The content of both papers is identical but each has different reference styles so were clearly intended for two different journals. The submission letter to the first journal clearly states that the material has not… eLearning
…Plagiarism, Falsification, and Fabrication - will be available on 21 October 2011. Other modules will be rolled out as they are ready. The eLearning package does not lead to a qualification but members who have completed the modules can print out certificates of participation. We are keen to receive feedback so please do complete the evaluation form at the end of the module. We will be updating and…- Event
APAME 2013 Tokyo
…ease-in-out;">http://jams.med.or.jp/apame2013/ (Please ignore the deadline of 21 June on this website. Registration is still open.)… - News
J-STAGE Seminar, Japan
Trevor Lane, COPE Council Member, represented COPE at the Second J-STAGE Seminar in Tokyo, Japan, on 21 October 2019, at… - Case
Duplicate publication and now fraud?
Two articles were published in two different journals. The articles had been submitted within days of each other, and were subsequently peer reviewed, revised, and published within a month of each other. The authors failed to reference the closely related article as submitted or in press, and the editors of the two journals were unaware of the other article. After publication the editor… - Case
The case of a physician in private practice offering an experimental intervention
A physician in private practice wrote to our journal asking if we were interested in a paper discussing his experience of offering a novel intravenous therapy to his patients. He hoped we wouldn’t discriminate against him for being an author in private practice. He had given this therapy to nine patients with a variety of acute and chronic illnesses, including himself. The physician says that a… - Case
Can two DOIs be assigned to the same manuscript?
A preprint server owned by a commercial publishing company posted a paper and assigned a DOI to the preprint. The manuscript was then submitted to peer reviewed journal X, owned by a different publisher. Assuming acceptance at the journal, can the article be published under a different DOI belonging to journal X? At journal X, Crossref registration is automatic. However, can two differen…