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The study that may or may not already have been published
A study purported to have been stimulated by a systematic review that had already been published in the journal. The new study included 15 patients who had been treated in one arm of a study and 15 who had been treated in another arm. The peer reviewers noticed that the original systematic review included 31 patients from the same authors. The editor contacted the authors asking them to make… - Event
6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), Hong Kong, 2019
…and Edanz Group, Fukuoka 15:45 – 17:15 Symposium (SY3) Preprints: Beneficial or harmful for research integrity and publication ethics? A debate (Grand Hall) Sabine Kleinert, The Lancet and Chris Graf, COPE Past co-Chair (Conveners) John Inglis, bioRxiv; and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York Heather Tierney, COPE Council; and American Chemical… - Event
APAME 2013 Tokyo
COPE will hold two 90 minute sessions on the afternoon of 3 August during the annual congress of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME) in association… - Webform
COPE authorship workshop 10 February 2021
…REGISTRATION FOR THIS WORKSHOP IS CLOSED Online cases workshop for COPE members Wednesday 10 February 2021 15:00-16.30pm (GMT); 10.00-11.30am (EST) The authorship workshop is free for COPE members but spaces are limited to the first 50 applicants. Only those registered will be… - Event
COPE Forum: Wednesday 22 June 2022
…Forum agenda On 22 June 2022 the COPE Forum will be held at 14:00-15:30pm (BST / UTC+1) 1. Update Update on COPE activities by the Chair. 2. Forum discussion topic We begin the COPE Forum with a discussion on the topic Dealing with… - Event
Reviewer Credits webinar: How can integrity in peer-review improve academic publishing?
How can integrity in peer-review improve academic publishing? Reviewer Credits are hosting a free webinar on 15 July 2020, 17:00-18:00 (CET). During this webinar, Prof. Ana Marušić will discuss the importance of integrity in peer-review and how this concept needs to be constantly stimulated. This interactive training session is focused on building responsibility and integrity using… - News
COPE Forum: 8 August 2018
Submit a case The next COPE Forum will be a face to face meeting at the INANE Conference in Boston on 8 August,1.30-4.30pm. All COPE members are welcome to join this Forum in person, whether or not you are attending INANE. It will follow the… - Translated resources
Cómo reconocer la potencial manipulación del proceso de revisión por pares
…involucrados en el proceso se conducen con integridad (Ref 1), el proceso de revisión por pares es susceptible de manipulación (Ref 2-4) tal como se comentó en el Seminario COPE 2016 en América del Norte For the latest version (English language) of this guidance visit https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.2.15 Related resources … - Event
ALPSP: How Publishing Ethics Can Nurture Trust in Scholarly Publications
…How Publishing Ethics Can Nurture Trust in Scholarly Publications The Association of Learned & Professional Society Professionals are delivering this course on Tuesday 8 March and Wednesday 9 March at 09:00-12:00 (EST), 14:00-17:00 (GMT), 15:00-18:00 (CET) Overview A wide range of ethical issues can arise in academic publishing. These can be caused… - Event
COPE Forum: December 2023
…href="https://publicationethics.org/case/consent-forms-forged">uspicion that signed informed consent forms are forged Request for removal from author list for reasons of religious belief Image integrity flags on 15-year-old published… - Case
Ethical approval and fabrication of results
…treatment of 50 patients, and in the past he had peer reviewed two manuscripts by the same authors presenting exactly the same results from the treatment of only 15 patients. When the author was questioned about ethics approval, he said that he had previously gained consent from a specialist research society for his original study of15 patients. But when this manuscript was rejected, he… - Event
COPE Forum: December 2022
…advice? Submit a case The deadline to submit a case for this Forum is: Thursday 24 November 2022. --> Forum agenda On Thursday 8 December 2022 the COPE Forum will be held at 14:00-15:30pm (GMT / UTC) 1. Update Update on COPE activities by the Chair. 2. Forum discussion topic We begin the… - News
COPE Forum: 10 June 2015 meeting
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Wednesday 10 June 2015, 9am–10.30am (British Summer Time). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. The agenda and materials can be downloaded here (PDF 712kb). The invitation to join the webinar is below. We can accommodate up… - News
COPE endorses GPP3
…al. Good Publication Practice for Communicating Company-Sponsored Medical Research: GPP3. Ann Intern Med. Published online 11 August 2015 doi:10.7326/M15-0288… - News
COPE Forum: 9 December 2015
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Wednesday 9 December 2015, 12noon–1.30pm (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. The agenda and materials can be downloaded here (PDF 478kb). The invitation to join the webinar is below. We can accommodate up to 100… - Event
COPE Forum: Thursday 1 August 2019
The next COPE Forum will be a face to face meeting at the INANE Conference in Topaz Ballroom 2, The Reno Renaissance Hotel in Reno, Nevada, USA. it will run from 2.15pm to 5pm (Pacific Daylight Time). - Event
COPE Webinar, Understanding Text Recycling, August 2020
COPE is hosting a webinar on Text Recycling on Friday 7 August 2020, 16:00-17:15pm (BST) when we hear the latest findings from the members of the Text Recycling Research Project since they presented at last year's COPE European Seminar. Text recycling, also known as self-plagiarism is a common practice in research writing—especially in the sciences. It’s also complicated, both ethically… - Case
A further case of redundant publication
A paper was submitted to a UK specialist medical journal. At review, one of the reviewers alerted the editor to the fact that a very similar paper had been published in a US specialist title. It seems very likely that the reports describe the same randomised controlled trial. The only piece of new information was not an important outcome of the trial. The authors did not disclose the existence…