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The wrong standard deviations, the over stringent selection criteria, and the overt attempt at advertising
A randomised controlled trial raised three aspects of concern: 1. The participants’ physical characteristics at entry to the study were listed in a table. For the two groups—intervention and control—one physical characteristic was given as a mean ± the standard deviations (SDs). However, the SDs for both groups were much smaller than they should have been. 2. The inclusion criteria were… - Event
International Network of Business and Management Journals (INBAM)
Adrian Ziderman, COPE Council member, will be presenting at a hands-on workshop on 'Publishing Ethics: What Authors Need to Know' at the annual conference of the International Network of Business and Management Journals (INBAM), in Barcelona, Spain. Click here for more information. … - News
COPE North American seminar 13 August 2014
Register for COPE's 5th North American seminar, which will be held in collaboration with ISMTE (International Society of Managing & Technical Editors), on Wednesday 13 August 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. For more details and to register, see here… - Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2011: Ghosts, Guests and other Distortions of Authorship
…Download presentation: Ghosts, Guests and other Distortions of Authorship [PDF, 1240 KB]… - Event
Next COPE Forum
COPE's next Forum will be on Tuesday, 4 March 2014, at 3-5pm (GMT). The Forum will be by Webinar.… - Seminars and webinars
Legal issues in corrections and retractions — Joss Saunders, Blake Lapthorn Solicitors
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COPE European Seminar: The changing face and future of publication ethics
Join us at our European Seminar to celebate 20 years of COPE. Location The Seminar is at 20 Cavendish Square, London on 25 May 2017. Registration The Seminar is free for COPE members, £300 for non-members. Register today… - Event
2018 Events
COPE Council members have been busy talking about COPE at meetings and conferences across the globe. - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2017: Research data in the context of publication ethics
At the 2017 COPE European Seminar, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing at Springer Nature, talked about research data in the context of challenges and opportunities for publication ethics. … - Event
COPE Forum: 8 July 2014
The next COPE Forum will be on Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 9am (British Summer Time). The Forum will be by Webinar.… - Event
COPE Forum: 23 September 2014
COPE's September Forum will be on Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 3-5pm (British Summer Time). The Forum will be by Webinar.… - News
An analysis of peer review cases brought to COPE from 1997-2016
Elizabeth Moylan, COPE Council member, presented this abstract as a poster at the COPE at the Peer Review Congress, 10-12 September 2017, Chicago. An analysis of peer review cases brought to COPE from 1997-2016 Download pdf of poster - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2017: The paper, the publishers,the protagonist and the academic setting
At the 2017 COPE European Seminar, Jane Jacobs, Director of the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity at the Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, presented her thoughts on responsible research practice in Australia, authorship and publication … - News
Presentations from COPE 2013 European Seminar now online
The presentations and posters from the 2013 COPE European seminar are now available online. The theme of the seminar was “Publication ethics from student to professional” and includes presentations from Professor Pieter Drenth, Professor Emeritus at VU University of Amsterdam; Dr Irene Hames, COPE council member and former managing editor of The Plant Journal; and Gill Rowell, Academic Advisor… - Event
UKRIO research integrity webinar
…Good research practise from the publishers' perspective The webinar will discuss what good practice means from the perspective of academic publishers and journal editors. Speakers include: Chris Graf, Director of Research Integrity at Wiley; Suzanne Farley, Research Integrity Director at Springer Nature; and Deborah Poff, Chair of COPE. Deborah Poff has edited…