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ALPSP Webinar: Developing Ethical Commercial Revenues in a Changing Publishing Landscape
…tabindex="0">15:00 - 16:30 BST (London) / 16:00-17:30 CEST (Europe)* Chair: Gavin Sharrock, Business Development Director, Wiley This webinar, held by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), will… - News
COPE at the Second International Summit on Medical Research and Publication & The First International Forum on Frontiers in Medicine
…16th 2018. The full day meeting attracted over 100 researchers, publishing professionals and graduate students. Jason addressed the importance of ethical research and publication, the needs of improving awareness of responsibility of the whole research community, as well as the best practices and resources developed by COPE and the community over years. … - 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: Monday 13 May 2019
…src="/files/u7140/Register_button.png" style="width: 300px; height: 76px;" /> Forum agenda and materials 1. Update on COPE activities by the Chair 2. Forum discussion: Ethical challenges in the arts, humanities and social sciences: initial research findings and solutions 3. New cases 19-05 Duplicate submission and authorship dispute 19-06 Dual submission and editor’s failure to… - News
AGM 2017
…src="/files/u7140/Screen%20Shot%202017-11-13%20at%2015.16.46.png" style="width: 300px; height: 129px; margin: 3px; float: left;" />… Strategic plan
…publication as they arise. Revenue We will have expanded our membership and established more sources of revenue to sustain our mission beyond 2023. Read the full details of COPE's strategic plan 2020-2023 (PDF, 3.16 MB) An update on work towards COPE's strategic plan:- Event
COPE Forum: Monday 11 February 2019
…src="/files/u7140/Register_button.png" style="width: 300px; height: 76px;" /> Forum agenda and materials 1. Update on COPE activities by the Chair 2. Forum discussion: Diversity and inclusion in research publishing 3. New cases 19-01 Reviewer requesting addition of multiple citations of their own… - Event
COPE Forum: Monday 11 November 2019, 4pm (GMT)
…October 2019. --> Members can register to attend the Forum by: 8 November 2019 Forum agenda and materials 1. Update… - News
In the news: October-November 2021
Each month, COPE Council members find and share publication ethics news. This month the news includes articles on authorship and contributorship, data and reproducibility, peer review, and diversity, equity and inclusion. APAME 2013 Tokyo
…APAME 2013 Tokyo Asia Pacific Association of Medical Editors (APAME) Convention 2013, Tokyo, Japan Date: 2–4 August 2013 Venue: Japan Medical Association (JMA) Auditorium, 2-28-16, Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8621, Japan COPE will hold two 90 minute sessions on the afternoon of 3 August during the annual congress of the…- Case
Double plagiarism
A researcher has written to us to point out that a paper published in a German journal in 1993 was put together almost verbatim from articles published in the BMJ in 1989 and the New England Journal of Medicine in 1992. About three quarters of the material in the article in the German paper comes from these two journals. It may be that the data are original but it seems unlikely. What should we… - 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… - Event
COPE Forum: Friday 4 September 2020
Our September Forum, held by webinar (16:00-17:30 British Summer Time) will follow the usual format where we discuss a topic, followed by COPE members' cases presented for discussion and advice from all those participating in the Forum. Members can register to attend the Forum The… - 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… - Event
ISMTE European Conference 2019
…a world that’s changing, fast. There is an exciting agenda planned including sessions on topics such as AI in editorial and peer review workflows, improving submission quality, and graphical and video abstracts. Attendees can save $50 by registering before September 16. … - Case
The missing author
In March 1996, journal A published a case report about an eye condition with two authors credited, Drs X and Y, both radiologists. Exactly two years later, one of their former colleagues (Dr Z) wrote to the editor claiming that she had been responsible for the patient’s care; she was the ophthalmologist on call the night the patient was admitted. She argued that, as the clinician responsible f… - Case
Author dispute and dual submission
A case report was submitted for consideration and, following favourable review, was accepted for publication by Journal A. All three authors signed the copyright release form, but about six weeks later a request not to publish the article was received by e-mail, which was attributed to a “misunderstanding and argument between two of the authors.” The editor wrote to all three authors expressin… - Case
Difficulty in obtaining patient consent
_ Legally, permission is required from the living unless they are under 16 or incapacitated. _ Relatives have no place in giving permission on behalf of deceased patients. _ The explanation from the authors was, however, deemed acceptable as it was agreed that they had gone as far as possible and had acted courteously.… - Case
Duplicate submission
The authors submitted a paper to journal A on genetic analysis of a potentially pathogenic organism isolated from children, analysed by school attended. Six days later, the same authors submitted a paper to journal B on genetic analysis of the same organism isolated from children, analysed by socio-economic class. The papers appear to be different analyses of the same data, and substantial port…