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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
15th EASE General Assembly and Conference
…trainer Pippa Smart Wednesday, 30 June, 9.00am-11.00am BST Thursday, 1 July 9.00am-11.00am BST Price £320, EASE conference delegates are eligible for 50% discount, £160 Course 2: Avoid those common… - Event
International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication: free virtual symposium
September 14, 2021 3:00 – 4:30 PM GMT; 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET Free virtual symposium Advancing the science of scientific publishing Call for research and abstracts for the ninth peer review congress Join the Peer Review Congress organizers for this live Call for Research and Abstracts. Participation is free, but registration is required. … - Event
COPE Workshop: MUNIN Conference
…Publication ethics workshop 10:30am - 16:00pm (CEST) In partnership with the MUNIN Conference on Scholarly Publishing, which runs from 29-30 November, Howard Browman, COPE Trustee, and Matt Hodgkinson, COPE Council Member, are leading a publication ethics workshop. The workshop will be based on COPE's Core… - Event
Open Access and Medical Publishing: ISMPP
ISMPP invites COPE members to attend a special 90-minute ISMPP U educational webinar, Open Access and Medical Publishing, on Wednesday, January 30, at 11 am EST/4 pm in the UK. The webinar is open to all and free to COPE members. Expert speakers representing different stakeholder views – industry (Shire), funder (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), publisher (Wiley and American… - Event
COPE Seminar: AN INTRODUCTION TO PUBLICATION ETHICS
…href="http://www.ismte.org/">ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), on Monday 12 October 2015 at the Park Inn Hotel London Heathrow, 10am–4pm. For more details and to register, see here.… - News
COPE Forum Meetings 2016
The quarterly COPE Forum meetings, where we discuss cases submitted by members, will take place in Februray, May, August and November. The Forums will be by webinar, except for the August Forum, which will be a face to face meeting in London during the INANE conference. 3-4.30pm (GMT) Friday 12 February 2016 by Webinar8-9.30am (BST) Friday 6 May 2016 by Webinar2-3.30pm… - Event
Update on publication guidelines and insights from AMWA, EMWA and ISMPP
The International Society of Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) invites members of COPE to a special educational webinar focused on medical publication guidelines, on Wednesday, January 28th, 11:00am – 12:30pm EST. The webinar will feature representatives from ISMPP, the American Medical Writers Association ( - Event
Scholarly publishing in a connected world: Turning disruptions into opportunities
Jigisha Patel, COPE Council Member, is speaking at ISMTE's Global Event "Scholarly publishing in a connected world: Turning disruptions into opportunities" at 11am on 2 November 2022. In a session on research integrity and ethics, Jigisha, and Sabina Alam, will be exploring the impact of the rise in paper mills and the impact it is having on journal editorial offices and the academic… - Case
Competing interests question
…promoting this study’s results? The meeting made the following decision: As competing interests were declared, the meeting felt we could go ahead with publishing the evaluation. Competing interests declaration: I am the director of the grant that paid some of the expenses for the conduct of this study, including the first author’s salary. I did not supervise the… - Case
Problem with figures
(1) An article was published after peer review. Shortly after online publication we received a message from a reader (an academic who works in the same field as the authors) notifying us of a major concern with one of the figures in the article. “I am writing with regard of manuscript XXX recently published in XXX. These studies raise significant expectations in XXX patients, because… - Event
ISTME European virtual event
The International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) are exploring 'Evolving trends in scholarly publishing' during this two day event. COPE Council member, Matt Hodgkinson is speaking at this virtual event on Friday 20 November 10:00-10:30am (GMT). Matt will be exploring the ethics of… - Event
Plagiarism Webcast Series: 5 biggest challenges from the front lines of scholarly publishing
…Time: 8:30am Los Angeles / 11:30am New York / 4:30pm London Audience: Authors, researchers, editors, editorial staff and management Duration: 1-hour Audio: Via computer FEATURED EXPERTS Dr. Virginia BarbourCouncil Chair at Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and Co-founding Editor of PLoS Medicine Journal Dr. David MoherUniversity Research… - News
NEJM one of 850 new members of COPE in 2012
…England Journal of Medicine and Distinguished Parker B Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School says: “COPE provides a global forum for the airing of issues related to publication and I am pleased to participate in this effort”. Read the press release here for more… - News
COPE Forum 3 February: Register & agenda
…(Unfortunately we have had to cancel the 8am (GMT) Forum. The 4pm (GMT) Forum has a few places available so please do register, by clicking the link above, if this time is possible for you. We're sorry to all those who registered for the 8am Forum for any inconvenience caused.) Forum discussion topic: Disclosed conflicts of interest Disclosure of conflicts of interest is essential to preserving… - Case
Repeated alleged plagiarism in case reports
…papers from which each of these had been slightly altered as well. I rejected both of those papers from the Editor-in-Chief desk with a stern email and a request for him to be sure that he did not submit material that had been published previously again. At our editorial board meeting in November, I am to bring this up to discuss strategies to prevent this but in the meantime, I have… - Event
ISMPP webinar: Coronavirus (COVID-19), its impact on publication planning
Free Webinar on COVID-19 and Publication Planning! ISMPP invites COPE members to attend a special 90-minute ISMPP U educational webinar - Coronavirus (COVID-19): Its Impact on Publication Planning - on Wednesday, April 29, at 11 am EDT/4 pm in the UK. This informative and complimentary ISMPP U is open to all! - Event
ISMPP webinar: Graphical Presentation of Data in Medical Publications
ISMPP invites you to attend this special 90-minute ISMPP University educational webinar, on Wednesday January 25 at 11 am ET/4 pm GMT. The webinar is free to all regardless of ISMPP membership status. Webinar attendees will learn from experts about how to integrate essential graphical presentation elements into medical publications. Figures, tables and images contribute to data interpretation… - Event
ISMPP Annual Meeting
…Global Publication Practices: Advancing Ethics and Scientific Integrity in an Era of Data-Sharing 10% off for COPE members using code AM13COPE10 when you register for the conference by 11 April. Highlight of this year’s Annual Meeting program include: Opening keynote… - News
COPE Forum: 9 December 2015
…attendees, so please register quickly if you wish to join in the discussion. Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9218809434404207617 The website link will be open from 11.30am to enable you to test your audio settings. The Forum, however, will start promptly at 12…