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Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: March 2019
…speakers and can register here. Geri PearsonChris Graf COPE co-chairs Geri Pearson and Chris… - Case
Review of a book written by an editor of a journal
Two scholars and professional colleagues, A and B, serve as co-editors of a peer-reviewed international journal. Editor A, who recently had a book published, has requested that editor B solicit a review of the book from a scholar in the field. Editor A would like this review to be published in the journal that they edit together. Editor B is concerned that this situation would put him in… - Case
Misunderstood requirements for authorship
Dr X submitted a paper to a journal that was assigned by a rather hung-over editorial assistant to an associate editor who was a co-author on the paper. Realising the mistake, she emailed the associate editor to reassign the paper. He expressed surprise as he did not know Dr X, had not seen the paper before submission, and knew of no reason why he should be a co-author. Dr X was asked… - News
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… - News
Information sharing about intentional research misconduct
…COPE partner with UKRI on fact-finding workshop COPE and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are co-hosting a fact-finding workshop on sharing information between journals (publishers), research organisations and funders, where that information is about allegations or cases of intentional research misconduct. Past Council Members
COPE has benefited from many experienced editors and other publishing professionals who have served COPE as volunteers. Below is a list of COPE's previous Trustees and Council Members. Michael Farthing, co-Founder, Chair (1997-2003) Richard Horton, co-Founder (1997) Richard Smith,…- Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2017: COPE today and tomorrow
For the 2017 COPE European Seminar, co-chairs Geri Pearson and Chris Graf reflected on the COPE of today and the COPE of tomorrow. ' … - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: January 2019
…more details about the Seminar as the programme is developed. We hope you will be able to join us through the year at one of these events, our quarterly Forum webinars where members’ cases are submitted for discussion and advice and our ongoing webinar series focusing on hot topics. We will keep you updated as we shape these events. Happy New Year! COPE co… - Event
ISMTE North American Conference
Heather Tierney, COPE Council member, is presenting at the ISMTE conference in Baltimore on the following topics: Plenary Session 1: Preprints, Authorship Transparency, Bias in Peer Review August 2nd, 4.30-5.15pm Plenary Session 3: Transparency in Co-Authorship August 3, 12.00-12.45pm - News
Peer review diversity: survey
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Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: July 2018
…target="_blank">FAIR and accessible? The discussion was so good that we’re doing it again. So please, do join us for Transparency 2025 discussion at WCRI 2019 in Hong Kong (find out more here). We have a fresh set of stellar panelists for you. And together we’ll continue the conversation. COPE co… - Case
Request for a retraction of a retraction
…noted that two co-authors were not involved in any misconduct because one did a single clinical assessment and the other was a statistician. The committee concluded that “some fabrication and falsification might have taken place”, but noted that the “issue will be finalised” by a higher education council and “later probably” in a court of law. The co-author who did the assessment only also had… - Case
Author disagreement regarding article corrections
We received an original article which was accepted and published. The article was written by multiple authors from several centres, and the corresponding author undertook the task of standardising the content, making several corrections to the original text. The author proofs were sent to the corresponding author, who reviewed them. However, once published, one of the co… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: May 2018
…Unported license, used here with attribution to Ananian) COPE co-chairs Chris Graf and Geri Pearson - Event
Social media and the internet—all in this together?
Working in partnership: Association for Research Ethics (AfRE) and the University of Bristol. This is a ‘must’ workshop for those who are using or envisage using social media in research, and for those involved in research ethics governance, management, advice, guidance, training, ethics review, risk assessment, and the co-ordination of evidence based recognition of the RI Concordat. - News
UNITED2ACT Summit
Nature has published a report on the UNITED2ACT Summit held in May and organised by COPE and STM. Stakeholders from across the research integrity spectrum gathered to discuss solutions to the paper mill problem. “It was the first time we had a group of people come together and co-create a set of actions which… - Case
Peer reviewer contacted by author
…manuscript revision. During this conversation, to avoid having to pretend to go over their own suggestions as if they were from someone else, the reviewer disclosed that they were one of the reviewers. The author and reviewer discussed how to improve the manuscript, and at this point, the reviewer offered to assist with new statistical analyses they had recommended and become a co-author, which was… - Case
Possible peer review manipulation
A journal received a complaint by one of the co-authors of an article submitted by a research team, stating that one of the reviewers suggested by the corresponding author sent an email to corresponding author asking them to tell them what comments they should insert in their review. In response, the corresponding author asked the co-authors to propose comments to be sent to the reviewer. One… - News
Research Cluster in Applied Research Ethics & Integrity
Chris Graf, COPE co-Chair is giving the keynote speech at this conference on at the University of Kent (UK) on 4 April 2018. The conference will formally launch the Cluster to University of Kent students and… - Case
Suspected fabrication of data
A reviewer expressed suspicion that data were manufactured. We wrote to the authors saying that our reviewer would like to see the original data. The author replied that this research was carried out in the USA. We then wrote back suggesting that his co-workers in the US would probably be delighted that this work was being submitted for publication and would happily send over the data but that…