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Guest editorial: Data availability statements
…Hussey (Hussey, 2023), “the presence of Data Availability Statements that are not adhered to or enforced in any way risks giving rise to what is referred to as ‘Openwashing’: the appearance of transparency without adequate follow-through.” ---------------------------- COPE comment COPE members represent a wide diversity of opinions and the purposes of COPE Guest Editorials… - Case
Inappropriate authorship on students paper
…journal’s instructions to authors stating that the names and contact details of all authors (not just the corresponding author) should be provided to the journal on submission of a paper. The editor could also consider publishing the list of contributors, detailing what contribution each author made to the paper. FOLLOW UP (June 2012): I first wrote to the corresponding author… - News
In the news: January 2018 Digest
….com/blog/scientific-peer-review-ineffective-and-unworthy-institution These recommendations from three national academies on good practice in peer reviewing researchers and research are also relevant to journals peer review.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08289-z - News
In the news: March Digest
…retractions of their own work, as well as adding a section describing study limitations to all published articles. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/leap.1282 COPE Council Member Rachel Safer… - News
COPE in 2023
…href="/about/council/daniel-kulp">Dan Kulp, COPE Chair Nancy Chesheir COPE Vice-Chair Natalie Ridgeway, COPE Executive Officer ----------- The definition of regulatory from the Cambridge Business… - Case
Professional misconduct of one author
Update in 2023: COPE is currently working on guidance for cases of Author Behavioural Misconduct. See the Forum discussion for an introduction to the topic: … - News
Artificial intelligence: Lightning talk summary
…href="https://publicationethics.org/publication-integrity-week-2023/ai-peer-review">AI and peer review Publication Integrity Week video, 2023 … - News
Case Discussion: Ethics of non-active management of a control group
…publication ethics in the news and upcoming events. … - News
Case Discussion: Withdrawal of paper at proof stage
…="https://publicationethics.org/news/new-cope-audit">https://publicationethics.org/news/new-cope-audit. Case Discussion This archived COPE Forum case is categorised under two COPE Core Practices: Allegations of Misconduct, which states: “Journals should have a clearly described process for handling allegations, however they are brought to the journal's or publisher’s attention. Journals must take… - News
In the news: May 2018 Digest
…-research-behemoth">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/expectations-are-high-ukri-united-kingdom-s-new-6-billion-research-behemoth COPE Council members Nancy C Chescheir and Deborah Kahn Read COPE Digest newsletter for more advice and resources to support your conlicts… - News
New Members: July-October 2019
…href="https://publicationethics.org/members/ultrasound-journal">The Ultrasound Journal Toxicological Research Tropical Ecology Vegetos World Affairs - Forum discussion topics
Ethical considerations around watchlists
…data-cke-saved-href="https://publicationethics.org/events/cope-forum-march-2024" href="https://publicationethics.org/events/cope-forum-march-2024">FORUM AGENDA & REGISTER --! Your comments Whether or not you can attend the COPE Forum, we invite you to add comments here. You must be logged in to leave a comment on the COPE website. If you are not a member of COPE you can - News
In the news: October 2018 Digest
…="_blank">http://blog.inasp.info/address-geographical-diversity-peer-review-include-southern-voices/ Sci-Hub “Sci-Hub is not just stealing PDFs. They’re phishing, they’re spamming, they’re hacking, they’re password-cracking, and basically doing anything to find personal credentials to get into academic institutions. While illegal access to published content is the most obvious target, this is just the tip of an iceberg concealing underlying efforts to steal multiple streams of… Text Recycling: Forum discussion topic March 2013
…Read the summary of the text recycling Forum discussion,held on 12 March 2013 ----- Self-- News
In the news: December 2018 Digest
…published between 2015 and 2017, about 2/3 included statements on funding and conflicts of interests and about 20% mentioned publicly available data. In a similar study from 2000 to 2014, very few papers included this type of information. COPE Council member Nancy Chescheir - News
Case discussion: Suspected plagiarism
…from the author? • How long should we wait for a response from the author before reporting to the institute? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case discussion This case is categorised as a violation of Intellectual Property (IP) standards, which is a - News
In the news: August
…Vance Lemmon, whose lab studies axon regeneration following injuries to the spinal cord. Dr Lemmon aims to increase research efficiency, reproducibility, and innovation. https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/emergent-data-community-spotlight/ COPE Council member - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2022: Relationship between universities and publishers
…services. Jennifer was previously a postdoctoral researcher in ecology and climate science, and also holds an MBA from Cranfield University. Sabina Alam is the Director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity at Taylor…