- Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2020: Understanding text recycling
…and the authors feel that citing their prior work may result in excessive self-citation (a different ethical issue), authors are not required to cite that recycled material. 2. What about the reuse of abstracts and copyright? These seem to have a de facto status of fair use (they appear on PubMed and many other websites). Can we say that reusing abstracts is always fair… - Forum discussion topics
Predatory publishing: next steps and where do we go from here?
…-practice-scholarly-publishing">Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing may be considered the de facto standards for membership among organisations, such as COPE, OASPA, DOAJ, and WAME, but this would be a proactive advancement of these principles, not just as membership criteria but as global standards for publication integrity. Should COPE and/or other… - News
In the news: February Digest
…used to de-legitimise disciplines. To combat this, the authors urge journal editors to experiment with variations of open peer review, which they define broadly, in order to shine light on the peer review process. Such a step would differentiate legitimate peer review journals from predatory journals, for which such light would likely only illuminate a void. - News
Citations: Link, Locate, Discover, Connect
…analysis. Suppression of a journal from a given year of the JCR is not an evaluation of cause, only a assessment of effect; therefore suppression from JCR does not always result in de-selection from Science Citation Index Expanded or the Social Sciences Citation Index. Evaluation of the metrics accuracy and evaluation of Editorial contribution are separate. Citation ethics as a community… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: December 2018
…href="http://www.ombudsman-fuer-die-wissenschaft.de/?L=1" target="_blank">Ombudsman für die Wissenschaft) symposium about good scientific practice, and the annual conference of the UK Research Integrity Office. These events in particular were fantastic places for COPE people to listen to what people from universities and research institutions think about publishing… - News
Welcome new COPE members April-June 2019
Welcome to our new members who have joined COPE between April and June 2019. The new members have been assessed against criteria outlined in the Principles of Transparency and signing up to COPE shows that they intend to follow the highest standards of publication ethics and to apply COPE principles of publication ethics outlined in the - News
Case Discussion: Lack of trial registration leads to new concerns about study conduct and ethical review/approval
…In addition, we do not know if the published study represents the outcome-analysis part of the main trial, a secondary analysis (eg, studying secondary outcomes or an additional analysis of a subgroup of participants), or an independent post-hoc study using anonymised and de-identified samples. Additional ethical approval and participant consent, or a formal waiver of approval and consent, may… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2021: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…journals. These are typically made by early career researchers, with less experience; comments on this please. Deborah: There is some counter-evidence to this, with a journalistic report published recently showing that many German…