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A vision for a more trans-inclusive publishing world: guest article
…expose themselves to ridicule and discrimination, and to have to repeatedly negotiate sensitive and private issues of personal identity with editorial boards, publishers, co-authors, citing authors, and other parties who have no real stake in the situation. The alternative is that many trans authors instead choose to abandon their previous scholarship, which produces a break in the scholarly record… - News
Case Discussion: Withdrawal of paper at proof stage
…do not agree with the edited and typeset version, the author dispute/s would need to be resolved by the authors and re-editing could be negotiated with the journal. If the corresponding author loses faith in the integrity of the work and suspects co-author misconduct such as fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, unethical research, or bias from a conflict of interest, these issues also need to be… - News
Authorship and Contributorship focus: an editor view and research institution view
…Omissions from the author list Author inability to respond to reviewer comments Author disagreement around article corrections Unauthorized use of collaborator’s (or student/advisee’s) work Request to change author’s name after publication Submission of paper without consent of co-authors Conflicting claims of intellectual property Left… - News
In the news: May 2018 Digest
…review processes A wide ranging set of news items about peer review : A group of authors from Wiley including our co-chair Chris Graf, look at the expectations and experiences of various stakeholders in the peer review process and provide recommendations in each essential area of peer review practice, and provide a practical checklist. - Case
Plagiarism, double submission and reviewer ethicality
…stated above. One of the complaints was submitted in the form of a paper for publication; at present, this has not been sent out for review but is simply being treated as additional evidence/confirmation of plagiarism. (We have recently discovered that this paper has been posted on a web site devoted to plagiarism discussions.) Other points: The co-authorship has changed… - News
Diversity, equity, inclusivity and accessibility: COPE commentary
…build on our efforts. First, at our residential Trustee and Council meeting in June, we engaged a professional trainer to challenge us on our understanding of systemic bias and inclusive practice. We were asked to identify key areas in our work where we encounter unconscious bias and to identify these in ourselves. We discussed COPE’s sphere… History of COPE
…employment of more staff, and the growth in breadth was evident in COPE’s first South American seminar and its first European seminar held outside London, in Brussels, Belgium in 2014. 2017 to 2019 - translated resources, China seminar and Core Practices Chris Graf and Geri Pearson, the first Co-Chairs of COPE, led the China strategy, leading to COPE’s first China seminar in Beijing in…- News
Case discussion: Authors’ contributions and involvement by medical communications company
…are asked to assist with literature searches, qualitative or quantitative analyses, and narrative development of review papers, writing assistance might veer into (co)authorship because the reviewing, synthesis, and message development processes are themselves integral parts of a secondary research study. The extent of involvement depends on the nature and stage(s) of work and actual input and… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Authorship for sale
…Medicine, Croatia. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. Ana is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Global Health. Ana explains how small scientific journals can provide information on the root causes of this, giving insights into the inequalities present in the publishing system which force nations, researchers and journals to the peripheries of the mainstream… - News
Case Discussion: Inconclusive institutional investigation into authorship dispute - university perspective comment
…capacity to fully assess this information because other involved co-authors are employed at different institutions, these limitations should be communicated to the Editor. On the 1 July 2019, Australian institutional policies and procedures will need to be aligned to the revised - News
In the news: October-November 2021
…in Russia which sells co-authorship has also been recently identified. In China, funders are penalising researchers who buy fake papers, but there is more to be done to identify and sanction the researchers and the outfits that supply the papers. Data and reproducibility The FORCE11 Research Data Publishing Ethics… - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
…the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation and was co-chair of the 7th World Conference on Research Integrity, Cape Town, South Africa, 2022. Sabine qualified as a medical doctor in Germany and trained as a paediatrician and paediatric cardiologist in the UK, Belgium, Australia, the USA, and Australia. The issues will be discussed further at the - News
In the news: February Digest
…academic publishing activities. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/what-to-expect-in-the-publishing-world-in-2020--66882 In an open letter to cOAlition S leadership, co-signatories conclude after articulating problems for humanities and social science… - Forum discussion topics
What does peer review mean in the arts, humanities and social sciences?
…issue was raised again with respect to a study of Ebola in the Congo which was published with no Congolese co-authors. Other issues may have reference to dissimilarities with respect to disciplinary publication patterns and with the importance or lack of importance of matters such as citation and… - Forum discussion topics
Editorial conflicts of interest
…declare potential COIs whenever they submit (co)authored articles to their own journal? Should the declarations be published? Beyond declaration of editorial COIs, how should affected submissions be handled by the journal, and what other bias mitigation steps are needed? Forum discussion summary is not considered formal COPE policy but may be used to develop other types of COPE… - News
In the news: April 2018 Digest
…/03/29/a-new-publishing-approach-retract-and-replace-is-having-growing-pains/ Want to tell if a paper has been retracted? Good luck Researcher Caitlin Bakker was interviewed about a study she co-authored with Amy Riegelman. The authors looked at 144 papers that Retraction Watch had listed as retracted and found that only 10 were so identified across all platforms. None met all of the COPE recommendations - News
Case Discussion: Data fabrication in a rejected manuscript
…Case Summary Case 18-16 A journal rejected two manuscripts because of data fabrication, as confirmed by an inspection of the original patient data. Without the lead author knowing, the co-authors had fabricated the dataset after recruiting only… - News
In the news: May 2020
…should be co-authors, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Authorship criteria Further update on COVID-19 contingency planning. The REF team has written to heads of institutions to outline the UK higher education funding bodies’ current position in relation to… - News
In the news: October 2018 Digest
…particular, about vaccines. The most recent such publication was co-authored by GØtzsche and was a critique of a systematic review published by the Cochrane Collaborative of trials involving the human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is a very common sexually-transmitted virus. Some subtypes are strongly associated with (and perhaps almost a required trigger) for cervical cancer, penile cancer and some… Common ethical and editorial dilemmas of author misconduct: how should we respond?
…whole paragraphs? Has this been done before? Take care over co-authors, because one or two might have done this, but the other four named authors might have no idea that this has happened. Write separately to all of them. Can it be unintentional? Sometimes there's a language problem, or phrases from another paper get used. It's easy to do, and this needs to be…