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Letter from the COPE Chair: December 2019
…future prognostications. To the extent that they predicted continued complexity and uncertainty in all things human, they were not taking too great a leap into the unknown. In last year’s last December Digest letter, then co-Chairs, Geri and Chris, quoted from their predecessor Chair, Dr. Ginny Barbour (2015) who observed “We need a culture of responsibility for the integrity of the literature.… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: October 2020
Dear Readers, I begin this month’s letter to you with the sad news that COPE Council Member, Dr Tracey Bretag, passed away this month. We refer you to our testimony about Tracey in this edition of Digest. We also say… - News
In the news: March & April 2022
…="https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/process-towards-agreement-reforming-research-assessment-2022-jan-18_en">join a coalition on reforming research assessment. Ethical oversight What does a Director of Research Integrity do? An interview with Sabina Alam of T&F. Clarivate has a 1-hour online course for editors, authors and peer reviewers about - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: January 2021
…topics of interest to our membership. At our COPE Forum in December, we held an exploratory discussion of what COPE and other industry organisations might do to further our individual and collective stance against predatory publishing. Dr Kelly Cobey described an authenticator project for… - News
In the news: February 2022
…-annual-meeting-part-4">comment on the presentations with context and reflections. Research integrity A book by Dr. Stuart Ritchie, Science Fictions, presents an insider’s view on how fraud, bias, negligence, and hype affect scientific research, and undermine the search for truth. A UK… - Research
CrossCheck guidance: an analysis of typical cases of plagiarism in different disciplines 2010
…disciplines when using CrossCheck. For authors, these lists can act as an instruction for authors on plagiarism, from which they can learn more about plagiarism and CrossCheck, and know how to avoid being accused of plagiarism. This research project was proposed by Professor Yuehong (Helen) Zhang and Dr Xiaoyan JIA, and will be conducted by them and their team (editors: Hanfeng Lin, Ziyang Zhai,… - Seminars and webinars
Good Publication Practice 2022
December 2022 Dr Trevor Lane, COPE Trustee and Council member, was invited to deliver a presentation introducing COPE’s mission and resources at the 2022 Forum on Good Publication Practice, held virtually on 2 December 2022. Hosted by the University of… - Event
COPE Lightning Talk: AI
…forward. Dr Marie Soulière Marie will showcase how Frontiers use AI tools to help maintain quality and research integrity across the journals, including real-life examples of misconduct cases caught by their algorithms… - News
Reducing the inadvertent spread of retracted science
…="https://osf.io/5z2n4/?view_only=c7e1c5ecb59f4b81962700a298dc0326">https://osf.io/5z2n4/?view_only=c7e1c5ecb59f4b81962700a298dc0326 Piller, Charles (2021). Many scientists citing two scandalous COVID-19 papers ignore their retractions. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg5806 Dr.Jodi Schneider (PI), Assistant Professor, School of… - News
In the news: July & August 2022
…Some see it as a symbolic step in the right direction that might inspire change elsewhere. Dr. Matthew Schrag of Vanderbilt University notes that "You can’t cheat to cure a disease. Biology doesn’t care." He is a whistleblower regarding image manipulation concerns… - News
In the news: October 2018 Digest
…6-5 with 1 abstaining to expel Dr. Peter GØtzsche the director of the Nordic Cochrane Center. Four of the 5 members of the board who voted against this subsequently resigned and 2 appointed trustees stepped down for administrative reasons. The reason given by the board is that Dr. GØtzsche exhibited a “long-term pattern of behavior that we say is totally, and utterly at variance with [Cochrane’s]… COPE webinar: Allegations of misconduct
…src="/files/u1069951/thumb_Susan_Garfinkel_pic.jpg" style="width: 90px; height: 90px; margin: 5px; float: left;" /> Susan Garfinkel, Assistant Vice President for Research Compliance, Ohio State University, Ohio Dr Susan Garfinkel is currently the Assistant Vice President for Research Compliance at the Ohio State University.She serves as the senior coordinator for research misconduct and assists in coordinating…- News
Guest editorial: Tackling paper mills
…a publisher, supporting the academics on our Editorial Boards to feel confident in the submissions they were handling was essential. We approached Dr Elisabeth Bik, an independent research integrity consultant, who provided our Editorial Board with useful insights into how she and other ‘scientific sleuths’ are able to identify data and ethical issues, as… - News
In the news: July 2021
…linking research that successfully, or unsuccessfully, attempts to reproduce the research and build collective data on replication work. Open Science advocates push for pre-registration of research methodology as well and constantly monitor for retractions. Research misconduct Dr. Elisabeth Bik - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
…Cooperation and Liaison between Universities and Editors (CLUE) guidelines Time on recording : 02:15-13:25 Dr Sabine Kleinert discussed the problems publishers have liaising with institutions when investigating potential misconduct, and the different perspectives of publishers and institutions. Sabine went on to share the - News
Conflicts of interest focus
…what needs to be disclosed by all parties, including type of competing interest, extent, and recency. As Dr Neville Gibbs reminds us in a past COPE seminar presentation, transparency is key. Relevant conflicts of interest can go beyond funding source and commercial and/or personal financial gain. An acid test is… - News
WCRI 2019: Transparency 2025 panel
…Transparency 2025: A panel discussion on new ideas to promote transparency in research* This panel presentation was held on the last day of the conference and included short presentations and responses to questions by Professor Ginny Barbour (Director, Australasian Open Access Strategy Group), Dr Maura Hiney (Head of Post-Award and Evaluation Health Research Board… COPE webinar: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…href="https://transformativeplay.ics.uci.edu/Tess-Tanenbaum/">Tess Tanenbaum (she/her) is an assistant professor at the University of California in the Department of Informatics. Over the past couple of years, Dr Tanenbaum has played a critical role in advocating for and informing trans inclusive name change policies. She will share the longer term vision and goals around name changes in scholarly publishing.- News
In the news: February Digest
…="_blank">https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/01/14/guest-post-i-say-tom-ay-to-you-say-tom-ah-to-bias-against-non-native-english-speakers-in-scholarly-communications/ Data science Dr. Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics at Harvard and Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Data Science Review was interviewed by Roger Schonfeld about data science and its growing role in research, education and daily life. - News
In the news: April 2021
…is to help build peer reviewer competency to benefit not only the reviewer but the quality of papers published. Authorship Dr. Helen Kara offers a useful guide to social science researchers on the pleasures and pain of co-authorship, and references COPE…