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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
Artificial intelligence in the news
…and we are now entering a phase of greater scrutiny and accountability. There are several legal cases open in the US and the UK challenging the use of copyrighted material… - News
Case discussion: gift authorship
…href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4548528/">Elizabeth Wager et al (Peer J, 2015) identified 24 prolific authors each publishing at least 25 articles per year. In contrast, the threshold of 72 papers per year (>1 every 5 days) was used as a baseline for “hyperprolific authorship” in a report by John Ioannidis et al in Nature in 2018. The report provided… - 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… - News
Paper mills in the news
…of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, titled Paper Mills and Research Misconduct: Facing the Challenges of Scientific Publishing. Discussing the current and future challenges in securing scientific literature from fraud, Chris Graf and Jennifer Byrne contributed to the hearing, alongside Dr. Brandon Stell, Neuroscientist at… - News
In the news: January 2019 Digest
…the Chief Medical Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. José Baselga, has failed to follow AACR disclosure rules on payments from corporations, on multiple articles he has published whilst President of the AACR and Editor in Chief of one of their journals. - News
In the news: December 2018 Digest
…focus for 2019 will be research integrity. Peer review An editor at JAMA-Pediatrics wrote a nice overview on peer review for the lay readership of The New York Times. He highlighted the potential pitfalls and benefits, in fact Dr. Carroll titled his paper " - News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…Major philanthropic organizations, like the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust don’t yet require sharing of results. The reason for concern per Dr.Bruckner: over $85 billion invested into medical research goes to waste every year because results are not available. http://www.peah.it/2018/05/5322/ On May 25th, the EU’s General Data Protection… - Case
Concerns over research by an author in numerous, separate publications
…was a legitimate Dr K and wondered if the other person was an imposter.… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2020: Understanding text recycling
…a paragraph with such phrases placed in quotation marks as an example, and then send those to the editor in a pre-publication query to see what they really expect. 6. As Dr. David Hansen explained, rights are accorded to the authors as per the Fair Use sections of the law--and the publisher contracts somehow put a check on those rights as the authors give away all those rights to the…