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COPE North American Seminar August 10, 2016 'Ethics in peer review'
COPE is delighted to announce its 7th North American Seminar, which will be held in collaboration with ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), on Wednesday August 10, 2016, at the Hilton Philadelphia City… - Event
COPE 25th anniversary seminar, 2022
Our 2022 COPE Seminar was a celebration of 25 years of COPE, as we launched University and Research Institute Membership. The theme of the seminar is “Creating a culture of publication integrity together” and begins with a keynote address by John B Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, followed by a panel discussion on the importance of a partnership between… - Event
National Academy of Sciences Meeting
…occurrence, and monitored for improvement. Arthur M. Sackler Public Lecture In conjunction with this colloquium, Randy Schekman will present the 17th Annual Arthur M. Sackler Lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public. - News
Think. Check. Submit. Survey 2018
…href="https://thinkchecksubmit.org/" target="_blank">Think. Check. Submit. wants to ensure that the initiative is as useful as possible to researchers, librarians and others around the world so we invite you to complete this short survey about your experiences with Think. Check. Submit. and what would make the initiative more useful to you. This survey will be open until 28th September 2018 and should take about 10… - News
Attention COPE members! Changes to the website
…This suspension will begin next Monday (24th January). We anticipate that members will be able to log into the new website by 21st February, but we will contact you again to let you know of our progress. We apologise for this inconvenience but we hope you will be pleased with the new design which will make it easier for members to navigate the site and to access the resources more quickly. - Event
Peer Review: The nuts & bolts workshop (Sense About Science)
Sense About Science is now taking applications for a peer review workshop in Newcastle on Thursday 5th September. To express your interest in attending, email Victoria [email protected]. Peer Review: The nuts & bolts is a half-day workshop for early career researchers and will explore how… - Event
Sixth Regional Conference on Medical Journals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMMJ6)
IMPORTANT UPDATEThe 6th Regional Conference on Medical Journals (EMMJ6) has been postponed to later in the year and revised dates are currently being planned. The Sixth Regional Conference on Medical Journals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMMJ6) will be held in Cairo, Egypt 1–4 September 2013. EMMJ6 is jointly organized by the - Seminars and webinars
Good Publication Practice 2022
…Macau, China, and the Macau Pharmacology Association, the forum was attended by authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers, as well as delegates of two concurrent conferences (the 4th Sino-CPLP Symposium on Natural Products and Biodiversity Resources and the International Forum on Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry). The purpose of the 3-hour event was to provide an update of… - Event
COPE North American seminar
COPE is delighted to announce our 5th North American seminar, which will be held in collaboration with - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: September 2019
The 16th-20th of September is Peer Review Week, with this year's theme Quality In Peer Review. This is now an anticipated time in the calendar for many of our members around the world and a number of events focus on issues related to peer review and publication ethics and integrity. As a long time editor of journals and books, I know… - Case
Withdrawing from authorship
…a different institution. A suggestion for the editor was to ask the author why he wishes to be removed from the article. The presenter of the case confirmed that the author signed the agreement in good faith and that the signature was genuine. Hence the author signed and consented to publication. According to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines (4th criteria),… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: June 2019
…consensus on a definition of the phenomenon and a commitment to one stop shopping for information on predatory publishing. Recently, I presented on a plenary session held at the World Congress on Research Integrity (#WCRI2019). The session addressed predatory publishing with three… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 9 December 2014: Publication ethics issues in the social sciences
Background The history of research ethics in general and publication ethics more specifically was initially and primarily grounded in the biomedical sciences. As concern over issues of animal care, human participant protection and research integrity developed throughout the latter part of the 20th century, some members of the Social Sciences and Humanities communities… - News
COPE at Sense about Science workshop. Peer review: the nuts and bolts
On Friday April 27th, Sense about Science, Voice of Young Science and SAGE Publications hosted a workshop for early career researchers to find out more about peer review. The session began with group work… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: February 2022
Happy New Year! Or at least Happy Lunar New Year to all. I should also add a happy 25th anniversary to COPE. In 25 years of COPE, we have grown to reach broader and more diverse audiences who have an impact on integrity in research and its publication, and this year we will introduce universities and research institutes to the fold. Over the coming months, we will be reaching out… - News
In the news: March & April 2022
…="https://webofscienceacademy.clarivate.com/learn/course/external/view/elearning/147/an-introduction-to-ethical-publishing-behavior">ethical issues in research. Research integrity Research Integrity on the 7th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) discusses some of the guidance developed from previous WCRIs. What are the… FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…Publication ethics issues in the social sciences BackgroundThe history of research ethics in general and publication ethics more specifically was initially and primarily grounded in the biomedical sciences. As concern over issues of animal care, human participant protection and research integrity developed throughout the latter part of the 20th century, some…- Case
Possible suppression of data
…December 4th. The matter is also being investigated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.… - Case
Unauthorised use of data
A multicentre study conducted with a working group involving 38 centres was published in our journal. Author A was a member of one of the centres and was listed as the 13th author in the article. Another colleague (author B) who is not a coauthor and who works in the same department as author A, contacted our journal and claimed that the data from the centre used by author A in the study were… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: March 2019
Early in my academic career I was sent a publication in which my name appeared as a 5th author. The research was legitimate, conducted by a senior colleague, and I had participated in a small part of the research. I had not been involved in the writing of the paper, its final approval, or in signing the copyright agreement. I went to the faculty member who had written and submitted the…