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ISMPP webinar: Graphical Presentation of Data in Medical Publications
ISMPP invites you to attend this special 90-minute ISMPP University educational webinar, on Wednesday January 25 at 11 am ET/4 pm GMT. The webinar is free to all regardless of ISMPP membership status. Webinar attendees will learn from experts about how to integrate essential graphical presentation elements into medical publications. Figures, tables and images contribute to data interpretation… - News
COPE endorses GPP3
…"all clinical trials should be reported". GPP3 updates and helps to clarify earlier guidance from GPP2 and GPP. GPP3 is free to read at Annals of Internal Medicine and ISMPP's GPP3 website. Reference1. Battisti WP, Wager E, Baltzer L, Bridges D, Cairns A, Carswell CI, et… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 12 February 2016: Data sharing
Data sharing is increasingly viewed as an essential step in improving research transparency and reproducibility (Taichman et al, 2016; Vickers, 2006). There has been a lot of discussion on the imperative for data sharing in the biomedical arena, particularly of publically funded research. As a result, there are many disciplines where proposals for data sharing are being discussed. - News
Case discussion: gift authorship
…href="https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2014-44015-002.html">The Behavior Analyst Today, Daniel Shabani et al (2004) reported that the 53 most prolific authors in the field of behaviour sciences published an average of 2.9 articles per year between 1992 and 2001; the 11 most prolific authors published 4.2 articles per year. In an analysis of medical papers published from 2008 to 2012, FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…DATA SHARING Data sharing is increasingly viewed as an essential step in improving research transparency and reproducibility (Taichman et al, 2016; Vickers, 2006). There has been a lot of discussion on the imperative for data sharing in the biomedical arena, particularly of publicly funded research. As a result, there are many disciplines where proposals for data sharing are being…FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…rights and editorial pages. Question What is the best and most responsible general advice to provide to students and faculty on this question. References Ramirez ML, et al (2014). Do open access electronic theses and dissertations diminish publishing opportunities in the sciences? College and Research Libraries. 75[6]…- Research
Exploring publication ethics in the arts, humanities, and social sciences: A COPE study 2019
…Interdisciplinary; and Social Sciences to show which issues they each rated as most serious, frequent, and prevalent - and those they felt least confident addressing. The study also compares the responses of our AHSS respondents to those of STM journals in a study by Wager et… - News
In the news: December 2021
…this issue. The lead author, Helen Zhang, discusses the results in an interview with Scholarly Kitchen. Authorship and contributorship A light-hearted article entitled “ - Case
Citing a retracted paper
…one might quite reasonably want to cite some key retracted papers to illustrate the issues involved. However, it is very important to mark the paper as retracted in the reference section so this is clearly marked for readers (eg, Author AB, et al. RETRACTED: Title of article. Journal name. 2015, 100: 1-7.) … - News
In the news: February Digest
…foreign governments have initiated systematic programs to unduly influence and capitalize on US-conducted research”. In particular, concerns were raised about “data thieves” from China using methods such as shared intellectual property, “shadow labs” in China and pilfered biomedical secrets contained in presumably confidential NIH grant applications. FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…practice remain between journals” (Vaught et al., 2017). The COPE Retraction Guidelines describe when journals could use expressions of concern. For example, editors should consider an expression of concern if: • they receive inconclusive evidence of research or publication misconduct by the…- Seminars and webinars
Artificial intelligence and peer review
…to improve language, AI can reduce the risk of mis-evaluation of scholarly research and bring great benefits to the community. Back to top Further reading A survey of large language models Weixin Lang et al - News
In the news: April 2018 Digest
…is useless; (ii) many posted preprints may have been peer reviewed and rejected prior to posting on a preprint server—after perhaps responding to the original peer review process; the peer review process may have prevented flawed articles from being printed—or on preprint servers - News
Creating and implementing research data policies: COPE webinar report
…(Hrynaszkiewicz et al, 4 April 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/122929), an expert working group found commonalities among the publisher’s 2500 journals and consulted with editors, librarians, and funders. It defined a company-wide framework based on four data policy types: (1) Data sharing and data citation encouraged but not required;… - News
Editor to Editor support for Journal Management
…target="_blank">Oermann et al. 2018). Finally, INANE features an annual “Mentoring Editors Award” given to four new or aspiring nursing journal editors. First established in 2014, this award provides registration for our annual conference, and a mentoring relationship with an experienced Editor to assist in taking on the challenges of journal management. This program has far-reaching influence that… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: June 2018
…target="_blank">Whicher et al, 2015), who is correct and how is this resolved? This month’s Digest focuses on Ethical Oversight, one of the core principles of COPE. We define it as all activities involved in publishing, from consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, and ethical conduct of research with animals and humans to the ethical handling of data. COPE has a variety of resources… - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar 2018: Creating and implementing data research policies
…policies across all its journals since 2016. As reported in a preprint Standardising and harmonising research data policy in scholarly publishing (Hrynaszkiewicz et al, 4 April 2017), an expert working group found commonalities among the publisher’s 2500 journals and consulted with editors, librarians, and funders. It defined a company-wide… - News
In the news: December 2020
…such as impact factor, peer review, titles, journal reputation. Soderberg et al. surveyed researchers to understand how they assess the credibility of preprints and found that open content and independent verification of author claims are important factors. COPE Council Member and Digest Editor - Case
Suspect author
…approximately 12 years ago; it responded saying it saw no reason to investigate further. A letter, published in one of the specialty journals in 2000 by an independent researcher, asked the question “Why are author A et al’s data so nice?”, pointing out that the probability of such results occurring by chance were infinitesimally small, but as far as we know there have been no formal investigations of author… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…href="http://thinkchecksubmit.org/resources/peer-review/">What do we mean by 'peer review'? Think.Check.Submit Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM) Notes [1] The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor Sukbae Lee et al, arXiv (2023)