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All Elsevier journals become COPE members
…Editors will benefit from new partnership 13 February 2008 London, UK. The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is pleased to announce its partnership with Elsevier, publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. More than 2000 journals, the full collection of Health, Sciences and Science… - Event
COPE Forum
…unsatisfactorily resolved by institution (JM) 17-12 Potential figure manipulation with corresponding author uncontactable (JM) 17-13 Unhelpful institution report (SS) 17-14 Withdrawal request by an author (LS) 4. Updates 17-09 Lead author Forum agenda and materials Seminars
…="http://publicationethics.org/files/North%20American%20Seminar%202014_final%20program.pdf">Download PDF of the seminar programme) "New technologies and behavior for identifying publication ethics issues" The 2014 North American Seminar was held on Wednesday 13 August 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Persistent identifiers in the…- Case
Attempted plagiarism of a published report
A review paper covering the prevention of a certain type of infection was submitted to Journal A. One of the reviewers identified that the paper was based word for word on a report that had published guidelines on the same area. The authors of both pieces are different. The only significant differences between the submission and the original paper were in the introduction and conclusion. The ed… - Event
COPE Forum: Monday 5 November 2018
…18-11 Increased number of casual submissions 18-12 A pre-submission inquiry with a bribe 18-13 Self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing 18-14 Authorship conflict 18-15 Peer reviewer contacted by author 18-16 Data fabrication in a rejected manuscript 18-17 Possible plagiarism 18-18 Victim of article theft wants correction to list… - Event
COPE Forum: Monday 11 February 2019
…work 19-02 Dispute arising from peer review of a rejected comment and published correction 19-03 Possible plagiarism 19-04 Suspected plagiarism 4. Updates 18-08 Scientific misconduct claim from a whistleblower where the institution will not investigate 18-13 Self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing 18-15 Peer reviewer contacted… - Event
COPE Forum: Monday 11 November 2019, 4pm (GMT)
…topic whether or not you are planning on joining the Forum. 3. New cases 19-12 Appropriate scope of review for retractions 19-13 Reproducibility of methodology 19-14 Removal of an author 19-15 Authorship dispute during review process 4. Updates on cases 19-09 Deceased author 19-08 Authorship issue related to misleading… - News
J-STAGE Seminar, Japan
Trevor Lane, COPE Council Member, represented COPE at the Second J-STAGE Seminar in Tokyo, Japan, on 21 October 2019, at… - Case
Uncertain treatment of four patients following previous published experiments
A medically qualifed author submitted a paper in which he described the treatment of four cases of “pesticide poisoning presented as ME.”These four cases had doubtful sounding evidence of pesticide poisoning. The author treated them with a mixture of choline and ascorbic acid. He did this because: “Between the years 1968 and 1973 I had carried out a number of unpublished experiments on patie… - Case
Undeclared conflict of interest
…the editors. - The journal launched an investigation with the authors' knowledge, and in conjunction with the institution, where the research was conducted. This concluded that the first two allegations were unfounded. But the undisclosed conflict of interest allegation was upheld. Ten of the 13 co-authors subsequently issued a partial retraction and an investigation by the national regulatory body… - Event
COPE North American seminar
…'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">13 August 2014 at the - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 12 February 2016: Data sharing
…Publishers, including PLOS and the BMJ Publishing Group, that have implemented data sharing requirements have found that it is not trivial to do. A recent post on the Scholarly Kitchen discussed the costs and workforce issues that could result from making data sharing… - Event
Workshop: Introduction to publication ethics
…href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C0ovpFo_Sp2BeULr2AyfBA#/registration">REGISTER TODAY --> Introduction to publication ethics Monday 26 February 2024, 12:00-13:30 GMT / UTC This workshop is an introduction to the principles of publication ethics and how to use the guidance and tools available to embed publication ethics in a journal's daily practice. Trevor Lane and Anubhav Pradhan review the Ethics Toolkit and other COPE resources,… - Case
Dispute over submitted comment and the right to be forgotten
Some time after publishing a paper, a journal received a comment highlighting serious issues with the methods reported, and claiming that the conclusions could not be trusted. The comment was 13 pages long and rather technical in nature, so it was peer reviewed. The journal contacted the authors to respond to the comment but they replied that they wished instead to completely… - Case
Registration of a randomised control trial
…/04/15/retrospectively-registered-trials-editors-dilemma/ https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-016-1310-8 Authorship and AI tools
…href="https://publicationethics.org/news/challenge-ai-chatbots-journal-editors">The challenge of AI chatbots for journal editors, guest editorial, February 2023 COPE position statements Page history First published: 13 February 2023…FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…discussed. Publishers, including PLOS and the BMJ Publishing Group, that have implemented data sharing requirements have found that it is not trivial to do. A recent post on the Scholarly Kitchen (- Event
COPE Forum: July 2023
…will be held at 12:00-13:30pm (BST / UTC+1) 1. Update on COPE activities Update on COPE activities by the Chair. 2. Forum discussion topic We begin the COPE Forum with a discussion on the topic of Best practices for guest edited collections. - Case
Authorship dispute
An article was published with three authors’ names. Not all of the authors’ signatures had been included on the original submission letter. A complaint was lodged by Y, who said that X had submitted the paper without either his or Z’s consent or knowledge, and that there were several specific errors and omissions. Y then submitted a statement for publication in the journal dissociating himself… - Event
6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), Hong Kong, 2019
…Research Board, Ireland, Dublin Ginny Barbour, Australasian Open Access Strategy Group, Brisbane Margie Jantti, Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL), Wollongong Frederick Leung, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 13:30 – 15:00 Plenary G Predatory publishing and other challenges of new models to share knowledge (Grand Hall) Chair: Susan…