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Peer Review Week 2021
Peer Review Week 2021, September 20-24, is dedicated to the theme: Identity in Peer Review This year’s event is dedicated to the theme "Exploring the multifaceted role of identity in peer review". During the week, participating organisations will host virtual events and activities exploring the multifaceted… - Webform
COPE authorship workshop 10 February 2021
…format The authorship workshop event page has details of the workshop format and Cases that will be covered. Alternative date This authorship workshop is also being held on 24 February 2021, 09:00 - 10:30 AM (GMT). You… - News
COPE authorship workshop February 2021
…Online cases workshop for COPE members only Wednesday 10 February 2021 15:00-16:30pm (GMT); 10.00-11.30am (EST) Wednesday 24 February 2021 09:00-10:30am (GMT); 17.00-18.30pm (AWST); 20.00-21.30pm (AEDT) Following on from the success of our virtual workshops last year, COPE is delighted to announce an online workshop on… - News
Addressing the issues in peer review - LSE Impact Blog post
Post on LSE Impact Blog by Elizabeth Moylan and Charon Pierson "Addressing the issues in peer review - new guidelines available from COPE". - Event
COPE Forum November 2017
…agenda for the COPE Forum on Monday 13 November: 1. Update on COPE activities by the Chair 2. Forum discussion: Self-citation: where's the line? 3. New cases 17-11 Authorship dispute unsatisfactorily resolved by institution (JM) 17-12 Potential figure manipulation with corresponding author uncontactable (JM) 17-13 Unhelpful institution report… - News
Announcement of COPE Council elections
Due to vacancies on Council, we are seeking nominations for two new candidates. These are voluntary positions. Council is responsible for COPE’s policy and management. Council members are required to attend four meetings a year (two of which will usually be in person in London; the others may be attended by phone or other media). There is also a strategy meeting every 18/24 months which… - Event
Publication ethics: fraud and misconduct
This ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) Training Course has been developed in collaboration with COPE. Full details can be found on the ALPSP’s website ALPSP are pleased to offer this course to all COPE members at the discounted ALPSP… - Event
COPE Seminar: AN INTRODUCTION TO PUBLICATION ETHICS
…href="http://www.ismte.org/">ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), on Monday 12 October 2015 at the Park Inn Hotel London Heathrow, 10am–4pm. For more details and to register, see here.… - News
COPE Forum Meetings 2016
The quarterly COPE Forum meetings, where we discuss cases submitted by members, will take place in Februray, May, August and November. The Forums will be by webinar, except for the August Forum, which will be a face to face meeting in London during the INANE conference. 3-4.30pm (GMT) Friday 12 February 2016 by Webinar8-9.30am (BST) Friday 6 May 2016 by Webinar2-3.30pm… - News
Annual Scientific Congress of Iranian Society of Medical Editors in association with COPE
COPE is very pleased to announce that it will have its first international congress on publication ethics in Shiraz, Iran, 24–25 November 2011. The congress is in association with the Iranian Society of Medical Editors and is supported by Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The meeting will be held in the five star Homa Hotel ( - Research
Retractions research project 2008
…journals retract articles? An analysis of Medline retractions 1988–2008' was published online first on 12 April 2011. See: - News
Editing Medical Journals: Short Course
Date: 10-12 November 2010 Location: Oxford, UK Website: http://www.pspconsulting.org Now in its 13th year, this short course for Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Board members and managing editors helps build skills and awareness of what it means to be a journal editor and how to make your journal successful. The course covers: how to… - Event
Update on publication guidelines and insights from AMWA, EMWA and ISMPP
The International Society of Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) invites members of COPE to a special educational webinar focused on medical publication guidelines, on Wednesday, January 28th, 11:00am – 12:30pm EST. The webinar will feature representatives from ISMPP, the American Medical Writers Association ( - News
Data Sharing Policies in Scholarly Publications: Interdisciplinary Comparisons
Download pdf of poster COPE-funded research, presented as an abstract at the Peer Review Congress, 10-12 September 2017, Chicago. We are follow up this COPE funded research by producing a discussion document on the issues surrounding data sharing policies and this is expected… - 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
EASE/ISMTE joint meeting
…Andre Van Steirteghem and council memebers Mirjam Curno and Irene Hames will be chairing the workshop. The workshop will take place on Tuesday 24 September. The full programme can be found here: http://www.ease.org.uk/node/872 Full details on the meeting, including registration information, can be found here: - News
Forum discussion topic: Preprints: what are the issues?
…sciences, have seen rapid growth in the number of preprints. To date there have been few public discussions around the ethics of making unverified research available in this way and there are a number of issues that arise. This will be discussed at the start of the next COPE Forum on Monday 24 July 2017. Members and non-members please leave comments. - Case
The disgraced author
An editorial was commissioned from a distinguished doctor who was subsequently found guilty of research misconduct overseas. There was a lack of consensus in the journal’s country as to whether this judgment was correct. The author continues to work, but is awaiting a judgment from his regulatory body. - Should the editorial be published? - Should the editorial be published with a footnote refe… - News
COPE awards research grant to the EQUATOR group
The research project, entitled ‘What instructions and guidance do journals provide to their reviewers to assess submitted manuscripts? : A survey with particular emphasis on the use of reporting guidelines’, aims to survey journals’ instructions… - Case
Possible duplicate publication?
A journal accepted a paper and then discovered that a very similar paper by the same authors had been published in another journal the previous year. The latter journal carried the piece as a short report while the former planned to publish it as a full paper. The full paper carries extended research on oral and maxillofacial surgeons while the short report looks only at attitudes of den…