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Withdrawal of paper at proof stage
An original paper was submitted to our journal. After peer review, the authors were requested to revise the paper, and the revision was submitted back to the journal. Our manuscript editor accepted the paper. The paper was scheduled for publication 3 months later after copyediting was completed. We informed the corresponding author about acceptance of the paper and sent them the typeset… - News
Audio versions of December Forum cases now online
You can now listen to the cases presented at the December COPE Forums in audio. Listen to the full discussion and hear how the Forum members debated the issue and the conclusions they arrived at. The December cases start from Case Number 11-23 (Possible… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2017: Arts, humanities, and social sciences. What do we need from COPE?
At the 2017 COPE European Seminar, Deborah Kahn, Publishing Director of Medicine and Open Access at Taylor & Francis presented her thoughts on what the arts, humanities and social sciences need from an organisation such as COPE. … - News
AGM 2017
At COPE's recent AGM in November, Zoë Mullan, Ginny Barbour, Sally Weatherill and Adrian Ziderman stepped down as Trustees of COPE, at the end of their term. It is only possible to do the work of COPE with our hugely committed Trustees and we thank them for all their work. Mirjam Curno was re-elected to a seond… - Case
Article published at two journals after withdrawal from first journal
…B contacted Journal A to clarify this matter. Journal A confirmed that the authors had submitted the article, which has gone through multiple rounds of peer review and been accepted by Journal A. Journal A further stated that after acceptance the authors were sent a PDF proof to check before publication. At this point, the authors requested withdrawal of their article citing the reason that their funder… - News
COPE at COMPARE Life Sciences Workshop on Authorship, UK
…contributions, e.g. with emerging standards such as the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT). Key themes emphasised were the need to discuss potential authorship roles early in a project, to have conversations, for co-authors to speak up, and for transparency at… - Event
Ask COPE
The next Ask COPE session will be Tuesday 11 November at 2pm (GMT). For more details, click here.… - Event
Ask COPE
The next Ask COPE session will be Wednesday 21 January at 3pm (GMT). For more details, click here. … - News
Standards in authorship webinar
On Thursday 29 June 2-3pm we're holding our first webinar for information, shared discussion and practical advice on common authorship issues faced by COPE members. Three guest speakers will present their views: Deborah Poff, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Academic Ethics; Kelly Cobey Senior Clinical Research Associate at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Liz Allen,… - News
Research Cluster in Applied Research Ethics & Integrity
Chris Graf, COPE co-Chair is giving the keynote speech at this conference on at the University of Kent (UK) on 4 April 2018. The conference will formally launch the Cluster to University of Kent students and… - Event
Tokyo University & Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
COPE council member Tracey Bretag will give two presentations on academic and research integrity in Japan, during which Tracey will speak about COPE guidance. These will be at Tokyo University on 'Academic integrity - why is it so important?' with an audience of postgraduate global and community health students. This will be followed… - Event
STM Research Integrity Master Class
Matt Hodgkinson, COPE Council Member, is speaking at STM's Research Integrity Master Class on 7 December 2022. Participants at the master class will learn about the latest trends in research integrity and help to shape the future of how we advance trusted research. Matt contributes to the master class sharing COPE guidelines and processes in dealing with integrity issues such as paper… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 11 September 2012: Publishing offensive material
The topic for discussion at this Forum was ‘Publishing offensive material’. Specifically, what constitutes bad taste, indecency or obscenity? How do you deal with expletives (as part of interviews or transcripts)? Where is the line between censorship and freedom of expression? - Event
INANE (International Academy of Nursing Editors): 2014 Annual Meeting
COPE Council members Charon Pierson and Geri Pearson will be holding a COPE Workshop at the meeting. Click here for more information.… - Event
COPE Australian Forum
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is holding a COPE Forum in Brisbane, on 14 November 2013 at: Don Carruthers eXchange Zone Level 5, Dorothy Hill Engineering and Sciences Library (building #50) The University of Queensland - St Lucia Campus Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia Building location: - Event
ISMTE European Conference 2019
Chris Graf, COPE Past co-Chair, will speak at ISMTE's European conference themed "Working together through change". The COPE session, Change and constants at COPE, will look at new ethical challenges facing journal editorial and… - Event
Ask COPE - 21 April 2015
The next Ask COPE will be held on Tuesday 21 April at 3pm (British Summer Time). See here for further details.… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2014: COPE case taxonomy
…Download presentation: COPE Case Taxonomy (PDF 552KB)… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2016: Publication ethics, a legal perspective
…Download presentation: Publication ethics: a legal perspective (PDF, 922 KB)… - Case
Boundaries of duplicate submission
…rejected in its current form, but a revision was invited. The authors requested an extension of the revision submission deadline at journal B, signalling an interest in pursuing a resubmission. Although the extension was granted, the authors ultimately elected not to revise the report for journal B, and instead pursued a resubmission to journal A. The revised paper was accepted and subsequently…