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Case discussion: Authors’ contributions and involvement by medical communications company
…non-author names in the document ‘properties’. The Forum considered this case as clearly demonstrating ghost writing and advised rejecting the paper and asking the authors’ institution to investigate. To deal with the medical writer, the editor could check if s/he belongs to and follows codes of conduct of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), European Medical Writers Association (EMWA), or… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2022: Relationship between universities and publishers
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/daniel-kulp">Dan Kulp, COPE Chair, and Director of editorial development for journals, American Chemical Society (ACS). He received his PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for the American Physical Society for nearly 24 years in their editorial office. Dan has been involved in all aspects of publishing including peer review, production,… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…it as only ‘the least worst [system] we have’ and likened the outcomes to spinning a roulette wheel. He also reports that an earlier editor half-jokingly proposed throwing all the papers they received down the stairs and publishing those that reached the bottom. It seemed that we were doomed to live with a system which we simultaneously despair of, and can’t imagine doing without. But in July 2023,… - Forum discussion topics
Author behavioural misconduct
…these issues (e.g. the author harrassment webinar session with Randy Townsend from The American Geophysical Union). Publishers and editors may have to think about how and how far to offer support to authors who are in… Common ethical and editorial dilemmas of author misconduct: how should we respond?
…this is the secondary outcome, then it's up to the editor to decide if s/he wants to publish. But in many cases editors are not told, and find out only when the reviewer picks it up, or worse, when someone writes in after the article has been published. Is overlap worse than salami publishing? How much overlap is too much? Those are questions for reviewers to…The ethics of audit and research
…editor felt that s/he would have to report the individual to the appropriate body and not publish the paper, yet the answer provided by that piece of research was fundamentally important? It might be an unethical experiment, but it came up with a cure for AIDS? Should it still be published, because not to do so would have enormous implications? It's a balance of two…