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Next COPE Forum 6 September 2011
…Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), 5-11 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8SH (http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/how-find-us/how-find-us). All COPE members are welcome to attend the meeting, whether or not they are presenting a case. Download the agenda and materials FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…part of a PhD or other academic thesis which has been published according to the requirements of the institution awarding the qualification." American Chemical Society “Publishing policies” http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/prior/index.html (varies by journal on attitude to theses as prior publication). This will be…- Seminars and webinars
WCRI 2019: Preprints and their place in the publication ethics landscape
…(COPEand American Chemical Society) introduced the COPE discussion document on preprints and shared COPE’s recommendations for authors, journals, publisher, and preprint… - News
In the news: March 2018 Digest
…href="http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-amp0000263.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-amp0000263.pdf Sabina Leonelli highlights concerns over how big and open data are currently managed and how these concerns might be addressed - Case
Lack of acknowledgement of contributor
…involving about 23 lines of duplication. While this represents a small percentage (about 4%) of the total number of lines in the paper, because they duplicated lines from some version of the A/C paper, the editor believes there was a moral obligation on A and the new author (B) to acknowledge the earlier paper and/or the collaborative efforts of C. However, A claims that (1) s/he wrote all of the… - News
In the News: July Digest
…for improvement.http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/06/14/journal-data-sharing-policies-are-moving-the-scientific-community-towards-greater-openness-but-clearly-more-work… COPE webinar: Current Issues in Peer Review
…/>Heather Tierney, Managing Editor, Journals and Ethics Policy, American Chemical Society and COPE Council Member Heather is Managing Editor, Journals and Ethics Policy, at the American Chemical Society (ACS). In addition to managing the ACS’s two flagship review journals, Accounts of Chemical Research and Chemical…- Event
COPE Forum: April 2018
…/>18-02 Dispute between two authors (AC) 18-03 Editor and reviewers requiring authors to cite their own work (LJ) 18-04 License for a published scale (ES) 18-05 Undisclosed conflict of interest (GE) 18-06 Retrospective registration, outcome switching and ethical approval (EH) 4. Updates18-01 License for using a published scale - News
In the news: August
…their work accessible, will be able to navigate what they seem to review as faulty faculty promotion and tenure attitudes about OA publication. https://blogs.lse.ac… - News
WCRI 2019: Preprints and their place in the publishing ethics landscape
…href="https://www.cshlpress.com/" target="_blank">Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) spoke first and gave a history and background of preprints. Heather Tierney (COPE and American Chemical Society) introduced the - News
In the news: May Digest
…target="_blank">www.epigeum.com/courses/studying/academic-integrity In other news In this post, Rob Warren lays out empirical evidence from the field of Sociology showing that early career and PhD researchers are expected to publish more research and earlier in their careers than previous generations, if they are to secure a permanent job, and highlights two market trends driving this. - News
In the news: November Digest
…href="https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports" target="_blank">https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports A first-of-its-kind webinar “Advancing Science in Indonesia: Current Global Research Practices” was streamed by more than 1000 participants in 30 institutions. One of the participants discussed three strategies for promoting research credibility: Preregistration, Registered Reports, and Open Data… - News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…institutional performance and panel evaluation and peer review of individual performances. Siverstsen describes the variable adoption of PRFS’s in other European countries, typically without assessments at the individual level. http://blogs.lse.ac… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical authorship versus fraudulent authorship
…class="resource-download-inline__shadow"> Promoting ethical authorship for a positive research culture - News
In the news: April 2020
…="_blank">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/wiley-strikes-read-and-publish-deal-uk-universities Fundamental characteristics of open science do not translate to "open humanities". Marcel Knöchelmann argues that researchers in the humanities should develop a unified voice and vision for open humanities, without which they will be vulnerable to top-down reforms. - News
In the news: June Digest
…publication landscape is difficult and important and sometimes full of surprises. Witness the identification for 152 previously open access journals that have "reverse flipped" to a closed-access model. The authors suggest some possible explanations for this counter-prevailing practice phenomenon. - News
In the news: May 2018 Digest
…incentives, expert support, training, and the infrastructure to make easy and worth their while to share data.http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/04/16/we… - News
In the news: October Digest
…for assessing scientists in June 2019, tilting the evaluation process from the number of papers published to their importance. A month later, they released standards to address various standards for misconduct such as plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, authorship and duplicate or overlapping submissions. - News
In the news: December Digest
…of "open access". https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/11/11/if… - News
Artificial intelligence in the news
…href="http://pubs.acs.org/journal/aelccp">‘assisted-driving’ approach to AI: all content should be supervised and revised by a human author. Asking ChatGPT itself whether it fulfils all the ICMJE criteria for authorship produces a clear answer: no, it does not. The ethical risks of AI It is clear that tools like ChatGPT,