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Exploring publication ethics in the arts, humanities, and social sciences: A COPE study 2019
…al in 2009. There is the opportunity to build on these research findings by sharing your feedback.… - News
In the news: March 2018 Digest
Included in the news this month are articles related to March's theme of "Authorship and Contributorship", together with conflicts of interest, data and reproducibility, ethical oversight and peer review Authorship A paper recently published in… - News
Guest article: Self-plagiarism in philosophy
…-sexually-assaulted-journal-retracts-paper-duplication/" target="_blank"> retractions. I am hopeful that the situation is improving. The increase in published corrections in the last few years is good sign. - Case
Citing a retracted paper
…one might quite reasonably want to cite some key retracted papers to illustrate the issues involved. However, it is very important to mark the paper as retracted in the reference section so this is clearly marked for readers (eg, Author AB, et al. RETRACTED: Title of article. Journal name. 2015, 100: 1-7.) … - News
Paper mills in the news
…Univ. Sydney), “Scientific fraud: whose problem is it?" by Dorothy Bishop (Prof. of Developmental Neuropsychology, Univ. Oxford), and “The publishers´ perspective of fraud & fake in scientific publishing” by Chris Graf (Research Integrity Director, Springer/Nature). The collection of videos and presentations are available on the Open Science Workshop Materials of… FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…practice remain between journals” (Vaught et al., 2017). The COPE Retraction Guidelines describe when journals could use expressions of concern. For example, editors should consider an expression of concern if: • they receive inconclusive evidence of research or publication misconduct by the…- Seminars and webinars
Artificial intelligence and peer review
…to improve language, AI can reduce the risk of mis-evaluation of scholarly research and bring great benefits to the community. Back to top Further reading A survey of large language models Weixin Lang et al - News
In the news: April 2018 Digest
…is useless; (ii) many posted preprints may have been peer reviewed and rejected prior to posting on a preprint server—after perhaps responding to the original peer review process; the peer review process may have prevented flawed articles from being printed—or on preprint servers - News
Creating and implementing research data policies: COPE webinar report
…(Hrynaszkiewicz et al, 4 April 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/122929), an expert working group found commonalities among the publisher’s 2500 journals and consulted with editors, librarians, and funders. It defined a company-wide framework based on four data policy types: (1) Data sharing and data citation encouraged but not required;… - News
Editor to Editor support for Journal Management
…target="_blank">Oermann et al. 2018). Finally, INANE features an annual “Mentoring Editors Award” given to four new or aspiring nursing journal editors. First established in 2014, this award provides registration for our annual conference, and a mentoring relationship with an experienced Editor to assist in taking on the challenges of journal management. This program has far-reaching influence that… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: June 2018
…target="_blank">Whicher et al, 2015), who is correct and how is this resolved? This month’s Digest focuses on Ethical Oversight, one of the core principles of COPE. We define it as all activities involved in publishing, from consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, and ethical conduct of research with animals and humans to the ethical handling of data. COPE has a variety of resources… - News
In the news: December 2021
…this issue. The lead author, Helen Zhang, discusses the results in an interview with Scholarly Kitchen. Authorship and contributorship A light-hearted article entitled “ - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar 2018: Creating and implementing data research policies
…policies across all its journals since 2016. As reported in a preprint Standardising and harmonising research data policy in scholarly publishing (Hrynaszkiewicz et al, 4 April 2017), an expert working group found commonalities among the publisher’s 2500 journals and consulted with editors, librarians, and funders. It defined a company-wide… - Case
Author of rejected paper publicly names and criticises peer reviewer
…y critica de forma pública al revisor por pares … - Case
Suspect author
…approximately 12 years ago; it responded saying it saw no reason to investigate further. A letter, published in one of the specialty journals in 2000 by an independent researcher, asked the question “Why are author A et al’s data so nice?”, pointing out that the probability of such results occurring by chance were infinitesimally small, but as far as we know there have been no formal investigations of author… - News
In the news: December Digest
…international group of authors in Ophthalmology topics selected 200 references from PubMed and then checked them for Open Access status. Those that were paywalled were examined to see if they were available at established institutions in low income countries or through HINARI. There was a lot of heterogeneity from 0% full texts to 95%, with a mean of 47% availability. Use of complementary "alternative ways"… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…href="http://thinkchecksubmit.org/resources/peer-review/">What do we mean by 'peer review'? Think.Check.Submit Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM) Notes [1] The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor Sukbae Lee et al, arXiv (2023) - Forum discussion topics
Editorial conflicts of interest
…guidance. Back to top References International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. December 2021 Dal-Ré R, Caplan AL, Marusic… - Forum discussion topics
Author behavioural misconduct
…id="springer" name="springer">Marin-Spiotta E., et al. (2022). Harassment as Scientific Misconduct in: Faintuch, J., Faintuch, S. (eds) Integrity of Scientific Research. Springer Resnik D.B. (2019) Is it time to revise the definition of… - News
In the news: July 2021
…on Twitter and in interviews and a lawsuit. An international response supporting Bik and the importance of post-publication commentary and scholarly criticism has developed. On a related note, Dr. Frits Rosendaal wrote a 10 point critique of the same paper by Raoult et al, concluding, “This is a non-informative manuscript with gross methodological shortcomings.” He notes that he has not received…