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COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
…Cooperation and Liaison between Universities and Editors (CLUE) guidelines Time on recording : 02:15-13:25 Dr Sabine Kleinert discussed the problems publishers have liaising with institutions when investigating potential misconduct, and the different perspectives of publishers and institutions. Sabine went on to share the Dealing with editor misconduct
…Because they happen to be in that journal does not undermine their validity, and it could be laziness on the author's part. There is a difference between that and demanding that publication is dependent on including at least 25% of references from that same journal. But many editors would not have the time to trawl through MedLine, looking for other valid…- News
In the news: October 2018 Digest
…was to begin. However, the report found no evidence to support serious allegations. Even so, on September 25, the remaining board voted unanimously to terminate his membership in the organization and his position at the Nordic Cochrane Center. In a statement on September 26, 2018 the board wrote: “Professor GØtzsche has repeatedly represented his personal views as those of Cochrane.” ...This… - News
In the news: December Digest
…target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03371-0 A survey of over 25,000 PhD holders across biology, physics, mathematics, engineers, linguistics, philosophy, and anthropology in Brazil assessed their views on plagiarism and found similar adherence to core principles. The authors feel that their findings can be generalised to most Latin-American nations. https… - News
Case discussion: gift authorship
…href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4548528/">Elizabeth Wager et al (Peer J, 2015) identified 24 prolific authors each publishing at least 25 articles per year. In contrast, the threshold of 72 papers per year (>1 every 5 days) was used as a baseline for “hyperprolific authorship” in a report by John Ioannidis et al in Nature in 2018. The report provided… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 2: COPE commentary
…feeling left behind and lacking in the knowledge to know how to think about it. When IOP polled the audience at a publishing event in June 2023 on their feelings about the implications of adopting AI in publishing, the average response was 5.25 out of 10 (1=terrified, 10= very excited). However,… Membership application FAQ
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Webinar 2022: Managing paper mills
…other documentation should be requested. Publisher roles in supporting editors to issue decisions based on trustworthiness of content, and ensuring there are systems in place to support editors in responding to legal threats. A publisher's perspective of identifying and investigating paper mill concerns Time on recording : 8:25-18:10