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Guest article: Research misconduct
…becoming better at uncovering it? These are difficult questions to answer for many reasons. In particular, because of the underlying research culture which drives misconduct and difficulties inherent in defining what it is. Back to top Research integrity While most - Event
COPE Lightning Talk: AI
…recently as Senior Director, Research Integrity & Global Developments at the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The webinar is open to COPE members only Questions for the speakers The panel will welcome questions about AI in publishing, and the tools currently being used to improve efficiency and maintain quality in scholarly publishing. If you have… - News
New Members: July-October 2019
…href="https://publicationethics.org/core-practices">Core Practices. New members ACS Chemical Heath & Safety Advances in Operator Theory Annals of Functional Analysis - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Keynote address
…class="resource-download-inline__shadow__inner"> Speakers Dan Kulp, COPE Chair, and Director of editorial development for journals, American Chemical Society (ACS). He received his PhD in materials… - News
In the news: February Digest
…journals (Hybrid OA). If there is a significant public health benefit, articles must be published on a preprint server and Wellcome-funded organization must sign or publicly commit to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. - News
In the news: May & June 2022
…risking research integrity? Covid-19 Public health restrictions in the jurisdiction of where research is performed during the pandemic should be observed and editorial processes should affirm this. Peer review processes A historian of… - News
Intellectual property focus
…guide authors in when not to post work to a preprint platform. Publishers and editors could further assist authors by helping to update the SHERPA/RoMEO database, an online resource on publisher copyright and self-archiving policies. Authors' contributions to journals must in turn respect the intellectual property rights of… - News
In the news: November 2018 Digest
…clinical trials is often carried out by the funders of the research, and this involvement is not disclosed. Journal Management In early October, the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) was launched to discuss and address issues of diversity and inclusion within scholarly communication. A discussion of… - News
In the news: September 2018 Digest
…href="https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/how-we-judge-research-outputs-when-making-funding-decisions" target="_blank">https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/how-we-judge-research-outputs-when-making-funding-decisions - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: May 2018
…Starting the conversation: Outcomes from a research integrity workshop for research institutions, editors and publishers On April 25th members of the Russell Group Integrity Forum met with… - News
Research integrity and how to buy a Persian carpet: TOP Guidelines, part 2
…to get the most out of their research, and can be both applauded and rewarded by their research funders. Interestingly, this approach also opens-up new ways to communicate research that’s valuable and yet not well-suited to articles (like, for example, large observational datasets about our climate and how it’s… - News
In the news: December 2021
…research data collection. It includes recommendations that, during research design, consideration should be given to whether gender questions need to be included and, if they do, nonbinary genders should be explicitly included. In this - News
New COPE members Jan-March 2019
…ethics outlined in the Core Practices. Journals Accounting and Financial Control (Business Perspectives) ACS Materials Letters (American Chemical Society) - News
In the news: March 2021
…Hospital Research Institute checklist to be from predatory publishers. Less than half referenced some area of dentistry. Peer review In an analysis of two medical journals which use an open peer review process, - News
In the news: April 2021
…is to help build peer reviewer competency to benefit not only the reviewer but the quality of papers published. Authorship Dr. Helen Kara offers a useful guide to social science researchers on the pleasures and pain of co-authorship, and references COPE… - News
In the news: September 2021
…illustrated that Southern research outperforms research from the North. Research systems in the South should be able to define frameworks for assessing the value of research. COVID-19 The reported - Forum discussion topics
Claiming institutional affiliations
…that, to The Research Organization Registry. More guidance on affiliations would be welcome since it has become so important as an indicator of research output, quality, credit, and prestige. Further reading - News
In the news: July 2021
…="https://community.cochrane.org/news/new-policy-managing-potentially-problematic-studies-systematic-reviews" target="_blank">Cochrane has developed a new policy and implementation guide. As part of a group of initiatives by the Indian University Grants Commission to address global concerns raised about the quality of papers published by Indian researchers, all researchers are required to take a course on Research and Publication Ethics in 2020-2021. At the Central University of Haryana, the - News
In the news: June 2021
…misbehaviours. This article describes the work being carried out by the Centre for Journalology, which researches, teaches and performs outreach on metascience, the use of scientific techniques to study the research process itself. Intellectual Property A - News
A vision for a more trans-inclusive publishing world: guest article
…aerobic oxidation photocatalysis in tellurium-containing rhodamine derivatives. In addition to working with name change policies, he has pushed for additional trans inclusive policies and practices within the American Chemical Society (ACS), co-created an antiracism workshop series within the chemistry department at PSU, and serves on the PSU Women in STEM organizing committee. H Michael…