FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…rights and editorial pages. Question What is the best and most responsible general advice to provide to students and faculty on this question. References Ramirez ML, et al (2014). Do open access electronic theses and dissertations diminish publishing opportunities in the sciences? College and Research Libraries. 75…- News
Comments please: framework for editors when requesting patient consent for publication in small cohort studies
…style="margin-left:.75in;">1. In the case the study comprises a small data set of patients (<1 but fewer than n=20), either from a single cohort or a hospital institutional database, and at least two or more patient identifiers such as age and gender, age of disease onset along with disease characteristics are listed in a table. The first step is to check whether the paper has ethics approval for this research. Some… - News
Survey reveals need for guidance on places to publish
…all”. More than 75% would definitely recommend Think. Check. Submit. to a colleague. ● The decision on where to publish is complex and dubious publications can take advantage of that. The top reason given by respondents for selecting a journal to publish in was relevance to their field, followed by inclusion in indexes/impact factor; belief that the journal was trustworthy came third and was… - News
Welcome to new COPE Council members
…We're also pleased to announce the re-election of three current Council Members who stood for their second term on COPE Council: Nancy Chescheir Editor-in-Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, US Trevor Lane Publishing and education consultant, Hong… - Event
COPE North American Seminar and Forum 2011
…include: Breakout sessions in the afternoon with discussion of related cases. Opportunities to network with other editors and share your experiences and challenges. The Seminar is free for COPE members and $75 US for non-members. Register here. In addition, COPE would like to offer… - News
Data and reproducibility: The role of research institutions
…src="/files/u7140/data%20carpentry_logo.jpeg" style="width: 267px; height: 75px; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; float: right;" />It may be a part of: RCR training, graduate student and post-doc training, new faculty onboarding, and offered on an ongoing basis as part of continuing professional development (e.g., - News
In the news: April 2020
…href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0228914" target="_blank">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0228914 Predatory Publishing IGI Global has published a series of related articles and resources to help combat Predatory or Fake publications. This issue includes a description of the Texas Tech education program about open access and predatory publishing and also a paper about… - News
In the news: February 2021
…process and their attempts to reverse the damage done by this fraud. A review of over 75,000 funding proposals to the European Union "Marie Curie Actions" from 2007- 2018 concluded that organisational changes, such as the number of evaluation criteria used or the use of virtual rather than in-person consensus meetings do not significantly influence the - Case
New claim to authorship of published paper
…within the same university due to a breakdown of relations with his previous supervisor, and proceeded to complete his PhD in January 2013.The internal document is not in English, but it is apparent that close to 75% of the content of the journal paper has effectively been taken from the internal document. [This has been checked roughly through the use of online translation. The majority of… Seminars
…presentation [PDF 3.3 MB] CrossMark: there is no final version — Ed Pentz, CrossMark Watch presentation [13:30] Download presentation [PDF 7.5 MB] Legal issues in corrections and retractions — Joss Saunders, Blake Lapthorn Solicitors Watch…- News
In the news: August
…open access and found that from the 234 respondents, about 75% understood that open access as a concept is related to the ability of readers to access the content. They were somewhat discouraged that about 30% raise concerns about cost to publish, low quality, and poor reputation for OA journals. The authors raise questions about how those researchers, who may wish to publish in OA journals to make… - News
In the news: January Digest
…for Research into Higher Education conference which was based on interviews with 75 humanities and social sciences academics, senior administrators and journal editors in China, suggested that not all scholars are keen on the “cash for articles” incentive schemes within Chinese Universities. - News
In the news: June Digest
…target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01720-7 Among ~1000 Japanese surveyed researchers, 95% have shared their data. 75% were motivated to do so because the discoverability of their data is considered important; 50% wanted to progress their field of research and 42% for transparency. This infographic presents further details about how data are shared. - News
In the news: February Digest
…Misconduct A review of scholarly articles on the prevalence of ghost writing in scientific literature to be between 0.9% and 75%. Resources to address this such as the European Medical Writers Association ICMJE, and WAME are addressed.