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In the news: June 2018 Digest
…Ethical Oversight The Science and Technology Committee of the UK House of Commons met on May 8, 2018 to discuss research integrity. The transcript and a video of the meeting is available on The… - Forum discussion topics
Artificial intelligence (AI) and fake papers
…publication. Learned Publishing. 2023; 36: 73-80. Doi:10.1002/leap.1533 AI in decision making, COPE discussion document Trustworthy AI for the future of publishing, COPE Seminar… - 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: April 2020
…Diversity & Inclusion In a study of gender bias in 145 journals in various areas of research, including 1.7 million authors and 740,00 referees, these authors show that in biomedicine and health journals women authors were treated generally favourably by editors and reviewers. This is in contrast to social science and humanity journals. The authors advocate for… - Guidelines
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
…and available to all. 6. Licensing Licensing information should be clearly described on the website. Licensing terms should be indicated on the full text of all published articles (HTML and PDF). Content designated as Open Access must use an open licence. Licensing policies about the posting of author manuscripts and published articles in third… - News
Case Discussion: Data fabrication in a rejected manuscript
…="https://publicationethics.org/resources/research/data-sharing-policies-scholarly-publications-interdisciplinary-comparisons-2017" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">COPE-funded research on journal data-sharing policies across disciplines (presented at the 2017 Peer Review… - News
In the news: May 2020
…adhere to open science principles. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/coronavirus-article-free-access-doesnt-go-far-enough In early April, a snapshot of where COVID-19 related papers was being published showed that the main sources were preprint servers (17%), and traditional… - News
Case discussion: gift authorship
…ethical authorship policies, which propagates ignorance of publishing etiquette and journal guidelines. COPE Forum Case 15-17, Requesting authorship after publication, highlights the misbelief long-held by a research… - News
Case Discussion: Withdrawal of paper at proof stage
…pursued. The institution may be requested to investigate or review their training in scholarly publishing. The authors might confess that they plan to take their now-improved paper to a journal that has a (higher) journal impact factor. A previous case brought to COPE Forum (case 17… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 2: COPE commentary
…after the session this had risen to 6.17 implying that some of the apprehension is from worries about lack of knowledge, or feelings of isolation in being an early adopter. Knowledge, as those working in scholarly publishing know so well, is power. COPE made its own contribution to knowledge-building in a very popular session on Seminars
…_final%20%281%29.pdf">Download PDF of the seminar programme) "Weighed and Measured: How metrics shape publication (mis)behaviour The 2015 European Seminar and Workshop was held on Friday 17 April 2015 at the Representation of the State of Hessen to the European Union, Rue Montoyer 21, 1000 Brussels, Belgium Altmetrics in practice: where are they being used (and…- Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2021: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…Committee – 46 Reviewers – 26 Learned Society – 17 What action should be taken offensive or discriminatory content is discovered? The responses to this question are all in favour of directly linking a clear note or statement of concern to the paper. Retractions, expressions of concern and an Editor’s Note, are all typically directly linked to a paper, with notices… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…information sharing. The news spread globally in a matter of hours, very far from the experience of most preprints, and certainly from the 17 weeks (on average, and with considerable variation by discipline and journal impact factor) it can take for the traditional peer review process to be completed. This encouraged the authors in… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2022: Managing paper mills
…class="resource-download-inline__shadow"> Back to top Practical tips on managing paper mills Time on recording: 33:36-43:10 Jigisha Patel, COPE Council Member and independent research integrity specialist began with a reminder of who…