- Guidelines
Ethics toolkit for a successful editorial office
…of what, and how, conflicts of interest must be disclosed by authors, reviewers, editors, journals and publishers. Requirements for data availability, use of reporting guidelines, and registration of clinical trials and other study designs should be clear in journal guidelines. Journals must publish clear guidelines on the ethical conduct of research, according to the research… - Research
Paper mills research
…693 KB Key points Paper mills are the process by which manufactured manuscripts are submitted to a journal for a fee on behalf of researchers with the purpose of providing an easy publication for them, or to offer authorship… - Case
Duplicate publication and alleged image manipulation
…in a non-accusatory way, with his reasons for retraction, and mention that the institution has failed to respond. As one of the authors is from a different institution, another suggestion was to contact that institution and request an investigation on the basis that all authors should take responsibility for published work.… - Case
Stolen article
At acceptance but before publication, we found article A submitted to journal A was highly similar to article B, published 5 months earlier in conference proceedings in journal B by another publisher. The abstracts were nearly identical, but the author lists and affiliations did not overlap. We asked the authors to explain this and they said article A is their own work, but it was inadvertently… - Case
Temporary exception to double anonymised review policy
…discovered, decision letters for multiple manuscripts had been shared with reviewers. Four were sent to the same reviewers to review the resubmitted article. No reviewers contacted the editors to let them know if they were aware of the authors’ identities. Decisions were made based on submitted reviews for two of these (one reject, one minor revision) and two await reviews. Several manuscripts could… - Case
Submissions from members of the editorial board
…influence the handling of their submissions. The authors claimed that “in view of the delay in the handling” they believed that they were “entitled to a positive response about acceptance”. The authors asked if there was anyone on the editorial board who, during the afternoon, could read the manuscript and make a preliminary decision as to whether one specific paper was likely to be accepted, even if… Membership subscription fees
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… Member benefits Further details on the benefits of COPE membership and criteria for membership. Individual journal membership Number of issues Fees per…- Case
Duplicate publication
…topic areas and both are agreed that they will, in principle, follow the American lead and will deny publication to those proven to have been engaged in duplicate publication or plagiarism. Both have also agreed to write a joint editorial on this issue once the outcome of this case is known. However I would be grateful if advice could be given to us concerning the appropriateness of such action… - Case
Duplicate publication?
…a peer review in respected journals. They stated that they originally submitted real numbers, but the reviewers asked for simplification of the tables (ie, taking out the actual values of the measured variables). The editors wrote to the journals again (twice), asking them to clarify this, but still did not get any answer. The editors would like COPE’s advice on how to proceed?… - Case
Dispute between two authors
…needs to be scientific and not libellous. The editor can also edit the letter if necessary; it is acceptable to remove inflammatory or derogatory comments. If author A is prepared to follow this course, then an exchange of letters in the journal on scientific differences would be appropriate. For controversial articles in particular, the journal may wish to consider sharing letters with the… - News
Guest article: Self-plagiarism in philosophy
…affected journals. Third, self-plagiarism impedes researchers who are trying to get a handle on the published research in a particular area. When I was a graduate student some years ago, conducting research involved hours of tracking down articles in the library stacks and laboriously photocopying the articles. Back then I would find it incredibly frustrating to come home after a day in the… - Case
License for using a published scale
A researcher has published a paper in our journal using a scale published in 2008. She wrote to the scale developer in 2014/2015 at least three times (emails are on file) before the start of the project, but the scale developer did not respond despite repeated email reminders. No indication of the need for a license was received. In 2017, when the researcher published the paper using the above… - Translated resources
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (Portuguese)
…Publicações Acadêmicas, Version 3.0, 2018 Introdução O Committee on Publication Ethics (Comitê de Ética em Publicações-COPE), o Directory of Open Access Journals (Diretório de Revistas de Acesso Aberto-DOAJ), a Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (Associação de Editores Acadêmicos de Acesso… - News
Diversity in Peer Review: Survey Results
…comments from several respondents: …diversity depends on the nature of the journal …diversity may not be as important as a reviewer’s ability, integrity, and willingness …relevant data are not or are not yet collected …in general, the reviewer pool needs expanding to avoid overburdening the same individuals The survey results show that diversity… - Case
Paper published without permission or acknowledgement from institution
…experimental proposals [xxx], based on the above theoretical framework, to build the first ever [xxx], which he initiated and led as the Principal Investigator, using the [xxx] Facility at the [xxx], in discussion with the [xxx] teams (funded by [xxx]) at [xxx]. The author further acknowledges the strong merits of this collaborative effort which warrants its continuation as already initiated by the… - Translated resources
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (Spanish)
…Principios de Transparencia y Mejores Prácticas en Publicaciones Académicas Introducción El Committee on Publication Ethics (Comité de Ética para Publicaciones (COPE)), el Directory of Open Access Journals (Directorio de Revistas de Acceso Abierto (DOAJ)), la Open Access Scholarly Publishers… - Flowcharts
All Flowcharts
…COPE Flowcharts COPE flowcharts offer a step by step process, for practical use on handling different aspects of publication ethics issues. Allegations of misconduct Reviewer suspected to have appropriated an author’s ideas or data… - News
In the news: May 2018 Digest
…-press-join-blockchain-for-peer-review-project-blockchainforpeerreview/with more details on the project in this slidesethttps://www.stm-assoc.org/2018_04_26_US_Annual_Conference_Day2_Innovations_van_Rossum_Blockchain.pdf Ethical oversight New research from… - News
New Members: July-October 2019
…-techniques-cardiothoracic-and-vascular-surgery">Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery International Forum on Allergy & Rhinology International Journal…