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Promoting integrity in research and its publication
COPE provides leadership in thinking on publication ethics, practical resources to educate and support members, and offers a professional voice in current debates.
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Our core practices
View all core practicesCore practices are the policies and practices journals and publishers need, to reach the highest standards in publication ethics. We include cases with advice, guidance for day-to-day practice, education modules and events on topical issues, to support journals and publishers fulfil their policies.
- 1. Allegations of misconduct
- 2. Authorship and contributorship
- 3. Complaints and appeals
- 4. Conflicts of interest / Competing interests
- 5. Data and reproducibility
- 6. Ethical oversight
- 7. Intellectual property
- 8. Journal management
- 9. Peer review processes
- 10. Post-publication discussions and corrections
Cases
All the cases COPE has discussed since its inception in 1997 have been entered into a searchable database. This database now contains over 500 cases together with the advice given by COPE
eLearning
COPE's eLearning course on publication ethics. Individual modules designed to give editors a deeper understanding about publication ethics and practical guidance about how to detect, prevent and handle misconduct.