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2009

Case

Concern about reporting of a trial and also its DSMB

09-10

We received a paper reporting a trial. There has only been one previous trial of this intervention in this condition that we know of (which was also done by these investigators). There were substantial issues with the reporting of that trial but the end result, as reported by them, favoured the intervention.

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Has formal ethical approval been granted that satisfies publication criteria?

09-08

The issue here is whether formal ethics approval has been granted in order to satisfy publication criteria. By way of some background information, a lot of screening data are collected on many athletes in many sports, both nationally and internationally. Historically, clubs and associations have disclaimers whereby athletes sign consent for their data to be used for audit purposes on the proviso they will not be identified individually.

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Duplicate publication or salami publication?

09-07

An author submitted an article to my journal. The editorial board discovered that the author had already published his article in another journal. The editorial board communicated with the author and he defended himself stating that they were two different articles with different titles. However, the editorial board could find no significant difference between the two papers.

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Suspected contact between reviewer and an author led to coauthorship of the reviewer

09-05

A manuscript was submitted via our electronic submission system and processed in accordance with the standard procedures of the journal. This was originally a single author submission, and in the covering letter the author suggested two potential reviewers.

The Associate Editor assigned reviewers, choosing reviewer A along the suggestions of the author, and reviewer B from his own list of reviewers.

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Possible serial misconduct in relation to coauthors and other activities

09-04

I am the editor of an international clinical journal and am facing a very unusual problem that does not fit readily into COPE flowcharts.

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An authorship dispute and a question about when a paper is considered published

09-02

 Authors A and B submitted a paper PV1 to an international conference which was accepted by the editor E of the conference proceedings. The copyright of the paper was assigned to the publishers PC of the conference proceedings. The editor E of the conference proceedings is also the editor of an international journal J published by PJ. The editor E invited author A to consider submitting a revised and extended paper for possible publication in journal J

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Paper published that is a verbatim copy of another published one by another author

09-01

This is a report of two cases of possible misconduct by the same author(s): one that was identified during the review process and one only after it was published.

 

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Multiple publication of research

09-03

We submit to COPE a case regarding the suspected multiple publication of research on four separate occasions in four different journals.

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Duplicate publication

09-06

We are fortunate to have very knowledgeable reviewers who are immersed in their specialty and in the literature. A reviewer informed us that s(he) was working on a review of a manuscript and thought that there had to be more qualitative studies on this subject. S(he) began to look and found three articles not cited by the author and then a fourth.

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