- Flowcharts
Suspected fabricated data in a submitted manuscript
COPE's guidance, as a flowchart, on what to do if you suspect fabricated data in a submitted manuscript… - Flowcharts
English: all flowcharts
For ease of use, we have gathered together here all of COPE's flowcharts into one downloadable PDF file (18 pages): What to do if you suspect redundant (duplicate) publication (2 flowcharts) What to do if you suspect plagiarism (2 flowcharts) What to do if you suspect fabricated data (2 flowcharts) Changes in authorship (4 flowcharts) What to do i… - Flowcharts
Suspected fabricated data in a published manuscript
COPE's guidance on what to do if you suspect fabricated data in a published manuscript.… - CaseCase Closed
Data fabrication in a rejected manuscript
2018An author submitted two manuscripts to our journal and the data were clearly fabricated, which was confirmed when we examined the original patient data files. The lead author admitted that they had only recruited a few patients and fabricated all of the remaining data and said that the co-authors had done this without their knowledge. We reported this to the institution, who conducted an… - Seminars and webinars
Levers for transparency: from funding through research to publication
- Seminars and webinars
2018: Creating and implementing data research policies, COPE webinar
- Research
Data sharing policies in scholarly publications: interdisciplinary comparisons
[PDF, 556Kb - click image to download] The research paper will be published here, and a discussion document will be made available to open this to further discussion. … - CaseCase Closed
Potential figure manipulation with corresponding author uncontactable
2017A reader contacted the journal to raise concerns about a paper containing a potentially manipulated figure. The editor-in-chief agreed with the assessment that the figure had been manipulated and attempted to contact the corresponding author, without response. Following further contact with the co-authors and institution, it was established that the corresponding author had retired after public… - Seminars and webinars
Research data, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing at Springer Nature
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Data manipulation and institute’s internal review
2017A journal received an enquiry from a reader stating that they had found some discrepancies in the spectra published in the electronic supporting information for a published paper. They suggested that the discrepancies would be consistent with the spectra being manually ‘cleaned’. If this were true, the characterisation and purity of the compounds reported in the paper would be called into quest… - CaseCase Closed
Author accused of stealing research and publishing under their name
2016We received a letter from a third party, accusing author A of putting his/her name against an article, published in our journal, when the research itself belongs to author A's student. Our journal is a fully English language publication and the accusing third party and author A are from a non-English speaking country, as is the student (assumedly). The accusing third party forwarded the… - CaseCase Closed
Data anonymity
2016A paper was submitted to our journal. The managing editor was concerned about patient information in the paper and queried the authors. The authors responded that the data were collected from routine samples and so consent was never obtained. The patients were lost to follow-up, and there was no ethics committee approval as it involved the study of existing data, but they did discuss with the i… - Discussion documents
COPE Forum 12 February 2016: Data sharing
Data sharing is increasingly viewed as an essential step in improving research transparency and reproducibility (Taichman et al, 2016; Vickers, 2006). There has been a lot of discussion on the imperative for data sharing in the biomedical arena, particularly of publically funded research. As a result, there are many disciplines where proposals for data sharing are being discussed. Publis… - CaseCase Closed
Suspected image manipulation involving four journals
2015Editorial office staff at journal A noticed possible image manipulation in two figures of a new paper submitted by author X. These suspected manipulations involved images of gels which appeared to contain multiple duplicated bands. This prompted editorial staff to look at the submission history of author X to journal A in more detail. It was found that author X had previously submitted t… - CaseCase Closed
Handling self-admissions of fraud
2015In November 2014, the first author of a decade old paper in our journal and a 15-year-old paper from another journal informed us that he faked the data in two figure panels in the paper in our journal and one figure panel in the paper in the other journal. The main gist of the manipulation was loading unequal amounts or delayed loading of gel lanes. Self-admission of data falsification i… - Research
Environmental scan of repositories of clinical research data: how far have we got with public disclosure of trial data?
There is growing interest in sharing of research data, as data sharing is expected to accelerate research and increase accountability. Sharing of data underlying published research is an increasingly important consideration for peer-reviewed journals, and some journals require researchers to state their data sharing policy in published articles. However, the field of clinical trials has been sl… - Seminars and webinars
Ethics of data publication: same or different? - Sarah Olesen, Australian National Data Service
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Arabic: all flowcharts
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Chinese: all flowcharts
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Croatian: all flowcharts
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