You are here

Guidance

Filter by topic

Filter by resource type

Search results for 'COPE Forum'

Showing 21–39 of 39 results
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 30 April 2018: Preprints: continuing the conversation

    Preprint platforms have been common in physics and mathematics but the preprint landscape is changing rapidly with new platforms emerging across various disciplines. This raises opportunities for discussion across communities and for all those involved: preprint platforms, journals, authors, funders and institutions. COPE has facilitated this discussion previously via an earlier forum
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 26 February 2018: Expressions of concern

    …How should journals use expressions of concern? They are “used to raise awareness to a possible problem in an article”. They are a relatively new, rare, and non-standardized type of editorial notice compared to corrections or retractions and “considerable differences in policy and practice remain between journals”. Journals are grappling with when expressions of concern are appropriate and wh…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 24 July 2017: Preprints: what are the issues?

    …href="http://asapbio.org">http://asapbio.org) will convene a meeting in July in which the establishment of standards will be among the issues discussed. To date there have been few public discussions around the ethics of making unverified research available in this way and there are a number of issues that arise. Not all ethical issues around preprints have a link with journal articles and COPE may wish to consider ‘mission creep’…
  • Forum discussion topics

    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…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 9 December 2015: COPE consultation/guidance document on handling competing interests

    Introduction Competing interests (also known as conflicts of interests (COIs)) are ubiquitous. One definition is as follows “A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial interest, or otherwise, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation of the individual or organization. The presence of…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 9 September 2015: Who “owns” peer review?

    Two trends have recently come together within scholarly publication; open review, and the desire to give credit to reviewers. At the convergence are organizations like Publons and Academic Karma who wish to openly acknowledge the work of peer-reviewers by recording, not only the amount, but also, in some circumstances, the content of individuals’ peer-review activity. Academics may view service…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 10 June 2015: Prior publication and theses

    …Question What is the best and most responsible general advice to provide to students and faculty on this question? Notes from forum discussion topic on prior publication and theses
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 10 March 2015: Coming back from disgrace

    The tragic suicide of Yoshiki Sasai, one of the authors of the retracted STAP stem-cell paper (discussed in the Letter from the Chair in the August 2014 edition of COPE Digest), highlights the fact that, above all, the communication of research is about people and about trust. Some researchers are seemingly able to bounce back from a finding of serious research misconduct. For example, Hwang…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 9 December 2014: Publication ethics issues in the social sciences

    Background The history of research ethics in general and publication ethics more specifically was initially and primarily grounded in the biomedical sciences. As concern over issues of animal care, human participant protection and research integrity developed throughout the latter part of the 20th century, some members of the Social Sciences and Humanities communities ra…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 23 September 2014: Standard retraction form

    Hervé Maisonneuve, Université de Lyon, France, suggested “a standard retraction form” as the topic for discussion at this Forum. Background Retractions are often used as a proxy for publication quality. Retractions have been studied with cohorts of various sizes over differing time periods. Time after time these studies have pointed out that there is often…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 8 July 2014: ethical review

    …editor disagrees. The HRA approached COPE and together it was agreed to put this discussion paper on the COPE website for discussion at the COPE Forum, to seek views and, if possible, establish a common approach which would not disadvantage “researchers” (and would expedite health care work).  Questions for discussion 1. What current guidance do journal editors use…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 4 March 2014: Issues related to papers submitted to “discussion” journals

    Authors in any subject area have always had a number of potential publications to choose from when they decide that they want to publish their research. As well as subscription journals to pick from, the increasing number of Open Access models has meant that the choices for authors are expanding all the time. A new type of publication that has arisen from the OA movement is the European Geoscie…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 4 December 2013: persistent complainers

    …How should a journal deal with persistent complainers? The topic for discussion at this Forum was ‘How should a journal deal with persistent complainers?’ Background Every so often a journal may get not one, but a series of complaints from the same source. These complaints may be directed at an author, an editor, or the journal in general. If these…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 4 September 2013: Sharing of information among editors-in-chief regarding possible misconduct

    …text, or other inconsistencies. Questions for discussion: Are publishers right to be cautious about sharing of such information? Would a disclaimer on a journal’s website prevent such claims? Would COPE’s endorsement or publication of a Code of Conduct that allows sharing of information under certain circumstances prevent such claims?…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 4 June 2013: Authorship, contributorship, who’s doing what, and what do we need?

    The topic for discussion at this Forum was ‘Authorship, contributorship, who’s doing what, and what do we need?’ Authorship issues are one of the most common issues that COPE members have to deal with.  Leaving aside the ethically problematic issues of ghost, guest and gift authorship, seemingly simpler authorship disputes of for example, who deserves authorship, or what author order should be…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 12 March 2013: Text recycling

    …consensus and consistency on the issue, editors at BioMed Central produced some guidelines. These guidelines were posted on the COPE website and members were invited to comment, and the topic was discussed at the COPE Forum on 12 March 2013 Read more comments on text recycling posted on our website before…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 4 December 2012: Citation manipulation

    The topic for discussion at this Forum was ‘Citation manipulation’. The issue of self citation has been discussed in a number of places before. The focus here is on a form of citation manipulation that qualifies as coercion, where an editor or others affiliated with a journal pressure an author to add citations from that journal for the implied purpose of increasing citation rates and, by…
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 11 September 2012: Publishing offensive material

    …_final.pdf">Summary of the discussion at the COPE Forum and of the comments on the COPE blog [PDF, 19KB] …
  • Forum discussion topics

    COPE Forum 18 June 2012: Electronic Responses to Blogs and Journal Articles

    The topic for discussion at this Forum was ‘Electronic Responses to Blogs and Journal Articles’. Specifically, what are the issues, in terms of publication ethics, surrounding blogs where journals are the target of concerted 'attacks' by the proponents of one particular viewpoint, and are there appropriate guidelines on managing such situations?…

Pages