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European Seminar 2017: Publication and research integrity, a Wellcome perspective
At the 2017 COPE European Seminar, Robert Kiley from the Wellcome Trust presented Wellcome's perspective on publication and research integrity. The event was filmed, which you can watch below, and the slides are also available. - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2017: The paper, the publishers,the protagonist and the academic setting
At the 2017 COPE European Seminar, Jane Jacobs, Director of the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity at the Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, presented her thoughts on responsible research practice in Australia, authorship and publication … - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2017: Translating institutional integrity issues into educational initiatives across Asia-Pacific
At the 2017 COPE European Seminar, Mai Har Sham, Associate Vice President (Research) of the University of Hong Kong presented on 'Translating institutional integrity issues into educational initiatives across Asia-Pacific'. Mai Har's talk covered: Research Integrity @ HKU Challenges with alleged research misconduct cases Promoting Responsible Conduct of Res… - CaseOn-going
Authorship dispute and possible unreported protocol amendment
Our journal accepted a randomised controlled trial for publication which has not yet been published online. In the submitted paper, the randomised controlled trial is described as commencing in 2004 with completion in 2011. We have received an email and telephone call from an individual not listed as an author or reviewer of the paper with the following alleged disputes:• He was an invest… - Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2016: An overview of publication ethics
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Seminar 2016: Publication ethics, a legal perspective
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Seminar 2016: Authors, understanding responsibilities and managing expectations - Zoë Mullan, Founding Editor, The Lancet Global Health
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Parental consent for participants
As editor of a psychology journal, I received a manuscript from a group of scholars. The authors describe a qualitative online study with adolescent girls, aged 15–18 years, who met in person with a stranger they first ‘met’ online. The girls describe their reasoning about the risks, the safety measures they used and reactions to discomfort they experienced in the meetings. The authors n… - CaseCase Closed
Low risk study with no ethics committee approval
A manuscript was submitted to our journal that describes a social media advocacy campaign that was run by an international NGO for the purpose of eliciting public support for a new law in a low-middle income country. The authors are from the NGO and the government department in that country, that together funded and ran the campaign, and also collected and analysed the data used in the manuscri… - CaseCase Closed
Data anonymity
A 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… - CaseCase Closed
Ethics committee approval
We routinely ask for ethics committee approval from every research manuscript submitted to our journal. Sometimes, studies from different countries may not have ethics committee approval and authors may claim that their study does not need approval. In such situations, we consult COPE’s “Guidance for Editors: Research, Audit and Service Evaluations” document and evaluate the study at the editor… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2013: Posters
…Poster: Experiences of unethical practices in a leading Pakistani biomedical journal [PDF 22KB] Poster: Fra… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2014: two travel grants to attend the COPE seminar
…COPE European Seminar 2014 report - Dr Parasuraman, Chief Editor of Journal of Young Pharmacist [PDF, 86KB] COPE European Seminar 2… - Research
Authors’ awareness of publication ethics: An international survey 2009
This is a collaborative project between Sara Schroter, Gary Bryan, Elizabeth Loder (BMJ); Jason Roberts (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), Tim Houle (Wake Forest University, North Carolina), and Don Penzien (University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS). Considerable time is expended by journals investigating ethical transgressions and misconduct that may be caused by i… - Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2014: How editors share information about misconduct
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Australian Seminar 2014: Student researchers and publication ethics
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Australian Seminar 2014 Ethics of data publication: same or different?
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European Seminar 2014: Guidance on research and publication ethics in Europe
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European Seminar 2014: Differences in publication ethics in Central and Eastern Europe
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European Seminar 2014: COPE case taxonomy
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