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Sanctions for citation cartels?
…citations and that the scholarly content within them is minimal (to date, no indications of plagiarism have been found). The peer review for these issues was done ‘off-system’ and despite the publisher requesting copies of all peer review reports, they have yet to receive them (peer review ‘off-system’ is no longer allowed—these issues were published some years ago). To date, expressions of… - Forum discussion topics
Artificial intelligence (AI) and fake papers
…are the implications of AI-generated texts for plagiarism of words, images, and ideas (with algorithms trained on existing articles)? 5) Could peer review be performed exclusively by dedicated AI tools (designed to detect fraud and validate data and figures)? 6) What kind of bias could an AI introduce if it were to write or peer review articles? 7) What are some… - CaseOn-going
A case of salami slicing
…methods of the journal to filter out possible cases of plagiarism and salami slicing. The editor discussed the case (without revealing any of the author's details) with editors of related journals who said that they also experienced similar cases and expressed the need for efforts to create awareness to avoid publication misconduct. The editor acknowledges the guidance from the COPE website in… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 4 September 2013: Sharing of information among editors-in-chief regarding possible misconduct
…plagiarism, or duplicate publication affecting multiple papers; — This should not occur at the time of the first enquiry/letter to the author, but only if the response is inadequate or there is no response at all within a reasonable time (e.g. a month); — The format of the summary should be purely factual, e.g. ‘I have just sent a letter to Dr X asking about the publication of six papers… - CaseOn-going
Same cohort - same blood samples - multiple tests
This is a hypothetical situation based on a real-life experience. A set of authors recruited the same patient cohort, collected data with two questionnaires, took one blood sample, but tests were done by two research students for two pathogens, and the results were presented separately in two theses. Subsequently, they sent different papers to two journals. No plagiarism has been… - Guidelines
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
…href="https://publicationethics.org/postpublication">corrections and retractions. Editors and publishers are responsible for ensuring the integrity of the scholarly literature in their journals and should ensure they outline their policies and procedures for handling such issues when they arise. These issues include plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. Neither the journal’s policies nor the… - CaseCase Closed
Unusually frequent submission of articles by a single author
A sixth year medical student, with expected year of graduation of 2013 (Mr X), submitted 29 original articles and 17 letters to the editor in the period February 2012 to October 2012 to our journal. This amounted to an average of five submissions per month. Mr X is an author and corresponding author in every article. Of these, he is the first author of eight original research articles and 12 le… - Forum discussion topics
What does peer review mean in the arts, humanities and social sciences?
…plagiarism and poor attribution standards Issues handling responses from reviewers to authors Issues of self-plagiarism Difficulties in upholding anonymity to authors and/or reviewers during peer review Recognising and dealing with bias in reviewer comments Assuring fair representation of new voices and diverse perspectives Potential conflict of… - Seminars and webinars
Handling a case of misconduct
…class="resource-download-inline__shadow"> Investigating research misconduct Karin Nylén (Director, Swedish National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct), describes the aims and processes used at her organisation which was set up in 2020 to investigate cases of alleged fabrication, falsification and plagiarism. The Board has… - CaseCase Closed
Request to remove author from submitted manuscript due to academic misconduct
…initial steps of the current COPE flowchart for removing an author before publication. This flowchart only refers back to more strict instances of scientific fraud or misconduct such as plagiarism or ghost/gift writing, so that it is not clear whether it would be even fair to initiate… - CaseCase Closed
Two cases of double submission
Journal A is dealing with two separate cases of double submission: Case 1: Manuscript X was submitted to the journal. Two rounds of revision were suggested by the editor in charge, following comments by the referee, and an amended version was submitted. Following routine plagiarism detection checking, the editorial team found that a substantial part of the manuscript was similar to… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Introduction to publication ethics
…different regions of the country. The authors claimed they received permission from local authorities, including local elder community leaders, which they considered satisfactory permission. Case 2: translated paper plagiarises published article Case 2 on the topic of plagiarism is hosted by Simon, and addresses a paper submitted to a journal that is a translation of an already published… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2022: Managing paper mills
…given an opportunity to explain. We don’t need to share how the evidence was found - eg what screening methods or tools were used. When we use a plagiarism software is there a rate of duplication which indicates plagiarism? There should always be a human assessment of plagiarism. There is no cut off percentage that can be considered acceptable or unacceptable. Editors in… - CaseOn-going
Conflicts of interest between authors and editors
…the managing editor and academic editor make initial checks on all submissions. The managing editor conducts a check for plagiarism and reviews the manuscript for suitability according to journal scope and appropriate format. If they pass this initial check manuscripts are assigned to an academic editor after disclosing any conflicts of interest (CoI) (there is a checklist for this as part of the… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Trustworthy AI for the future of publishing
…for the human mind, to enhance efficiency and accuracy in processing, and to remove or minimise the potential of personal biases. Marie gave examples of editorial checks which incorporate AI, such as plagiarism/text similarity checking, data falsification, image manipulation, language and image quality, citation relevance, adherence to journal scope, subject area relevance and impact, and… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2022: Relationship between universities and publishers
…publishing ethics, such as authorship disputes, data sharing issues, plagiarism, image manipulation among many others. Sabina also provides example of the practical obstacles and issues journals contend with in trying to resolve ethics cases, where responsibilities lie ion making decisions, thresholds of evidence requirements, mutual support for decisions and actions, and the ambiguity of… - Forum discussion topics
Editing of reviewer comments
…encouraged the submission of the work and is eager to publish it, but one review is very negative. The review is replete with typographic errors. The review is a single line "This paper should be revised" or "This paper should be rejected". The reviewer accuses the authors of plagiarism or other misconduct within the body of the review. The reviewer's comments are… - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
…and 'misconduct' in cases of fraudulent behaviours, falsification, manipulation and plagiarism; 'validity' and 'reliability' of research for cases where there are concerns that don't allow validation of conclusions, data or that might warrant corrections, retractions which would typically apply to cases of honest errors, issues of replication or misleading text that needs to be edited. To… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2020: Understanding text recycling
…published material. Our work is on text recycling not plagiarism. As far as your question about than need to place short recycled phrases in quotation marks: this is matter is inadequately articulated (and perhaps not even considered) in those publisher’s policies that state that all recycled material should be placed in quotation marks. Our sense is that most editors in STEM fields would, in… - Forum discussion topics
Ethical aspects of conference proceedings
…Can a definition be agreed on that accurately and comprehensively encompasses them? Are proceedings subject to publication ethics to the same extent/equivalently as journals and books? Are most of the publication ethics issues the same in conference proceedings as in book or journal publishing (eg, plagiarism, authorship, ethics approval, consent, peer review standards, expressions…