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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,… - Discussion documents
COPE Forum 5 November 2018: Predatory Publishing
…There is confusion between some legitimate open-access peer review journals and predatory open-access journals, and sometimes include legitimate scholars on their editorial masthead. The Forum discussed further issues and possible solutions. This discussion and posts on our website are summarised in the document attached here.… - Discussion documents
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] … - Discussion documents
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… - Discussion documents
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… - Discussion documents
COPE Forum 11 February 2019: Diversity and inclusion in research publishing
…feel engaged and their contributions and perspectives are valued. Efforts to actively promote both diversity and inclusion need to be ongoing, given that demographics and team composition continuously change with time. The Forum discussed how COPE can help members to encourage diversity and inclusion and how it can be improved for different communities involved in research publishing. This… - Discussion documents
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… - Discussion documents
COPE Forum 4 September 2020: paper mills
…Back to top Guest speaker This topic was discussed at the start of the COPE Forum on Friday 4 September 2020, with guest speaker Elisabeth Bik (Microbiome and Science Integrity Consultant). Elizabeth Bik, is a Dutch microbiologist living in California who has worked for 15 years at Stanford University and two years in industry before becoming a science… - Discussion documents
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?… - Discussion documents
COPE Forum 23 March 2021: Book publishing
…discussion. This topic was discussed at the start of the COPE Forum on Tuesday 23 March 2021, with guest speakers Tamara Welschot and Jennifer Wright. Back to top Comments from the Forum, March 2021 Note, comments do not imply formal COPE advice or consensus Regarding disclosures and ethical statements in books, especially eBooks, where… - Discussion documents
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… - Discussion documents
COPE Forum 15 December 2020: Predatory publishing
…retraction service for authors who have unknowingly published with a predatory publisher which will neither withdraw nor retract the articles at the request of the authors? This would include publishers who commit to publications which never appear. This was discussed at the start of the COPE Forum on Tuesday 15 December 2020. Back to top Digital journal… - Discussion documents
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… - Discussion documents
COPE Forum 10 June 2015: Prior publication and theses
Research higher degree theses have traditionally been seen as part of the scholarly communications chain, and have been made available by university libraries in print and, latterly, online via institutional repositories. The issue we seek to address is whether or not work already publicly available in a thesis (whether in print or online, although the concern is primarily around online)… - Discussion documents
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… - Discussion documents
COPE Forum 6 March 2020: Editing of reviewer comments
…Editing of reviewer comments The topic for discussion at our March 2020 COPE Forum asked questions around the editing of reviewer comments. Peer reviewers are asked to contribute intellectual work to assess and improve scholarly publications. As with all work, the quality and characteristics of peer reviews vary. Editors responsibilities include support not only to the peer… - 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… - Discussion documents
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… - Discussion documents
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… - Discussion documents
COPE Forum 11 November 2019: Artificial intelligence (AI) in decision making
…be used. COPE members discussed these ethical issues in the COPE Forum. Read the discussion in the pdf and send us your
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