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COPE Digest: Predatory publishing | Research integrity, January 2020 (Volume 8, Issue 1)

In this issue

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Predatory publishing: new discussion document

This new guidance from COPE gives an overview of the issue with recommendations and resources. COPE welcomes feedback and comments to continue this live and ongoing debate.

  • What is predatory publishing?
  • What are the commonly occurring features in predatory publications?
  • How can we avoid and raise awareness of the problem of predatory publications?

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Letter from the COPE Chair: January 2020

Dear Digest Readers,

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.3.6

Much has been written about ‘predatory publishing’ over the past decade. In this discussion document, COPE will describe the basic phenomenon, identify the key issues, describe the impact on the various stakeholders involved, analyse proposed interventions and solutions, and present COPE’s perspective on addressing the problem going forward. This discussion will synonymously refer to predatory publishing and predatory journals/publications as fake scholarly publishing and fake scholarly journals/publications, respectively, and will elaborate on the issues with terminology.

About this resource

Written by COPE Council
Version 1 November 2019
How to cite this  COPE Council. COPE Discussion Document: Predatory Publishing. November 2019

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We set out to ask:

•Are AHSS editors aware of COPE and how can we best communicate our services to them?
•What issues are they dealing with that are problematic and what do they need in terms of support?
•What is COPE not currently providing?

Respondents were asked to report issues that were most widespread and frequent:

Session on retractions at the European Seminar 2019, chaired by Heather Tierney, COPE Council, presents the results of a study of all retracted papers published in journals processed for the Web of Science (WoS). Thed describes the reasons for retractions, motivation for retraction and who retracts. During the session we also heard from Howard Browman and Catriona Fennell. Links to their presentations are below:

Session on retractions at the European Seminar 2019, chaired by Heather Tierney, COPE Council, with a review of the updated Retraction Guidelines from COPE. During the session we also heard from Thed Van Leeuwen and Catriona Fennell. Links to their presentations are below:

Session on retractions at the European Seminar 2019, chaired by Heather Tierney, COPE Council, with a publisher's perspectives from Catriona Fennell, Director of Publishing Services, Elsevier. During the session we also heard from Howard Browman and Thed Van Leeuwen. Links to their presentations are below:

Michael Dougherty, Professor of Philosophy, Ohio Dominican University speaks about authorship violations in philosophy including:

  • using pseudonyms in philosophy and how to avoid post-publication pseudonym surprises.
  • why we should be concerned about plagiarism, types of plagiarism in philosophy and what are the options for whistleblowers?
  • What editors and publishers can do to dis-incentivise academic plagiarism.

 

Perspectives on predatory publishing and thoughts about solutions with Deborah Poff, COPE Chair.

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