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NEW! COPE Retraction Guidelines updated. Advice and guidance for editors:

• when should a retraction be considered
• what to include in a notice
• how quickly to issue a retraction
• who should issue a retraction
• what to do when there is inconclusive evidence of a retraction.

Read COPE's retraction guidelines

Trevor Lane, COPE Council Member, was invited to represent COPE at the 2019 Convention of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME) in Xi’an, China, on 4-5 September 2019.

On the first day, he delivered a keynote speech in a session on publication ethics and on the second day, he chaired a parallel session on journal evaluation.