Ethical oversight
Ethical oversight should include, but is not limited to, policies on consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, ethical conduct of research using animals, ethical conduct of research using human subjects, handling confidential data and of business/marketing practices
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Discussion documents
- Best practice in theses publishing. March 2017
- COPE Forum 9 December 2014: Publication ethics issues in the social sciences
- COPE Forum 8 July 2014: Fair play for “researchers”: Can editors and regulators develop a common approach to the need (or lack of need) for ethical review?
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Seminars and webinars
- Publication ethics: The last 20 years - Elizabeth Wager, Publications Consultant and Trainer, Sideview
- COPE: Today and tomorrow - Chris Graf, COPE co-Vice-Chair and Geraldine Pearson, COPE co-Vice-chair
- Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: what do they need from COPE? Deborah Kahn, Publishing Director, Medicine and Open Access at Taylor & Francis
Our core practices
- 1. Allegations of misconduct
- 2. Authorship and contributorship
- 3. Complaints and appeals
- 4. Conflicts of interest / Competing interests
- 5. Data and reproducibility
- 6. Ethical oversight
- 7. Intellectual property
- 8. Journal management
- 9. Peer review processes
- 10. Post-publication discussions and corrections