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When aspects of publication ethics are particularly fast-moving or controversial COPE cannot always provide detailed guidance. The COPE discussion documents aim to stimulate discussion rather than tell editors what to do. We hope that, by raising the issues, we can contribute to the debate within the scholarly publishing community and work towards agreement or definition of difficult problems.

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COPE Council. COPE Discussion Document: Dealing with concerns about the integrity of published research — English.
https://doi.org/10.24318/9cdeTy2t
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COPE Council. COPE Discussion Document: Best practices for guest edited collections — English.
https://doi.org/10.24318/7cKLAia0
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COPE Council. COPE Discussion document - Diversity and inclusivity
https://doi.org/10.24318/RLqSoVsZ
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COPE Council. COPE Discussion document: Artificial intelligence (AI) in decision making — English.
https://doi.org/10.24318/9kvAgrnJ
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https://publicationethics.org

 

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  • 12 April 2023

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Cite this as: COPE Council. COPE Discussion Document: Sharing of information among editors-in-chief regarding possible misconduct. February  2014. 

Version 1: February 2014

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Cite this as: COPE Council. COPE Discussion Document: Predatory Publishing. November 2019. https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.3.6

Version 1: November 2019

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Written by COPE Council
Version 1 July 2019
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COPE Council. COPE Discussion Document: Citation Manipulation. July 2019. https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.3.1

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Written by COPE Council
Version 1 March 2018
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COPE Council. COPE Discussion Document: Preprints. March 2018. https://doi.org/10.24318/R4WByao2

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Written by COPE Council
Version 1  January 2013
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COPE Council. COPE Discussion Document. Responding to anonymous whistleblowers, January 2013 

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Version 1 March 2017
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COPE Council. Best practice in theses publishing. March 2017. Version 1. 2017 https://doi.org/10.24318/LQU1h9US

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