Seminars and webinars

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Session on retractions at the European Seminar 2019 chaired by Heather Tierney, COPE Council, with presenter Thed Van Leeuwen, who shares the results of a study of all retracted papers published in journals processed for the Web of Science (WoS). Thed Van Leeuwen describes the reasons for retractions, motivation for retraction and who retracts. Catriona Fennell gives the publisher's perspective on retractions, and Howard Browman shares an update on COPE's revised retractions discussion document.

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To hear Thed Van Leeuwen's presentation, listen from 11:14.

Session on retractions at the European Seminar 2019, with speaker Howard Browman who shares 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:

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Catriona Fennell, Director of Publishing Services, Elsevier gives a publisher's perspective, and shares her own experience, at this session on retractions at the COPE European Seminar 2019. Thed Van Leeuwen speaks about the scientometrics of retractions, and Howard Browman shares the latest on COPE's revised retraction guidelines.

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To hear Catriona Fennell's presentation, listen from 24:08

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.

Text recycling research project session at the COPE European Seminar in Leiden 2019. The session was chaired by Mirjam Curno, COPE Council, with invited presenters from the Text Recycling Research Project (TRRP).

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While preprints have existed in some disciplines for decades, preprints and preprint platforms are becoming more and more common across the entire landscape of publishing. The total output from preprints remains low in comparison to published journal articles, however, preprints are growing rapidly across many disciplines.

Karin Wulf, Professor of History and well-known “Chef” in the Scholarly Kitchen introduced us to the terms “manels” and “whanels” (all male panels and all white panels) and provided some suggestions to help identify a more diverse group of experts from which to draw authors, reviewers, editorial board members, commentators, and consultants.