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Attempted redundant publication?
Seven authors sent us a paper on hospital infections in children. We sent the paper to two reviewers, one of whom sent back a detailed comparison between the paper submitted to us and a paper published in another journal in 1996. The reviewer’s comments were: “Unfortunately, there is strong evidence that the study and its results have been published previously, comments with some further… - Case
The fraudulent letter
A journal published a letter from a student only to discover that it was not written by him. The editor has written to him and his dean apologising, and the journal is publishing a piece saying that the letter was not written by the student. It seems most likely that the piece was written by one of his fellow students. Should we encourage the dean to hold a full investigation? … Letters t… - Flowcharts
Suspected ethical problem in a submitted manuscript
…class="resource-download-inline__container"> Flowchart Suspected ethical problem in a submitted manuscript PDF 97 KB … - Case
False memory syndrome
A doctor has submitted an account of how his daughter falsely accused him of having abused her as a child. His daughter is another British doctor. We would like to publish the account as part of a package of articles on false memory syndrome. The questions we are considering are: (1) Can it ever be right to publish something that describes the intimacies of a family conflict, to illustrate a s… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical practice in research data publication - challenges, lessons and opportunities
…src="/files/u7140/cope-seminar-iratxe-p-90x90-cir.png" style="float: left; height: 90px; margin: 3px 10px; width: 90px;" />Iratxe Puebla, Associate Director for ASAPbio moderated this seminar, prefacing the discussions on the increasingly widespread adoption of data publication with reference to the FAIR Guiding Principles of Data Management and Stewardship, which aim to ensure materials are… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Driving diversity, equity, and inclusion to shape the future of publication ethics
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/caroline-porter"> The seminar was moderated by Caroline Porter (COPE Trustee, Executive Publisher at SAGE Publishing), who opened the event with a summary of recent COPE activities in the area of… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: June 2022
…src="/files/council/dan-kulp-90x90.png" style="margin: 3px 9px; float: left; width: 90px; height: 90px;" />Dan Kulp, COPE Chair Read COPE Digest newsletter, June 2022, in which we launch the paper mills research report with STM and invite you to join the discussion on Dealing with complaints about the integrity of… COPE webinar: Current Issues in Peer Review
…CURRENT ISSUES IN PEER REVIEW Thursday 14 September 2017, 4-5pm BST (British Summer Time) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Register for peer…- Event
Neicon 7th International Scientific and Practical Conference
Behrooz Astaneh, COPE Council member, is speaking at this conference titled "2018: Editorial Policy, Open Access, Scientific Communications". - Case
Double plagiarism
A researcher has written to us to point out that a paper published in a German journal in 1993 was put together almost verbatim from articles published in the BMJ in 1989 and the New England Journal of Medicine in 1992. About three quarters of the material in the article in the German paper comes from these two journals. It may be that the data are original but it seems unlikely. What should we… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Authorship for sale
…small journals get involved? Ana Marušić is Professor of Anatomy and Chair of the Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health at the University of Split School of…