- Event
Scholarly publishing in a connected world: Turning disruptions into opportunities
…publishing industry more widely. There will be tips on how to spot and deal with suspected paper mill submissions and guidance on how to manage large scale paper mills. Read more and register… - News
COPE Digest: Publication Ethics in Practice. October 2014 (Vol. 2, Issue 10)
The latest issue of COPE Digest: Publication Ethics in Practice is now available on the COPE website. Click here to read.… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2013: Good practices from 10 years of addressing student plagiarism
…Download presentation: Good practices from 10 years of addressing student plagiarism [PDF,1300KB]… - Event
ACSE webinar: Principles of Transparency update
Sunday 5 February, 9.30am to 10.30am Dubai Time Zone (UTC +4) Find out what's new in the 4th version of the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Speakers at the Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE) webinar are COPE Council Members Jiayi Xu and Trevor Lane. Register today … - News
In the news: March Digest
….1371/journal.pone.0198117" target="_blank">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198117 Meanwhile, COPE Council member Vivienne Bachelet and colleagues have published a protocol of a research study to investigate the prevalence or otherwise of the misrepresentation of affiliations by authors. The results will be submitted to the WCRI and will be published in a peer reviewed journal - News
In the news: December Digest
…statistical subsection the opening paragraph of the Methods section, including a separate paragraph discussing the limitations of the statistical analysis and allocating resources to studies on reproducibility and null results. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201900189 Editors in the BMJ urge… - Event
Next COPE Forum 6 September 2011
…Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), 5-11 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8SH (http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/how-find-us/how-find-us). All COPE members are welcome to attend the meeting, whether or not they are presenting a case. Download the agenda and materials - News
Expressions of Concern: Forum discussion topic
…and what happens if the concerns are later found not to be valid. This will be discussed at the start of the next COPE Forum on Monday 26 February. Please leave any comments on our discussion document, whether or not you are planning… - News
Editing Medical Journals: Short Course
Date: 10-12 November 2010 Location: Oxford, UK Website: http://www.pspconsulting.org Now in its 13th year, this short course for Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Board members and managing editors helps build skills and awareness of what it means to be a journal editor and how to make your journal successful. The course covers: how to… - News
Welcome new COPE Council members
The results of our recent Council elections have been confirmed and we are pleased to welcome two new members to Council: Howard Browman and Frits Rosendaal. Frits Rosendaal is Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis and chairman of the - Event
COPE Forum: Monday 11 November 2019, 4pm (GMT)
…October 2019. --> Members can register to attend the Forum by: 8 November 2019 Forum agenda and materials 1. Update… - News
December 2017 news
…Humans Run Experiments, a Robot Writes the Paper The future of automated scientific writing is upon us--and that's a good thing.Robot writes paper Fostering Integrity in Research A consensus study report of The… - News
In the news: February 2022
…Research Network promotes best practice in research and improving research integrity as well as trying to support institutional researchers, rather than focusing on those who commit research misconduct. FORCE11 hosted a virtual… - News
In the news: July Digest
…translation of articles and republished in another language under a different author name https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/theo.12188 Authorship and contributorship Single author papers are declining globally and across all disciplines… - News
Self-Citation: Where's the Line? - Forum discussion 13 November 2017
…comments Register for the Forum by Friday 10 November… - News
In the news: November 2018 Digest
…Post publication discussion and corrections On October 25th, Retraction Watch released a database of 18,000 articles and conference papers which had been retracted since the 1970s. - News
COPE authorship workshop February 2021
…Online cases workshop for COPE members only Wednesday 10 February 2021 15:00-16:30pm (GMT); 10.00-11.30am (EST) Wednesday 24 February 2021 09:00-10:30am (GMT); 17.00-18.30pm (AWST); 20.00-21.30pm (AEDT) Following on from the success of our virtual workshops last year, COPE is delighted to announce an online workshop on… - Event
COPE Forum: Monday 5 November 2018
Register for the next online COPE Forum, Monday 5 November 2018, 4pm-5.30pm (GMT). All members are welcome to join this Forum which will be held by webinar. It follows the usual format where members' cases are presented for discussion and advice from all those participating in the Forum. The… - News
Mediterranean Editors and Translators Meeting 2018
COPE council member Iria del Río shares her experience of the #METM18 conference where she was a keynote speaker, workshop presenter and attendee on the blog - News
In the news: September 2020
…href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133320301270" target="_blank">four watchlists and ten safelists reviewing how they address the issue of predatory publishing. While authors in another article analyse the usefulness of the Cabell’s watchlist and suggest improvements to make it a more effective tool. But, is the underlying issue the