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In the news: April 2020
…href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17414857/2020/33/1" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17414857/2020/33/1 Wellcome commissioned a review of research culture, including literature review, qualitative interviews and surveys. This report,"What Researchers Think About the Culture they work in" explores the findings. - News
Submit your poster for the Asia Pacific Seminar
…learning about. For more information and to submit your poster, see: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WR999XV. The deadline for abstract submissions is 1 September 2011. … - Event
INANE (International Academy of Nursing Editors): 2014 Annual Meeting
COPE Council members Charon Pierson and Geri Pearson will be holding a COPE Workshop at the meeting. Click here for more information.… - News
In the news: January Digest
…Predatory Publishing Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y Allegations of… - News
COPE is now on LinkedIn!
If you are a member of LinkedIn you can join the COPE group. Click here to stay up to date with ethical issues.… - News
Editor to Editor support for Journal Management
…Guest article Peggy L. Chinn, RN, PhD, FAAN and Leslie H. Nicoll, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN The International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE) has been supporting the work of nursing editors and the development of high quality nursing journals since 1982. INANE hosts an annual conference; the 37th meeting, in Boston, concluded… - News
Peer Review Week
…webinars, videos, interviews and social media activities designed to improve understanding of the principle of peer review and how it is practiced within the scholarly community. https://peerreviewweek.wordpress.com/?platform=hootsuite… - News
In the News: July Digest
…funding, a blacklist of ‘poor quality’ journals and a government agency that is responsible for policing misconduct.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05359-8This article in the Guardian argues that the level of competition in science, rather than driving innovation, is wasteful and damaging to… - Event
The 5th Annual GW Ethics & Publishing Conference
2012 CONFERENCE THEME:"PRESERVING, PROTECTING AND ENHANCING THE PUBLISHING ECOSYSTEM" This conference is designed for publishing professionals, but is open to the general public. More information can be found here.… - News
Upcoming CrossRef webinars
…the web. Learn more about this new exciting initiative from CrossRef. Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2013Time: 8:00 am (San Francisco), 11:00 am (New York), 4:00 pm (London)Moderator: Rachael Lammey - News
Editing Medical Journals: Short Course
…attract the best authors; how to manage your journal and, how to make your journal successful. Full course details can be found on the websiteor by emailing Pippa Smart [email protected]. … - 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 - News
In the news: September 2018 Digest
…Peer review processes Is there a problem around diversity and inclusion in peer review?#PeerReviewWeek18https://twitter.com/PeerRevWeek/status/1031911897149394944 Gender and international diversity improves equity in peer review - News
In the news: July Digest
…Allegations of misconduct Claims about unethical organ harvesting in China is leading to serious concerns within the transplant research community. Several journals and publishers are investigating affected published articles, after a scoping review published in BMJ Open provided reason to believe that almost 450… - News
In the news: November Digest
…Badges. https://www.webinarsains2019.com/ Think. Check. Submit. will be collaborating with the STEM Training in Ethics of Publication Practices (STEPP) programme, from Texas Tech University, which will research the challenges of dubious publishing practices and develop training materials to help researchers in making informed… - 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
In the news: May 2018 Digest
…-new-peer-review-problems-this-time-at-the-bmj/">https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/04/uncovering-new-peer-review-problems-this-time-at-the-bmj/ Data and reproducibility A bumper month for discussions of data and reproducibility. First of all, a useful article explaining how to determine whether sparse-data bias may have influenced the results of an article one is reading, and what to do if you suspect it is present. - News
In the news: March Digest
…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