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Case Discussion: Ethics of non-active management of a control group
…sexual assault survivors. In this case, the researchers had received approval of the local ethics research approval committee and the authors had stated that their research adhered to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki – Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects. (WMA Declaration 2013. - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: August 2018
…href="https://publicationethics.org/resources/seminars-and-webinars">European Seminar in 2015. Looking forwards, COPE Council are currently developing a Discussion Document on citation manipulation. Deborah Poff, COPE Vice-chair and Chair-elect, was also involved in a panel discussing citation manipulation at the Council of Science Editors in New Orleans in May 2018: “ - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: May 2021
…href="https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/CSEVAM/">CSE Annual Meeting in May: three members of COPE's author name change working group joined a panel titled 'Inclusive Author Name Change Policies.' Topics discussed included why antiquated name change policy is harmful, how one publisher's policy developed, and what COPE's forthcoming guidance will address. The session concluded with a lively Q&A. Council Member Trevor Lane was part of the - News
In the news: January 2021
…concerns about negative repercussions about the results. Image manipulation A lab generated fake western blot images using Generative Adversarial Nets (GANS), an artificial intelligence method, and then performed a case study of how accurately researchers could detect the fake images, which was… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: December 2018
…="https://mailchi.mp/publicationethics/authorship-issues-peer-review-manipulation-cope-digest-december-2018">Read December Digest: Authorship Issues | Peer Review Manipulation (Image credit: Leaf changing colour. License: CC0 Public Domain https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=59188&picture=leaf-changing-color)… - News
Allegations of Misconduct webinar summary, April 2019
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New Members: July-October 2019
…Association Corporate: Association of University Presses Associate Corporate: Research-publishing.net Associate: Itamar Ashkenazi Associate: - Forum discussion topics
Ethical considerations around watchlists
…href="https://beallslist.net/">Beall’s List (closed in 2017). However, these often create controversy over lack of transparency, reputational risk, and data protection. Cabell’s Predatory Reports are the latest iteration, but as a paid-for service they engage in deeper evaluation of journals and are transparent about the criteria they use. Now, the increasing… - News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…the latter, recent data shows poor reproducibility so the project will look at how well this works in experimental philosophy.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324496210_Estimating_the_reproducibility_of_experimental_philosophy Peer… - News
Citations: Link, Locate, Discover, Connect
…Sources Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes, and the Book Citation Indexes, making the WoS Core Collection, in totem, the source of references that determine the JCR metrics. Only the Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index journals currently have JCR metrics published. [3] Hubbard SC and McVeigh ME (2011). “Casting a Wide Net: the Journal Impact… - News
Artificial intelligence in the news
…acknowledgements. Authors continue to challenge their readers with use of AI: one article submitted under the name of human scholars on ‘Chatting and Cheating’ was later revealed to be written by ChatGTP. Interestingly, it concluded that AI tools ‘raise a number of challenges… - News
In the news: February Digest
…Philip Moriarty, but he’s concerned that despite the reduced net work effort, authors may not want editors of their new journal for submission know they had been rejected before.
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