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Reports of COPE/BMJ meeting on research misconduct
Initial reports of the meeting on research misconduct organized jointly by COPE and the BMJ have been published in the BMJ and also in Nature which has also published an - Event
COPE Forum
The September COPE Forum will be held on Wednesday 09 September 2015, 3.00pm–4.30pm (British Summer Time) at The Montcalm Hotel, 34-40 Great Cumberland Place, London, W1H 7TW. Full details can be found here. … - News
SpotOn London 2012: Q&A with Dr Ginny Barbour
Leading up to the session on academic misconduct and fraud at SpotOn London, on 11-12 November, COPE chair Ginny Barbour did a Q&A for Nature. See here:… - Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2015: Altmetric.com: who, what, when, where and why
…Download presentation: Altmetric.com: who, what, when, where and why [PDF, 2500KB]… - Case
Plagiarism and copyright of material without permission
…electronic and hard copy published papers. It has a Creative Commons permission 3.0 publishing license. All authors submit written copyright forms for their articles before publishing. The CC license requires that an appropriate credit be given, which in this case has not been done. In this case, specifically: 1. All articles in this e-book that were 'stolen' from the journal have no… - Event
Medical Communications Forum: Trust & Transparency
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In the news: May 2018 Digest
…interviewed the authors of a study which found that authors who have multiple retractions are more likely to reoffend.https://retractionwatch.com/2018/04/09/how-often-do-scientists-who-commit-misconduct-do-it-again/ A prominent psychologist had to resign as Editor after concerns were… - News
In the news: November 2018 Digest
…findings. COPE Council member Deborah Kahn Read November Digest: Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections… - News
In the news: October-November 2021
…authorship on a paper, has been receiving attention recently. A recent article in Retraction Watch drew our attention to two sites, one in Iran and one in Latvia, that appeared to sell authorship slots on finished papers, whilst another site… - Event
COPE Forum: August 2018
The next COPE Forum will be a face to face meeting at the INANE Conference at The Liberty Hotel in Boston, USA. All COPE members are welcome to join this Forum in person, whether or not you are attending INANE. It will… - News
Nature Publishing Group wins libel case
Nature Publishing Group has won the libel case brought against them by Mohamed El Naschie, former editor of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (CSF) regarding an article published in 2008: ‘Self-publishing editor set to retire’. Read more on the judgement - News
Wiley launch new ethics guidelines
…href="http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=v9vyzrfes6yld5ex56dh&u=9348661&f=h">here and the Guidelines found here.… - News
In the news: October 2020
…use by people with print disabilities. Diversity and inclusivity F1000 Research and Wellcome Open Research have instituted a straightforward way for researchers who have transitioned to their true gender identify to have a simple and straightforward way to - Event
NISO Plus Conference 2023
The NISO Plus conference, over two days, will cover topics such as persistent identifier infrastructure, metadata and AI, peer review and metadata, and much more. COPE Council Member, Rachel Safer, will participate in the session on DEIA and NISO standards about COPE's work on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. 16 February 2pm… - News
In the news: February Digest
…Misconduct A review of scholarly articles on the prevalence of ghost writing in scientific literature to be between 0.9% and 75%. Resources to address this such as the European Medical Writers Association ICMJE, and WAME are addressed. - News
COPE Competition!
…Please send suggestions by 15 September http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PFN7K68…