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Claim from an author that his name should not have been included as author on a paper
…V). We have requested a confirmatory letter from Dr V (Dr R’s advisor—the senior member of the authorship team). Dr V has responded with a letter indicating the scientific excellence of Dr R’s work but not clearly addressing the issue of whether Dr M did indeed see and approve the submitted manuscript. Dr M has written to reiterate his objection, and to clarify that he opposes publication per se… - Case
Undeclared author conflict of interest
…consider double checking with the authors of the article that the mental health resource data linked to the study were collected, used and published ethically and legally per se. If the journal is looking to review its own stated policy on conflicts of interest, it might be useful to consider the International Committee of Medical Journal Editor (ICMJE) guidelines on declarations of… - News
Creating and implementing research data policies: COPE webinar report
…management policies, namely identification (persistent identifiers), description/discovery (via associated metadata), peer review of data, and data citation. He also explained that the role of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines is not to mandate for data access per se, but to mandate disclosure of data… - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar 2018: Creating and implementing data research policies
…Guidelines is not to mandate for data access per se, but to mandate disclosure of data availability, and, if available, to require persistent identifier/s and applicable licence information. The guidelines ask for certain TOP Statements to be provided in journals, as explained in a - News
Standards in Authorship webinar summary
…are not really about authorship per se; rather, they involve other issues: self-citation, plagiarism and redundant publication. In contrast, traditions in the social sciences resemble those seen in the sciences more generally, where the student is usually the first author and the supervisor is included in the author list. Most authorship disputes tend to arise from not clearly stipulating… - News
In the news: June Digest
…to recognize that research outputs are quite varied. They are also committing to finding better ways to reward and incentivise research quality. This sounds similar to the Hong Kong Manifesto goals. https://www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Joint-Statement-EUA-SE… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2020: Understanding text recycling
…not that kind of thing that authors would want readers to notice per se; instead, the quotation marks would be used solely for the purpose of avoiding accusations of ethical or legal misconduct. We will be trying to clarify this issue in our forthcoming white paper on text recycling that will accompany our model guidelines. In the meantime, I think it would be a fairly simple matter to produce… - Forum discussion topics
Systematic manipulation of the publishing process via “paper mills”
…and the raw data may not seem obviously problematic when assessed in isolation on a case-by-case basis. There are difficulties in detecting use of ‘stock images’ as they have no obvious manipulations per se and data can be provided. The issue is only apparent across multiple published papers. Correspondence can be difficult because it is unclear if approaching… - News
Case Discussion: Withdrawal of paper at proof stage
…://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing">Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Although COPE no longer publishes any codes of practice/conduct per se, publishers and publications are expected to use and link to the COPE Core Practices, guidance, and resources when creating their own guidelines and… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2022: Managing paper mills
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