- Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2015: Let’s all agree on what we’re counting and how: Progress on standards for new metrics in scholarship
…Download presentation: Let’s all agree on what we’re counting and how: Progress on standards for new metrics in scholarship [PDF, 4990KB]… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 23 September 2014: Standard retraction form
Hervé Maisonneuve, Université de Lyon, France, suggested “a standard retraction form” as the topic for discussion at this Forum. Background Retractions are often used as a proxy for publication quality. Retractions have been studied with cohorts of various sizes over differing time periods. Time after time these studies have pointed out that there is often… - News
Standards in Authorship webinar summary
…Standards in authorship COPE Webinar 29 June, 2017 Watch and listen again to the recording of our Standards in Authorship webinar. COPE made history on 29th June 2017 with the first COPE educational webinar on the topic of The protection of vulnerable groups and individuals
…COPE position statement The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) supports international ethical standards related to research and publication of research that relate to vulnerable groups and individuals. Examples of standards include WMA…- News
COPE endorses GPP3
COPE endorses Good Publication Practice for Communicating Company-Sponsored Medical Research: GPP3[1]. Authors working in corporate–academic research collaborations must follow appropriate ethical standards. GPP3 describes such standards, and promotes the ethical practices established by organisations like COPE, ICMJE, and WMA. Amongst many recommendations, GPP3 places emphasis… - Case
A patient was given an experimental course of complementary medicine when a standard treatment was available
A case report was submitted to a journal, describing a patient with a very serious, curable infectious disease who had been given complementary medicine (plant extract) rather than the standard treatment. A search of the literature indicated that the authors were known to support complementary therapies. The alternative treatment was not evidence based. The case took place in a country were…