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In the news: May & June 2022
…href="https://ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-promise-and-perils-of-preprint.html">preprint scouts to identify preprints that may be a good fit for a peer-reviewed journal may be a useful method to increase appropriate submissions, but needs to be implemented with care. Predatory publishing In a comment about a global study by InterAcademy Partnership about - News
In the news: May 2020
…results for journals from the pandemic include an increase in submissions for a while if researchers use time away from shuttered labs to write papers, followed by a lull when new researchers gear up. This may alter acceptance rates, decision times and other journal metrics. - 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. - Case
Publishing corrections for articles in inactive journals
…from the same publisher. Any changes must therefore be made manually and may not get updated in PubMed Central. Questions for the Forum: Should the corrective measures be published under the original journal title (updating the table of contents for the last issue) or in the new journal which took in the older journal and its published content? Is it acceptable… - Case
Plagiarized figure
…a published figure, we contacted the corresponding author again and he/she said they had not seen the paper and it was submitted by a student. As the paper was “in press”, we thought that we may be able to withdrawn it. We contacted the research deputy of our university and the author’s university but we have received no reply. Question(s) for the COPE Forum• Is this major… - News
COPE Forum Meetings 2016
The quarterly COPE Forum meetings, where we discuss cases submitted by members, will take place in Februray, May, August and November. The Forums will be by webinar, except for the August Forum, which will be a face to face meeting in London during the INANE conference. 3-4.30pm (GMT) Friday 12 February 2016 by Webinar8-9.30am (BST) Friday 6 May 2016 by Webinar2-3.30pm… - Case
Possible deception because of omission of important information
A large study—parts of which have been published in several major journals— purported to show that a drug may reduce side effect X without acting through an important intermediate process Y. This suggests that the drug may have important advantages over similar drugs in its class, and indeed it had been marketed as such. But a critic thinks that the drug may indeed act through the intermediate… - News
Ethical Editing – Autumn 2012 issue
Download the Autumn issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE. This issue's theme is ''Connections''. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.… - Event
‘Ask COPE’
The next Ask COPE will be held on Tuesday 13 May 2014 at 3pm (British Summer Time). Further details can be found on the website: http://publicationethics.org/'ask-cope'… - News
In the news: May Digest
…Intellectual property In a discussion paper posted on SSRN, Diana Simon, a Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, explores whether it is fair or helpful to try to generalise attitudes toward plagiarism across cultures? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id… - News
In the news: May 2021
Each month, COPE Council members find and share publication ethics news. This month the news includes articles on peer review, preprints, open access, and more. Authorship This paper published in the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology and aimed at educating postgraduate scientists p… - News
Ethical Editing – Winter 2010 issue
Download the Winter issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE (http://publicationethics.org/newsletters). This issue's theme is ‘misconduct’. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.… - News
Ethical Editing – Summer 2011 issue
Download the Summer issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE.This issue's theme is 'Exploring the ethical landscape'. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.… - News
Ethical Editing – Autumn 2011 issue
Download the Autumn issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE.This issue's theme is ''Evaluating current ethical practices''. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.… - News
Ethical Editing – Winter 2011 issue
Download the Winter issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE.This issue's theme is ''Ethics around the globe''. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.… - News
Ethical Editing – Spring 2012 issue
Download the Spring issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE.This issue's theme is ''15 Years of COPE!''. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.… - News
Ethical Editing – Summer 2012 issue
Download the Summer issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE. This issue's theme is '' Correcting the literature''. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.… - Discussion documents
Addressing ethics complaints from complainants who submit multiple issues
On occasion a journal may get not one, but a series of complaints from the same source. Complaints may be directed at an author, an editor, or the journal in general. If these complaints turn out to be well founded, investigations should proceed as warranted. However, there are also cases where a complainant makes repeated allegations against a journal, editor, or author that turn out to be… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 9 September 2015: Who “owns” peer review?
Two trends have recently come together within scholarly publication; open review, and the desire to give credit to reviewers. At the convergence are organizations like Publons and Academic Karma who wish to openly acknowledge the work of peer-reviewers by recording, not only the amount, but also, in some circumstances, the content of individuals’ peer-review activity. Academics may view… - News
Ethical editing – Autumn 2010 issue
Download the Autumn issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE (http://publicationethics.org/newsletters). This issue's theme is ‘Correcting editorial inequalities’. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.…