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Artificial intelligence and authorship
There has been a tweet circulating recently which gives instructions on how to remove a peanut butter sandwich from a video recorder, written in the style of Biblical verse. It’s very funny – at least until you realise that it was written by an AI bot. At that stage it becomes very clever, but it loses… - 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: May & June 2022
…expanded beyond student cheating to understand its frequency in the academy and whether national policies to combat it are effective. In a globally conducted AI survey Role and Impact of AI on the Future of Academic Publishing the analysis reported some… - Event
Forum on Good Publication Practices, University of Macau
15:00 – 17:30 CST Trevor Lane, COPE Council Member, will speak at the Forum which pulls together consensual views on Good Publication Practices (GPP) for authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers of scientific journals. Topics to be covered at the Forum include: AI technologies for upholding the GPP Common dilemmas for journal editors Which… - Event
COPE Seminar 2021
…="https://publicationethics.org/resources/seminars-and-webinars/ethical-versus-fraudulent-authorship">Watch ethical authorship webinar Trustworthy AI for the future of publishing This session provides an overview of COPE’s recommendations regarding AI decision-making in publishing, followed by presentations by two experts who will highlight the differences between algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence, with the associated new developments to… - Seminars and webinars
Publication misconduct tools
…transparency and science both post-submission and post-acceptance stages. The hope is that it will lead to the need for fewer retractions by identifying high risk papers before they get to publication. Text analysis and plagiarism: AI a thought partner for humans Lee Gaul spoke on behalf of Copyleaks, where he is the Head of Enterprise Sales. Copyleaks is an AI platform which performs text… COPE position statements
…all stakeholders involved in research and publication integrity. COPE supports the United2Act consensus statement on action against paper mills and will be taking part in its action plan. Read the Paper mills position statement. Authorship and AI tools (2023) COPE considers that AI tools, such as…Press
…href="https://publicationethics.org/cope-position-statements/ai-author">Authorship and AI tools COPE has released a position statement on Authorship and AI tools. COPE considers that AI tools, such as ChatGPT, cannot be listed as author of a paper, and their use must be fully transparent. 13 February 2023 Revised principles of…- Event
Society for Scholarly Publishing annual meeting
…they allow participants to explore how to they define, promote and reinforce publication ethics standards. Topics of focus will include: Plagiarism, including self-plagiarism Hoax articles Promoting equity and inclusion Authorship and AI … - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: November 2019
…explores the ethics of routine antenatal care in pregnant women with a systematic illness compared to active management of the illness in the intervention group. November’s forum was on the topic of Artificial intelligence in decision making. A number of the questions and comments were directly and indirectly about the… - Event
Publication Integrity Week 2023
…discrimination Ethical concerns in research on urbanisation video Discussion on the collaborative research agenda and equitable access to research, with a focus on the Global South. AI and peer review… - News
In the news: June 2021
…extent to which AI systems may replicate bias. This study discusses the potential, pitfalls, and uncertainties of the use of AI to approximate or assist human decisions in the quality assurance and peer-review process associated with research outputs. A - News
Paper mills: United to act
…Papers. Council members Dr Sarah Elaine Eaton and Dr Marie Soulière introduced the topic, and the recording is available to watch again, with a summary of the discussion. During the Forum various questions were raised surrounding the use of AI for fake paper creation and the production of papers… - News
In the news: November Digest
…href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/are-legal-concerns-stifling-scientific-debate" target="_blank">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/are-legal-concerns-stifling-scientific-debate Other news David Beer looks at a new AI driven tool which provides digested summaries of the research literature and asks whether these help research efficiency. - Event
ISMTE European Conference 2019
…a world that’s changing, fast. There is an exciting agenda planned including sessions on topics such as AI in editorial and peer review workflows, improving submission quality, and graphical and video abstracts. Attendees can save $50 by registering before September 16. … - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: January 2024
…ethics of design, development, publication of clinical research projects, and predatory publishing. Finally, COPE members have the opportunity to register for two upcoming COPE events – a Lightning Talk on AI and an Introduction to… Member Insight
…href="https://mailchi.mp/publicationethics/cope-member-insight-batch-paper-mills">Multi-article paper mill cases | Fake journals, April 2023 The impact of artificial intelligence on authorship is discussed in this special issue with editorials from editors and COPE, plus the recent position statement from COPE on AI and authorship. The webinar- News
Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…href="https://peerreviewweek.wordpress.com/events-and-activities-2023/"> Peer review and the future of publishing. October also saw a COPE Forum on peer review models, and COPE’s recent Publication Integrity Week featured a lively session on AI and peer review (on which more in Part 2 of this… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: November 2021
…="https://publicationethics.org/resources/seminars-and-webinars/ethical-versus-fraudulent-authorship">Ethical authorship versus fraudulent authorship are now available on our website. At the seminar, we also released a new discussion document on Artificial intelligence in decision making. This guidance focuses on the key ethical issues around accountability, responsibility, and transparency in… - News
Open retractions data: podcast
… Summary Describe the new partnership between the two nonprofit groups and tell us how it came about? Crossref acquired Retraction Watch's database of article retractions, aligning with their shared mission. The partnership means Crossref…