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COPE Workshop at 4th WCRI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 31–June 3, 2015
COPE will be leading a workshop at the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on publication ethics for editors, members of editorial boards and reviewers on Sunday May 31, 2015. This is an excellent opportunity for participants to discuss current trends in publication ethics, learn about how to handle possible misconduct… - News
COPE workshop August 2019: Santiago, Chile
On August 29, the IV Scientific Editor’s Forum was held at the Universidad de Los Lagos, in Santiago, Chile. Over 100 editors mainly from social sciences, arts and humanities attended for a two-day meeting on publishing and editorial standards. COPE held a workshop that was facilitated by Vivienne C. Bachelet (editor-in-chief of Medwave and… - News
New: Spanish resources
…Week 2018 we translated COPE peer review resources into Spanish. Guías éticas para Revisores Pares Guidelines - News
First Brazilian Meeting on Research Integrity, Science and Publication Ethics (I BRISPE), December 2010
I BRISPE joins together the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF), the Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), the University of São Paulo (USP) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), in association with the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). The I BRISPE… - News
2nd Brazilian Meeting on Research Integrity, Science and Publication Ethics
The 2nd Brazilian Meeting on Research Integrity, Science and Publication Ethics takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre between 28 May 2012 and 1 June 2012. Click here for more information. … - News
Principles of Transparency translations: Spanish and Portuguese
The Principles of Transparency have now been translated into Spanish (Latin American) and Portuguese: Principles of Transparency: Latin American Spanish - Event
Scientific symposium and 4th EQUATOR Annual Lecture
…href="mailto:equatormeeting@cochrane.de">[email protected] to register your interest.When the call for abstracts and registration opens we will contact you directly. More information is available on the EQUATOR Network website http://www.equator-network.org/.… - Flowcharts
What to consider when asked to peer review a manuscript
…the editor Related resources Qué considerar al ser invitado a hacer una revisión por pares de un manuscrito - Case
Online trial of a new diagnostic tool
…at all. - Despite the claim that no relationship was formed, there is a de facto therapeutic relationship. - The paper indicated that the website was carrying out research on “patients” and so it could be argued that ethics approval should be sought. - The editor should engage the authors in a debate about the fact that there is a de facto relationship that could potentially harm vulnerable… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical practice in research data publication - challenges, lessons and opportunities
… Over the past decade, we have seen a marked increase in the publication of research data, driven by journal, funder, and institutional policies. This has brought ethical challenges specific to datasets, which can affect the journal publication related to the… - 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… - Case
Institutional review board approval required?
…that the data are not publicly available, and that the data include follow-up telephone interviews, which seem in conflict with the requirement that the data should be de-identified, and that indeed the follow-up interview information are new data, not existing data or records. Question(s) for the COPE Forum Is this research publishable in the absence of IRB…