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COPE Forum: 12 February 2016
The February COPE Forum will be held on Friday 12 February 2016, 3pm to 4.30pm (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar.… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2014: two travel grants to attend the COPE seminar
…COPE European Seminar 2014 report - Dr Parasuraman, Chief Editor of Journal of Young Pharmacist [PDF, 86KB] COPE European Seminar… - Case
Redundant publication?
The paper discussed the use of drug X in condition Y, submitted to journal A. It is a double blind randomised controlled trial, presenting the 1 year result in 129 women. It finds that drug X helps in condition Y. The authors published a similar paper in journal B, 2 months before submission of this paper to journal A. The journal B paper studied the same question in 601 women with a 2 year fo… - Case
The discontented and abandoned contributor
…had already been rejected, these questions didn’t arise. But the editor asked the author of the letter, who had written in confidence, if he might copy his reply to the authors of the rejected study. Does COPE think that the editor has done the right thing, and what more might be done?… - Event
Seventh International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication
The Seventh International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication will be held September 8-10, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois. As with the previous congresses, the aim is to improve the quality and credibility of biomedical peer review and publication and to help advance the efficiency, effectiveness and equitability of the dissemination of biomedical information throughout the… - Case
Comments linked to retracted papers
A journal has received comments linked to a research paper that later has been retracted. This has led to a debate over whether there should be some notification beyond the link to the actual retracted paper. Questions for COPE Council Should the comments themselves be retracted? What does COPE recommend? What do other journals do? … - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: July 2020
…you at COPE. This issue is focused on text recycling and we want to bring your attention to the upcoming COPE webinar on August 7, 2020 understanding text recycling. The speakers are from the Text Recycling Research Project (TRRP) and will be led by Cary Moskovitz,… - Case
Lack of acknowledgement of contributor
Our case relates to a paper (by author’s A and B) that was retracted because of lack of acknowledgement of the contribution of another author (C). The retraction statement noted: “While the A/B paper is largely the work of A and B, it includes some sentences and ideas that previously appeared in an unpublished paper and/or Power Point presentation only with A and C listed as authors. We regret… - News
COPE Flowcharts now available in Persian
14 of the 17 COPE flowcharts are now available in Persian. The remaining three (fabricated data in a submitted manuscript, fabricated data in a published manuscript, and how COPE deals with complaints againt member journals) will be available shortly. The Persian flowcharts join the Italian, Spanish, French and Chinese versions already available. Korean, Japanese, Turkish and Croatian will… - Event
Call for cases: 24 April 2017 Forum
The COPE will at 6.30am and 4pm (BST) will be held by webinar and is open to COPE members. Call for cases Cases can be submitted on our website and must be anonymised. We do like those presenting a case to take part in the Forum: pick which time is suitable for you. Deadline for submissions: Monday 10 April - News
Call for cases - November COPE Forum
Our next COPE Forum, where we discuss cases submitted by members, will be held by webinar on Monday 13 November 2017. Cases need to be submitted by Monday 30 October. Submit a case… - Event
EASE/ISMTE joint meeting
COPE will be holding an interactive workshop at the joint meeting of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) and the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE). In this workshop, a number of cases based on real-life examples brought to COPE, and covering some of the most pressing problems currently faced by editors and journals, will be discussed. Co-Secretary… - News
EASE/ISMTE joint meeting
23-24 September 2013, Blankenberge, Belgium COPE will be holding an interactive workshop at the joint meeting of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) and the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE). In this workshop, a number of cases based on real-life examples brought to COPE, and covering some of the most pressing problems currently… - Event
COPE Forum: 10 March 2015
The March COPE Forum will be held on Tuesday 10 March 2015, 3–4.30pm (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. Click here for full details.… - News
COPE Forum: 10 March 2015 meeting
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Tuesday 10 March, 3–4.30pm (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. Click here for full details. … - Case
Possible omission of information essential for conclusions in a research paper
In 2013, our journal published a paper describing an observational study comparing two drugs (A and B) for the management of a chronic disease over a period of 10 years. The conclusion in the paper was that mortality was higher in group A (97 deaths) compared with the other group B (52 deaths) (hazard ratio 1.76, 1.22 to 2.53; P=0.003). This analysis was done after adjustment for a large… - Case
Plagiarism and copyright of material without permission
…electronic and hard copy published papers. It has a Creative Commons permission 3.0 publishing license. All authors submit written copyright forms for their articles before publishing. The CC license requires that an appropriate credit be given, which in this case has not been done. In this case, specifically: 1. All articles in this e-book that were 'stolen' from the journal have no… - 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… - Case
Redundant publication and a question of authorship
A paper was reviewed and subsequently published in December 1999. A further publication with an almost identical title, but with different authors, was published in another journal in 2000. It is quite clear both papers relate to the same study, and apart from some minor differences in style, which were probably requested by the editorial offices, they seem to be identical. The editor of the… - News
In the news: July Digest
…="_blank">https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/ugc-move-to-thwart-pay-and-publish-trash-culture/story-AP0BFFrbNuL1mN5WNbgCjI.html Peer review An experiment on peer review conducted by researchers at Harvard Business School, found that almost 50% of reviewers of medical funding applications changed their own ratings…