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New COPE members Jan-March 2019
…href="http://publicationethics.org/members/jornal-de-pediatria">Jornal de Pediatria (Elsevier) Journal of Accounting and Organizations (School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting at Ribeirao Preto (FEA-RP/ USP) Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment… - Case
Author of rejected paper publicly names and criticises peer reviewer
…="http://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/Discussion_document__on_handling_competing_interests.pdf">http://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/Discussion_document__on_handling_competing_interests.pdf) Related resource Spanish version: El autor de un artículo rechazado nombra… FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…Standard retraction form Hervé Maisonneuve, Université de Lyon, France, suggests a standard retraction form and would like feedback from COPE members. 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…- News
Guest editorial: Data availability statements
…available upon reasonable request. Therefore, we requested de-identified raw data to reproduce the published analyses using the same methods and to test the hypotheses using statistical approaches established to be appropriate for the study design. Data were not made available to us. The authors mentioned they preferred “not to engage in extensive post-hoc analyses without a clear rationale,” despite our… - News
Thank you and farewell to Council Members
…target="_blank">Revista Española de Cardiología, the official journal of the Spanish Society of Cardiology, Spain Jason Hu - joined COPE while at ORCID, China. Now at Taylor &… - Flowcharts
How to recognise potential manipulation of the peer review process
…review or publishing process. Related resources Cómo reconocer la potencial manipulación del proceso de revisión por pares - Case
Reviewer's identity revealed
…="https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_account-mso_mac-mso_365hp/make-reviewer-comments-anonymous-in-already/343f3f74-efe0-4825-8086-de2427e863cf" target="_blank">make reviewer comments anonymous.… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Trustworthy AI for the future of publishing
…src="/files/u1069951/cope-seminar-ibo-van-de-poel-90x90-cir_1.png" style="margin: 3px 10px; width: 90px; height: 90px; float: left;" />Finally, Ibo van de Poel, Professor in ethics and technology, and Head of Department of Values, Technology and Innovation at TU Delft, the Netherlands, discussed the ethical issues of using AI for decision support. He referenced the EU expert group on AI, which has formulated four ethical principles for the foundations for… - News
Authorship, a blunt tool: "20 Jahre Research Integrity in Deutschland Was hat sich verändert? Wie geht es weiter?"
…height: 125px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; float: left;" />The Symposium der Ombudspersonen für Gute Wissenschaftliche Praxis was held last month in Berlin. COPE was there, leading a workshop titled “Towards better research authorship”. Chris Graf, Co-Chair, with… - Case
Author displays bullying behaviour towards handling editor
…poll, and was asking for more detail, it might have been possible to de-escalate the situation by giving more detail on why the appeal was declined. Another suggested approach was to look at this from the point of view of a difficult personality with misdirected enthusiasm, someone who does not understand the process well, but is engaged and enthusiastic, who might respond to direction and… - Case
Removing a retracted article from a third party site
We followed the Forum’s guidance and sought legal advice, including a review of our guidance to authors on consent for case reports. We requested to have the result on website Z de-indexed from search engines. We sent a takedown notice to the copyright agent of website Z under their DMCA policy. We consider the case still open as the content has not been removed. Update - News
New Members: July-October 2019
…href="https://publicationethics.org/members/review-development-and-change">Review of Development and Change Revista Internacional de Educacion Musical SAE International Journal of Alternative Powertrains - Case
Is ethics committee approval necessary for retrospective clinical studies?
…countries requires prior approval to make sure that privacy is preserved, that only the necessary records are used, that the data are appropriately de-identified, and to allow for reasonable oversight to verify that those standards are maintained. It is important to verify that this is the case. Related resources - Seminars and webinars
Handling a case of misconduct
…although they can present difficulties when more information is needed. Perceptions of the process, standards of knowledge, and the resources and time required are identified as key areas where change would be welcome, especially in de-stigmatising corrections that protect the scholarly record. Back to top - Guidelines
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
…href="http://ceon.rs/">ceon.rs. Version 4.0, 2022 Principios de Transparencia y Mejores Prácticas en Publicaciones Académicas Latin American Spanish, Version 3.0, 2018 Back to top About COPE The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is… - News
In the news: February Digest
…that there will be a decreased need for animal experiments.https://www.bfr.bund.de/en/press_information/2019/01/strengthen_science__avoid_unnecessary_animal_experiments-239405.html A South African academic decries his country’s… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2020: Understanding text recycling
…and the authors feel that citing their prior work may result in excessive self-citation (a different ethical issue), authors are not required to cite that recycled material. 2. What about the reuse of abstracts and copyright? These seem to have a de facto status of fair use (they appear on PubMed and many other websites). Can we say that reusing abstracts is always fair… - Forum discussion topics
Predatory publishing: next steps and where do we go from here?
…-practice-scholarly-publishing">Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing may be considered the de facto standards for membership among organisations, such as COPE, OASPA, DOAJ, and WAME, but this would be a proactive advancement of these principles, not just as membership criteria but as global standards for publication integrity. Should COPE and/or other… - News
In the news: February Digest
…used to de-legitimise disciplines. To combat this, the authors urge journal editors to experiment with variations of open peer review, which they define broadly, in order to shine light on the peer review process. Such a step would differentiate legitimate peer review journals from predatory journals, for which such light would likely only illuminate a void. - News
Citations: Link, Locate, Discover, Connect
…analysis. Suppression of a journal from a given year of the JCR is not an evaluation of cause, only a assessment of effect; therefore suppression from JCR does not always result in de-selection from Science Citation Index Expanded or the Social Sciences Citation Index. Evaluation of the metrics accuracy and evaluation of Editorial contribution are separate. Citation ethics as a community…