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Managing an editor’s undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article
An opinion piece on a polarising political and technological topic was published. A discussion ensued on social media, and shortly after, the publisher received a formal complaint stating that the editor-in-chief of the journal, who had managed the peer review process for the manuscript, had a conflict of interest and should not have made the final acceptance decision. When the publishing team… - Case
Article published at two journals after withdrawal from first journal
Journal B was contacted by a group of authors who had published their article in Journal B a few months previously. The authors were concerned as they found that their article had been published by Journal A, a journal they had previously submitted the article to but withdrawn prior to publication. Journal B requested the withdrawal confirmation from the authors, and this was duly provided. On… - News
Authorship, a blunt tool: "20 Jahre Research Integrity in Deutschland Was hat sich verändert? Wie geht es weiter?"
…Lancet) and more rigid “controlled vocabulary” approaches (like those enabled by the CRediT taxonomy). We talked about the challenges using author order to assign credit for research. Together, we played out three case-based scenarios (from COPE’s discussion document “ - News
In the news: April 2020
…href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17414857/2020/33/1" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17414857/2020/33/1 Wellcome commissioned a review of research culture, including literature review, qualitative interviews and surveys. This report,"What Researchers Think About the Culture they work in" explores the findings. - Forum discussion topics
Author behavioural misconduct
December 2022 Increasingly, journals and publishers are being notified or even asked to act when authors – or others involved in the publication process – are accused or convicted of crimes or various forms of “behavioural misconduct,” such as abuse or harassment. For the purposes of this discussion, “behavioural misconduct” is defined as… - News
WCRI 2019: Predatory publishing plenary
…Patwardhan, vice-chair of the University Grants Commission in India, and myself, Matt Hodgkinson, Head of Research Integrity at Hindawi. - News
Complaints and appeals
…upcoming COPE Forum and more. Read April 2018 Digest: Complaints and Appeals… - News
Post-publication discussions and corrections focus
…--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read November Digest: Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections. This issue of Digest announces new resources What to do if you Suspect Image Manipulation in a Published… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2022: Managing paper mills
…Practical steps for managing paper mills September 2022 During Peer Review Week COPE hosted a webinar for journal editors and publishers on the practical steps to take in managing paper mills. Speakers described their experience of managing paper mills affecting their journals, with practical tips on how to manage systematic… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2019: Exploring Publication Ethics Issues in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
…review had been particularly critical. 5) Half of respondents have experienced self-plagiarism, with 22% saying this arose frequently. Again, this was especially widespread in Business, Finance and Economics (65% of editors working in these fields). 6) In the case of fraudulent submissions, these appeared to come up infrequently, though nearly 20% of… - Event
COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
This webinar has ended Watch the webinar recording which includes presentations by the speakers and the question and answer session. - Webform
COPE Asia-Pacific Workshop, Melbourne 2020
…Publication ethics workshop Tuesday 15 September 2020, 1-4.30pm Jasper Hotel, Melbourne About Registration Special offer: ISMTE 2020 Asia-Pacific Conference Your privacy - Event
15th EASE General Assembly and Conference
…trainer Pippa Smart Wednesday, 30 June, 9.00am-11.00am BST Thursday, 1 July 9.00am-11.00am BST Price £320, EASE conference delegates are eligible for 50% discount, £160 Course 2: Avoid those common… - Case
Failure to ask permission
I am a trainer and author of books on medical writing. It was brought to my attention that a chapter in a German-language book published in Switzerland was based almost entirely on my teaching. The first author is director of a privately funded research institution and the second author a member of staff. The second author attended one of my courses. There is a general statement at the beginnin… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…retracted and this damaged faith in community-driven rapid review. This time, however, we seem so far to have avoided these reservations. The story started on 28 July when a research group from South Korea announced on the ArXiv preprint server that they had found a material which acted as a superconductor at room temperature [1, 2]. FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…in Qualitative Research on Internet Communities. BMJ, 323 (7321), 1103-1105.Hoeyer, K., Dahlager, L. and Lynoe, N. (2005). Conflicting Notion of Research Ethics: The Mutually Challenging Traditions of Social Scientists and Medical Researchers. Social Science & Medicine, 61, 1741-1749.Katz, J. (2006) Ethical Escape Routes for Underground Ethnographers. American Ethnologist, 33 (4),…- Case
Inadequate assurance of human research ethics for a questionnaire
A questionnaire was distributed to knowledge workers in an organisation to investigate the following hypotheses: — H1.There is a positive and significant relationship between ethics and organizational performance.— H2. There is a positive and significant relationship between ethics and intellectual capital.— H3. There is a positive and significant relationship between intelle… Seminars
…presentation [PDF 3.3 MB] CrossMark: there is no final version — Ed Pentz, CrossMark Watch presentation [13:30] Download presentation [PDF 7.5 MB] Legal issues in corrections and retractions — Joss Saunders, Blake Lapthorn Solicitors Watch…- Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2022: Relationship between universities and publishers
…class="resource-download-inline"> Presentation The critical relationship between universities and COPE - Forum discussion topics
Best practices for guest edited collections
…infringement of copyright. Potential criteria to judge this issue could be the inclusion of more analysis, or proportionate increase in length. A commonly applied rule of thumb is that the new submission be at least 30 per cent different from the conference proceeding paper. See the STM…