The COPE Case Taxonomy
…involvement or intervention in any part of the research or its publication; failure to disclose role. Funding/sponsorship concerns METRICS(Ways of assessing/measuring ‘impact’ of research output/people including but beyond just Impact Factor (e.g. altmetrics, citations, downloads, social…- News
Case discussion: Low-risk study with no ethics committee approval
…publishing case reports (outlined in COPE’s Journals’ Best Practices for Ensuring Consent for Publishing Medical Case Reports). Trevor Lane on behalf of the COPE Education… - News
In the news: August 2018 Digest
…investigation into scientific publishing practices: In the interest of science itself. Everything must be done to ensure that ‘the credibility and the great trust in science do not suffer’. - News
Case discussion: self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing
…manuscript processing, including signed copyright transfer and/or publishing agreements. Trevor Lane on behalf of the COPE Education Subcommittee… - News
Case discussion: Authors’ contributions and involvement by medical communications company
Case Summary Case 14-07 Authors' contributions and involvement by medical communications company An employee of a medical communications company contacted a journal’s editorial office. For several manuscripts, the employee had helped develop the… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/peer-review-terminology">standard peer review terminology to aid transparency and understanding of these differences. Others have started inviting specialist statistical review, or setting up ways of awarding credit to reviewers, for example, by publishing lists of reviewer… - News
Case Discussion: Lack of trial registration leads to new concerns about study conduct and ethical review/approval
…Trevor Lane on behalf of the COPE Education Subcommittee… - News
Case discussion: Possible breach of reviewer confidentiality
…href="http://publicationethics.org/guidance/Flowcharts?classification=2779">Peer review flowcharts, such as: What to consider when asked to peer review a manuscript Facilitation and Integrity FAQ
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and fake papers
…publication. Learned Publishing. 2023; 36: 73-80. Doi:10.1002/leap.1533 AI in decision making, COPE discussion document Trustworthy AI for the future of publishing, COPE Seminar… - News
In the news: April 2018 Digest
…style="color: rgb(40, 60, 70); font-family: Graphik, "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, "Apple Color Emoji", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(250, 248, 247);">CRediT). The statement includes recommendations for research institutions and societies The National Academy of Science (NAS) is maintaining a website that lists those journals that have adopted some… - News
In the news: February Digest
…href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/515643v1" target="_blank">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/515643v1 Open science Changes to the Wellcome Trust’s Open Access policy include that their funded research must be freely available at the time of publication through PubMed Central and Europe PubMed Central and published under CC-BY licensure. Wellcome Trust will not cover the cost of OA publishing in subscription… - News
In the news: June Digest
…target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05145-6 According to a study of 80 cases investigated by the US Office of Research Integrity, the first author of a paper is 38% more likely to be responsible for identified misconduct than the other authors. Should she or he be held accountable? All of the authors? Just the senior author? Arguments for these different ideas are presented here--illustrating that the answer isn't clear. - Guidelines
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
…from among the community of libraries and other academic disciplines to assist in the curation of open access journals. This independent database contains over 18,100 journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities in English and 80 other languages. DOAJ is financially supported worldwide by libraries, publishers, and other like-minded organisations.… Seminars
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Webinar 2021: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…allowed multiple options to be chosen, and received a total of 306 votes across all options. The most popular request is for Guidelines to be created (34% of votes), along with Flowcharts (26%) to aid decision making and increase confidence in processes to follow should any incidences of questionable material appear. Guidelines - 103 Flowchart - 80 Discussion Document… - News
Welcome new COPE members April-June 2019
Welcome to our new members who have joined COPE between April and June 2019. The new members have been assessed against criteria outlined in the Principles of Transparency and signing up to COPE shows that they intend to follow the highest standards of publication ethics and to apply COPE principles of publication ethics outlined in the