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  • Case

    Lack of ethical approval and not reporting experimental evidence

    …authorities, “the authors have been kept informed of these facts, which are in breach of the rules of good scientific conduct”. One of the articles is coauthored by three colleagues from another university. They have asked the journal that their names be removed. The author of the articles, who received a copy of the letter from the Vice-Rector, asked to have some time to send in his rebuttal…
  • Job vacancy: COPE content writer

    …Council. The successful candidate should also be detail oriented and committed to meeting tight deadlines. Preference will be given to those with a strong writing portfolio and relevant work experience. This is a freelance role of up to 15 hours per month. Pay = £30 per hour. COPE is a virtual organisation and the role is based from home. Most meetings are conducted virtually but expenses will be…
  • Forum discussion topics

    Coordinating multi-journal complaints

    …the publishers in a coordinated way, and all parties have the same information. As a first step, perhaps editors and publishers could reach consensus regarding the fact that it is better to look at the broader context of a complaint, particularly from the perspective of the institution conducting the investigation. Although coordination and working together is a good idea, guidance…
  • Case

    Temporary exception to double anonymised review policy

    The journal conducts double-anonymous reviews of all manuscripts submitted. As part of the decision process, reviewers routinely receive a copy of the decision letter, which includes reviewers’ comments. In the transition to a new editorial staff, a change to the email template inadvertently meant that the full letter was sent out, including the corresponding author’s name. Before this was…
  • Case

    Licence for a published scale

    We have received a number of manuscripts involving a published scale where the scale’s developer is known to comb the literature and ask those who used the scale for research to pay for a retroactive license, sometimes asking for very large sums of money. We have started asking authors on all submissions where the scale is used to provide a copy of the license agreement with the scale’s…
  • Case

    Satire in scholarly publishing

    An intentional satire of a randomised controlled trial was published in a journal. In addition to multiple overt clues that the article was fake in the text, the article ended with a clear and direct statement in the acknowledgments that it was satire. Investigators conducting a systematic review on the topic inadvertently included the satire article in their review as a legitimate…
  • Case

    Authorship dispute involving a commercial institution

    …patent co-inventors participated in the specific research presented in the article and stated that they were involved at a much earlier stage. Both sides are accusing the other side of providing false information, and the journal has no way of verifying this (eg, who conducted which experiments or provided blood samples).    The complainants continue to insist that the journal should handle…
  • FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please

    …expression of concern if there is evidence that findings are unreliable but no investigation will be conducted? 9. What is the best name for this type of notice? Publisher’s note and editorial note are among the alternatives. References Correcting the Literature, CSE’s White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications, 2012 Update
  • Case

    Authorship dispute during the review process

    During the review process for a manuscript submitted to our journal, one of the reviewers alerted us that the manuscript appeared to be the work of a collaborator (Dr X) who was not listed as an author on the paper. It became clear that the manuscript’s corresponding author (Dr Y, affiliation A) was a postdoctoral researcher supervised by Dr X (previously at affiliation A, recently moved to…
  • Event

    ISMTE European Conference 2019

    …promoting respect for the people who benefit from well-conducted and well-communicated research: Us all. But while these standards remain, research and research publishing are changing at speed. In this session, COPE Trustee and Immediate Past Co-Chair Chris Graf will describe what COPE is doing right now to provide answers to emerging and often difficult publishing ethics questions in…
  • FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please

    …Publication ethics issues in the social sciences BackgroundThe history of research ethics in general and publication ethics more specifically was initially and primarily grounded in the biomedical sciences. As concern over issues of animal care, human participant protection and research integrity developed throughout the latter part of the 20th century, some…
  • News

    Letter from the COPE Chair: January 2020

    …update on the status of research integrity  in China which is included in this issue. Also, ICMJE has recently posted a very helpful set of “recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing and publication of
  • Case

    Handling conflicts of interest between authors and academic editors

    …the managing editor and academic editor make initial checks on all submissions. The managing editor conducts a check for plagiarism and reviews the manuscript for suitability according to journal scope and appropriate format. If they pass this initial check manuscripts are assigned to an academic editor after disclosing any conflicts of interest (CoI) (there is a checklist for this as part of the…
  • Outcomes of editors' attempts to investigate research misconduct

    …fund. The trust board had agreed with the consultant that if he went quietly, they would not inform the GMC or inform the police, and they would destroy the evidence. When I reported this man to the GMC, the medical director was the chair of the professional conduct committee. When I went to the NHS fraud squad they told me: "We don't really worry unless it's more than £15

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