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Where next in peer review? Part 2: COPE commentary
…a surge in rapid, community-led peer review because of the urgent need to understand more about the virus. Unfortunately, a number of the resulting articles later had to be retracted and this damaged faith in community-driven rapid review. This time, however, we seem so far to have avoided these reservations. COPE… - News
Comments please: framework for editors when requesting patient consent for publication in small cohort studies
The International Rhuematology Editors' Group would like to receive comments from wider specialty communities on their framework below. Please send any comments to Shehnaz Ahmed. Framework for editors when requesting patient consent for publication in small… - News
New: Chinese resources
…href="https://twitter.com/i/moments/861565146476544001">COPE China #C0PEChina Tweets… - Seminars and webinars
Post-publication critiques
…co-founder of PubPeer, a not-for-profit website which allows readers and authors to comment on scholarly publications. Nick Wise is a researcher in fluid dynamics and an integrity ‘sleuth’ whose work has resulted in over 900 retractions. Peter Doshi is an associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research and leads the - Case
Dealing with cases with culturally offensive content
…including the use of disclaimers or ‘flags’ on individual articles, and general position statements on the historic context of language now deemed offensive (see, for example, an article by the Journal of the American Medical Association). Concerns were voiced that disclaimers could stigmatise the authors, and also imply the… - Forum discussion topics
Ethical considerations around watchlists
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Building an international register of ongoing systematic reviews: have your say
…published in The Lancet. In order to arrive at an internationally agreed minimum data… - Event
COPE Forum: 3 August 2016
The August COPE Forum, where we discuss cases submitted by members, is a face to face meeting in London at the International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE) Nurses Conference. This will be held at the Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London. Register for the Forum - Webform
COPE Asia-Pacific Workshop, Melbourne 2020
…href="https://www.jasperhotel.com.au/" target="_blank">Jasper Hotel, 489 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Australia. Registration Please register for the workshop by completing the form below (unless you are also attending the ISMTE Conference - see below for details). The workshop is free for COPE members and ISMTE members. Registration will close on 1 September 2020. ISMTE… - News
WCRI 2019: Predatory publishing plenary
…articles, many subscription journals also charge authors fees, and hijacked journals can present as subscription journals. Tweets about the session can be seen at - Case
Ethical concerns about a study involving human subjects
…href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2245850" rel="nofollow">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2245850… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: How do publication ethics practices for journals apply to book publishing?
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Citations: Link, Locate, Discover, Connect
…Factor denominator.” Learned Publishing 24: 133-137. https://doi.org/10.1087/20110208 [4] http://ipscience-help.thomsonreuters.com/incitesLiveJCR/10667-TRS.html The JIF for 2017 is calculated as the ratio… FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…editors/reviewers? The Forum is open to COPE members who need to register by Friday 10 November. Comments on this discussion are open to all below: This will be discussed at the next COPE Forum on Monday 13 November 2017. Please do leave any comments below, whether or not you are planning on joining the…History and context of the COPE guidelines
…Practice (PDF, 112 KB) in the Annual Report of 1999. Original Code of Conduct in 2004 In 2004, Richard Smith, then Chair of COPE and Editor of the BMJ, with Pritpal Tamber and Jeremy Theobald, drafted a Code of Conduct for Editors. The Code of Conduct built on the Guidelines on Good…- Discussion documents
Who 'owns' peer reviews? September 2017
…owns peer reviews?" in this 2017 podcast. Related resources Editing peer reviews guidelines - Seminars and webinars
Publication ethics, research integrity and climbing mountains
…allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QCufwG1_r7o?rel=0"> Back to top Keynote address: Publication misconduct and fraud day Those working in scholarly publications currently face many ‘mountains’ or… - News
Research integrity and how to buy a Persian carpet: TOP Guidelines, part 2
…Picture by Garry Knight (Flickr: Persian Carpet) CC BY-SA 2.0 at http://bit.ly/2FKpQCo In “The art of buying a carpet,” Simon Busch suggests that a wise carpet buyer checks a carpet’s knot count (“You will find much truth under the carpet: turn it… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: June 2018
…participate because he wanted his data and was reluctant to consider the broader implications. The clinical director wanted to protect staff and their personal opinions, to keep them separate from the care they provided in the clinic. While this scenario represents a broader and ongoing controversy in ethical oversight, ( - Case
Ethical conduct of qualitative research studies
…-evaluations">COPE’s guidance for editors on dealing with research audits and service evaluations may be useful. Related resources BMJ Quality and Safety policy