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COPE Forum 3 February: Register & agenda
Taking part in the Forum allows members to contribute to, as well as learn from, the cases being discussed. Register now as the Forum is limited to 100 attendees. Deadline to register: Thursday 2 February Register 4pm Forum 4 - 5.30pm GMT Authorship and AI tools
…COPE position statement The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT or Large Language Models in research publications is expanding rapidly. COPE joins organisations, such as WAME and the JAMA Network among others, to state that AI tools cannot be…- Forum discussion topics
Publishing when English is not your first language
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Letter from the COPE Chair: December 2021
…not the only organisation looking more deeply at the broadening diversity. In this issue you will find a number of news items related to DEI from JAMA, which has updated their guidance on the reporting of race and ethnicity, - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2022: Book wars
…src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JqsKaZ4dtiM?rel=0"> Speaker John B Thompson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. His publications… - News
Guest editorial: Tackling paper mills
…href="https://thebiochemistblog.com/2021/05/06/papermills-in-bioscience-reports/">targeted, for some time, by a ‘paper mill’. We were fortunate that the anonymous reader was reachable, and that they were willing to discuss with us and elaborate on how they had identified some of the issues in the figures, most commonly Western blots, microscopy images, and flow cytometry graphs. In addition to learning how to identify potential paper mill articles and issues in figures as… 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… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum: 13 November 2017: Self-Citation: where's the line?
A recent post on Scholarly Kitchen [1] raised some interesting points about the ethics surrounding citation, and specifically self-citation. Previously, COPE has discussed related issues surrounding self-citation by journals and editors [2] and citation of preprints [3]. During this forum, we broadened the discussion… - News
COPE advice to editors on geopolitical intrusions on editorial decisions
…2013 1 August 2013 There has been much discussion recently on government, specifically US government, sanctions against Iran, the potential effect on Iranian researchers and some publishers have cautioned editors and reviewers about handling papers from Iran. A recent BMJ news item… - Event
Charleston Conference 2019
…& Francis) Claire Sewell, Research Skills Coordinator / Social Media Editor (Cambridge University Library / New Review of Academic Librarianship) Deborah Poff, Chair (Committee on Publication Ethics) Charleston Conference… - 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 &… Presentations
…href="/files/u2/Warwick_CHEIA.pdf">Download PDF (700 kb) Presented by Sabine Kleinert At the conference: Council of Higher Education Auditors' Annual Conference Warwick, UK September 2008 The editors' role in investigating publication misconduct- Case
Submissions from members of the editorial board
Our journal has decided that members of the editorial board are allowed to submit manuscripts which will undergo peer-review directed by the present or former editor-in-chief. It can be difficult, and I would like to present one example. A group of authors (including one member of the editorial board) submitted five manuscripts during a period of 17 days. The handling of some manuscripts… - Forum discussion topics
Author behavioural misconduct
…or not there is a topical link to the content? If so, how, and on what basis, might such a link be confirmed or denied? References Marin-Spiotta E. (2018). Harassment should count as scientific misconduct in Nature, 10 May 2018, Volume 557, page 141 Artificial intelligence (AI) in decision making: Forum discussion topic November 2019
…discussion topic, members' cases will be presented for discussion and advice from the participants of the Forum. COPE members need to register for the Forum by Friday 8 November 2019. Please do leave any…- Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2019: Allegations of misconduct
…height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u_dhX_UHRws" width="100%"> Summary Nancy Chescheir, COPE Council and Editor in Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, introduced and moderated the webinar. Nancy reminded everyone of COPE's Core Practice Allegations of Misconduct, and what it means in its broadest sense: "Any practice… - News
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…