Equal Opportunities Policy
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Predatory behaviour in publication ethics
…businesses are sophisticated and adept at evading detection (this would, after all, bring an end to their income). Tools like those under development by the STM Integrity Hub, and crowd-sourced detection like Retraction Watch’s - 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. - News
Case Discussion: Withdrawal of paper at proof stage
…="https://publicationethics.org/case/dual-submission-and-editor%E2%80%99s-failure-take-action">19-06, Dual submission and editor’s failure to take action), the copyright for a paper published in a journal was held by another journal because the authors did not formally withdraw their earlier submission. This case illustrates what might happen if editorial office processes and communications are unclear or inconsistent. The second relevant COPE Core… - News
Allegations of Misconduct webinar summary, April 2019
…the published record. COPE recommends against banning authors from future submission due to potential legal ramifications. COPE members are encouraged to look at the COPE flowchart on “What to do if you suspect plagiarism”. As an example of in a case of egregious plagiarism, Case 12-26 Reprimanded author plagiarises… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 2: COPE commentary
…href="https://publicationethics.org/resources/forum-discussions/artificial-intelligence-fake-paper"> Forum on AI, this time focusing on fake papers. The launch of ChatGPT 3 in November 2022 (and version 4 in March 2023) led to a huge surge in publicity and mainstream usage, and in February the COPE Officers issued a position statement which stated that AI should not be cited as an author in scholarly… - News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…in a top 10 economics department is 26% higher for faculty with an A-surname than a Z-surname! He argues that authors should insist on a contributorship model to determine order or a random order if people contributed equally. Subcommittees and working groups
…National Centre for Transgender Health) Robyn Speer (Luminoso) Back to top Conference proceedings Established in 2022. Many COPE members publish both journals and books, and wonder what are the similarities and differences with conference proceedings. A number of these members reference…- 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