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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
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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… - Forum discussion topics
Bias in peer review
…in response to the kinds of diversity seen as being important in peer review. Two of the fifteen new reply options to this question in the 2021 survey also garnered significant responses, with 67% of respondents indicating that Career Level was important and 63% indicating that Geographic Diversity was important. The importance of Expertise Areas/Specialities decreased by 27% (from 88… - 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 - Event
COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
…href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/difference/timezone/utc">Find out what time this is in your country REGISTER TODAY --> For some years, COPE has been discussing the fundamental relationship between publication ethics and research ethics, publication ethics being part of research and research publishing. COPE has recently launched… Diversity policy
…followed by all. Displaying behaviour and using language which shows sensitivity to other people. Leading with respect and tolerance. Encouraging all employees and volunteers to reflect this same commitment to these principles in their work. 3. Officers and Executive Staff Officers and Executive Staff are responsible…- Case
Concerns regarding image manipulation and inconsistent figure legends
A journal received a complaint from readership about manipulation of images of gels and also of some figures which had been published as part of a thesis with different sample legends. The authors were contacted to provide explanations for the observed inconsistencies. The authors provided full images and then an official expert analysis, but the Editor-in-Chief did not feel that these response… - News
Allegations of Misconduct webinar summary, April 2019
…Allegations of Misconduct COPE Webinar 12 April, 2019 Watch and listen again to the recording of our Allegations of Misconduct webinar: