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Seminar 2021: Trustworthy AI for the future of publishing
…for the human mind, to enhance efficiency and accuracy in processing, and to remove or minimise the potential of personal biases. Marie gave examples of editorial checks which incorporate AI, such as plagiarism/text similarity checking, data falsification, image manipulation, language and image quality, citation relevance, adherence to journal scope, subject area relevance and impact, and… - News
Diversity, equity, inclusivity and accessibility: COPE commentary
…established a COPE subcommittee on DEIA. It aims to develop COPE’s approach in DEIA, especially in support of individuals and groups who experience systematic discrimination or who have been historically marginalised. It also pushes for improved policies and procedures, aiming to ensure that COPE drives the conversation in DEIA… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 2: COPE commentary
…training data. For publishers and research institutions, however, these new capabilities have only complicated the picture further, making paper mills, image manipulation, and fabrication ever more sophisticated and ever harder to detect. The accessibility of these tools gives AI the potential to enhance the capabilities of those working in publication ethics, at the same time as posing an existential… - Case
Attempt to supress legitimate scientific results
…in the analysis or submission of the paper? This would also help define the roles of the authors and funders. The authors are the researchers and should be in control of the data. There should not be any pressure from the funding source to try to manipulate the analysis or interpretation of the results or to influence the decision on where to submit the paper for publication. Both parties need to… - News
In the news: February Digest
…target="_blank">http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/30/217/full/ The co-founders of Retraction Watch, Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky, put the rise of retractions from 2000 to just a few years ago, when they seemed to plateau into some context. About half of retractions involved misconduct or fraud. Those willing to cheat the scientific system have more tools to manipulate images, statistics but so do those trying to avert printing fraudulent work. They… - Forum discussion topics
Dealing with complaints about the integrity of published research
…consider the seriousness of the complaint rather than how long ago the article was published. A paper will image manipulation published 10-15 years ago, for example, would be considered high priority. Editors should also prioritise on the type of paper (research articles having a higher priority). How should harassment be defined? Complainants often bombard journals with emails while they are… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2022: Relationship between universities and publishers
…publishing ethics, such as authorship disputes, data sharing issues, plagiarism, image manipulation among many others. Sabina also provides example of the practical obstacles and issues journals contend with in trying to resolve ethics cases, where responsibilities lie ion making decisions, thresholds of evidence requirements, mutual support for decisions and actions, and the ambiguity of… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2020: Understanding text recycling
…practical dimensions— our work currently is focused on helping sort out things in STEM fields and to develop useful guidelines and policy documents there. 5. For systematic reviews and meta-analyses it is inevitable that in order to describe the studies in the reviews, we have to describe verbatim the approach used in the analysis. This is important where the research design, methods of… - News
In the news: February 2018 Digest
…January 15, 2018 that stated that “the systematic replication of other researchers’ work should be a normal part of science." The academy called for funding agencies, researchers, and research institutions to work together to facilitate replication studies. With this statement, the Netherlands joins other international efforts, including in the US and Great Britain, calling for ways to improve… Common ethical and editorial dilemmas of author misconduct: how should we respond?
…acceptable to report mortality data in one paper and disability data in another? That's a matter of clinical judgement. But there are studies where hard outcome data are important for a general readership, but some sort of sub-study on markers would be more relevant to a specialised readership. Does it matter? It does if there is a great deal of overlap, because systematic…- News
In the news: April Digest
…reliable and reduce reviewer work load by using the Publons Reviewer Availability feature as well. https://clarivate.com/blog/news/publons-partners-with-hindawi-limited-to-improve-and-speed-up-the-peer-review-process/ A systematic view of… - News
Case discussion: self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing
…requires correction (eg, through quoting/paraphrasing and citation of the earlier data). Citation and avoidance of redundancy are especially important to reduce bias in future systematic reviews and meta-analyses. In a different COPE Forum case (05-07 salami publication), the Forum… - News
In the news: May 2020
…publications show that 65% result from misconduct, with plagiarism the most common type. Authorship and peer-review manipulation also contribute. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32072484# Data Sharing In an effort to increase data sharing, BMJ Open did a randomised controlled trial offering… - News
In the news: December Digest
…://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/825026v1 In response to serious research integrity issues at a German biologic institute, leadership made several steps to restore their reputation. One was to hire a company to provide outside vetting of every paper and doctoral thesis for screening for errant statistic and manipulated images before publishing. This paper explores this issue of outside vetting, the benefits as… - Guidelines
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
…href="https://publicationethics.org/postpublication">corrections and retractions. Editors and publishers are responsible for ensuring the integrity of the scholarly literature in their journals and should ensure they outline their policies and procedures for handling such issues when they arise. These issues include plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. Neither the journal’s policies nor the… Seminars
…Presentations at the 2011 European Seminar (Download PDF [31 kb] of the seminar programme) 18 March 2011, Woburn House, Tavistock Square, London, UK Systematic review of authorship research across research disciplines – Presented by Ana Marusic, Croatian Medical Journal (- Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2021: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/caroline-porter">Caroline Porter, COPE Trustee and Executive Publisher at SAGE Publishing, examined issues around historical offensive content and the damage that it perpetuates, and how to mitigate it. Caroline highlighted the key themes of challenges, in the scale of the problem, defining what is offensive or inappropriate, identifying the offensive content and creating systematic solutions to catching all… Subcommittees and working groups
…2021 in response to an approach from some of COPE’s publisher members who felt in need of guidance on this issue. Following a Forum discussion topic on paper mills it has produced a research report on paper…