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Editor as author in own journal
This journal specialises in one form of treatment. It is the only Medline listed journal that is widely accessed in Europe by people who use this form of treatment. No international journals provide a suitable alternative. In the USA, the one journal most similar to this is much less specialised and hardly ever accessed in Europe. The journal editor is a leading researcher in this form… - Discussion documents
How should editors respond to plagiarism? April 2011
…Contents Aims and scope Background Introduction Types of plagiarism 2.1 Extent 2.2 Originality of copied material 2.3 Position / context 2.4 Referencing / attribution 2.5 Intention 2.6 Author seniority 2.7 Language Detecting and responding to plagiarism Screening for plagiarism Defining… - Case
Should stockholders of a pharmaceutical industry declare conflicts of interest in a research paper?
…such guidelines. Both of the US Preventive Services Taskforce and the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence also have moved beyond a simple declaration of interest in these guidelines on managing conflicts of interest . Questions for COPE Council What is the… - Event
COPE North American seminar
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COPE Forum: 3 February 2017 4pm (GMT)
…as soon as possible as the webinar is limited to 100 attendees. Deadline to register: Thursday 2 February Register 4pm Forum 4 - 5.30pm GMT The agenda with cases to be discussed will be posted here before the Forum. (Unfortunately we have had to cancel… - News
Case discussion: gift authorship
…capacity. Journals need to clearly define authorship criteria and authors should declare their contributions, for example, according to the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system. A matrix chart could display contributions of multiple authors, as proposed in 2019 by Nick Steinmetz; the… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: June 2022
…href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01604-3">diversity, equity, and fairness in global collaborations, which will be released soon. It was wonderful that the meeting took place in Africa for the first time, and we were able to hear from those directly impacted by historic inequities in financial and scientific resources. As COPE Chair, I moderated a symposium panel on “When and how to report misconduct to institutions, journals,… FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
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Author withdraws manuscript upon payment request
…possible.' The mention of open access APC fee payment after acceptance could be stated upfront in the aims and scope on the homepage, such as in BMJ Open: 'BMJ Open is an online, open access journal, dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas. .... Authors are asked to pay article-publishing charges on acceptance; the… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical practice in research data publication - challenges, lessons and opportunities
… Over the past decade, we have seen a marked increase in the publication of research data, driven by journal, funder, and institutional policies. This has brought ethical challenges specific to datasets, which can affect the journal publication related to the… - Forum discussion topics
Claiming institutional affiliations
…100%; height: 100%; } .embedtool .fluid-vids {position: initial !important} /*-->*/ Standards and guidance on "institutional authorship" Authorship is the currency of research and academia. But what about author affiliations? Research… - Case
Sanctions for citation cartels?
Multiple journals appear to be affected by a citation cartel between a group of researchers across three universities, via the medium of special issues. All articles within the issues contain a high proportion of citations to the same researchers at the three universities, many as high as 100%. Looking at the pattern of citations to these researchers' work, they have only ever been cited in the… - Case
Re-publication of peer reviewed articles as translations
Journal A is planning on publishing translations of some of their articles, either in the publisher's national journal or in a web publication as popularized versions. Both are diamond open access journals which are indexed by DOAJ. One publishes in English, the other in two other languages. Questions for COPE Council What would be good ethical practice for this? - Case
Guest editors for single articles
A COPE member has noted instances of journals contacting individuals - who are not on their editorial board - to request that they act as guest editor for a single manuscript. The invitation makes it clear that they are being asked to recruit reviewers and to make the editorial decision. This practice includes instances where the invitee has had no prior contact with the journal. C… - News
Case discussion: critiques after publication
…Is there a time limit for submitting a critique of a published article? Case Summary Time limit on critiques? case 22-02 A journal received a letter raising concerns about a study that had been published a year earlier. An independent… - News
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…- 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… Membership subscription fees
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