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Seminar 2021: Trustworthy AI for the future of publishing
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Artificial intelligence: Lightning talk summary
…New tools and directions in AI for scholarly publishing January 2024 Lightning talk In the first of our new Lightning Talks Marie Soulière and Nishchay Shah spoke about new tools and directions in AI for scholarly publishing.… - Forum discussion topics
Ethical considerations around watchlists
…href="https://cabells.com/solutions/predatory-reports">Cabell’s Predatory Reports are the latest iteration, but as a paid-for service they engage in deeper evaluation of journals and are transparent about the criteria they use. Now, the increasing scale of systematic manipulation is leading to more calls for information sharing to protect the published record. Benefits and potential risks Watchlists of individuals… - News
Case discussion: Possible breach of reviewer confidentiality
…review and publish signed reviews on public platforms (eg, those based on the F1000Research post-publication review model), peer review is usually a closed and confidential process. Confidentiality needs to be understood and maintained by both authors and reviewers. The manuscript under review, journal correspondence, and peer review reports… - News
Authorship, a blunt tool: "20 Jahre Research Integrity in Deutschland Was hat sich verändert? Wie geht es weiter?"
…enough tool for the job some people use it for: recognizing and rewarding research efforts. We explored the not-yet-widely-adopted contributorship model (where authors provide a short explanation of who contributed what), alongside narrative “soft” approaches to enabling this (like those used by The… - News
Complaints and appeals
…upcoming COPE Forum and more. Read April 2018 Digest: Complaints and Appeals… - News
Research Integrity, Sixth Report of Session 2017-19 from the House of Commons
…would be assured by establishing an oversight committee with responsibility for verifying that research institutions have followed appropriate methods to investigate research misconduct and report annually on compliance, according to Norman Lamb, MP and Chair of the… - News
Post-publication discussions and corrections focus
…--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read November Digest: Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections. This issue of Digest announces new resources What to do if you Suspect Image Manipulation in a Published… - Webform
COPE integrity workshop 2021
…Facilitation and Integrity at COPE: prevention, education and best practices in publication ethics 21 April 2021, online workshop, COPE members only 16:00-17:30 British Summer Time (UTC + 1) Find out what time this is in your country - Case
Removing a retracted article from a third party site
…individuals behind the website and their individual contact details, or to find the host site. Rocket reach can be useful for finding email addresses and telephone numbers. Another suggestion was to contact the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) to get help in removing the content from the third party website. Is there… - News
Case discussion: critiques after publication
…href="https://publicationethics.org/node/34586">Responding to whistleblowers when concerns are raised directly” and “Responding to whistleblowers when concerns are raised via social media”. Although not strictly social media, the PubPeer platform has a paid dashboard service to notify journal administrators of journal mentions. Whether and how… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum: 13 November 2017: Self-Citation: where's the line?
…“appropriate” vs. “excessive”? Are there, or should there be rules about changing reference lists during revision, in particular in adding more self-citations if not specifically requested by the editors/reviewers? References - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: February 2019
…providing new publishing ethics resources, including resources designed specifically for ethical issues which are found only in these areas. Be there! Goodbye, to a good friend We’d like to share fond and warm farewell with Liz Wager, flowchart magician, cat/poetry lover, and Chair of COPE between 2009 and 2012. Liz,… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: September 2019
The 16th-20th of September is Peer Review Week, with this year's theme Quality In Peer Review. This is now an anticipated time in the calendar for many of our members around the world and a number of events focus on issues related to peer review and publication ethics and integrity. As a long time editor of journals and books, I know… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Keynote address
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Diversifying editorial boards
…our upcoming interactive DEI workshop, which will feature during the COPE seminar in September. Your feedback indicated a high level of interest in diversifying editorial boards, and as such we wanted to share some initial thoughts here. Why diversify your editorial board? Consensus statement on research misconduct in the UK by COPE and BMJ
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Artificial intelligence and peer review
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Suspicion that signed informed consent forms are forged
…href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36044262/">recent review by PubMed on publishing photographs in medical journals which highlights some of the problems with this, and Sections 4.2.11 and 5.8.3 of the AMA Manual of Style). Overall, however, it seems more appropriate to reject the paper due to concerns about the validity of the consent forms and to inform the authors of the reason… - News
Open retractions data: podcast
… Summary Describe the new partnership between the two nonprofit groups and tell us how it came about? Crossref acquired Retraction Watch's database of article retractions, aligning with their shared mission. The partnership means Crossref…