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Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (Portuguese)
…Transparência e melhores práticas, edição atualizada, Version 4.0, 2022 Transparência e melhores práticas Português - Revisado por Luciano Panepucci, após tradução automática via Documentos Google. Version 4.0, 2022. Edição anterior: Princípios de Transparência e Boas Práticas em… - News
Registry for systematic reviews created
…at http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/projects/register.htm … - News
COPE North American Seminar August 10, 2016 'Ethics in peer review'
COPE is delighted to announce its 7th North American Seminar, which will be held in collaboration with ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), on Wednesday August 10, 2016, at the Hilton Philadelphia City… - News
COPE member survey 2019: we need your feedback
…survey which should take no longer than 10 minutes. Begin the survey We look forward to receiving your feedback and thank you in advance for taking part. With kind regards Deborah Poff COPE Chair Natalie Ridgeway COPE Executive Officer… - News
Research integrity in China
…a shadow hanging over any country's progress, especially a nation that has advanced with spectacular velocity. China is no exception. And the current concern, escalated to the highest levels of the Chinese Government, is research integrity. Read more about research integrity concerns… - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar 2017: Current issues in peer review
…Samantha Hindle, ASAPbio Ambassador Elizabeth Moylan, Senior Editor Research Integrity, Biomed Central and COPE Council Member The webinar was recorded: … - News
Case discussion: Low-risk study with no ethics committee approval
…publishing case reports (outlined in COPE’s Journals’ Best Practices for Ensuring Consent for Publishing Medical Case Reports). Trevor Lane on behalf of the COPE Education… - Case
Blatant example of duplicate publication?
A paper was submitted to one journal on 7 March, revised on 20 May, submitted to another journal on 21 March, revised on 29 May, accepted on 2 July and published in December 1997. The content of both papers is identical but each has different reference styles so were clearly intended for two different journals. The submission letter to the first journal clearly states that the material has not… - Case
Grounds for retraction?
The co-author of a paper has contacted us about a paper he published 5 years ago together with a researcher who has now been convicted of serious professional misconduct by the GMC for research misconduct. The co-author is worried that the paper he co-authored may also be fraudulent. The research was in two parts. The first was analysed by a doctor not convicted of research miscon… - Event
Next COPE Forum 5 March 2012
The next COPE Forum meeting will take place on Monday 5 Mach 2012, 3pm to 5pm. The meeting will take place at The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), 5-11 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8SH (http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/how-find-us/how-find-us). All COPE members are welcome to attend the meeting, whether or… - News
In the news: December 2020
…of compensation for peer review in "The Scientist". She describes some calls for some sort of compensation - monetary, academic acknowledgement, reduction in Article processing fees for University faculty and others as well as obstacles to developing these systems. At… - Event
COPE Asia-Pacific Workshop, Singapore
Following on from the success of previous workshops in Singapore and Beijing, COPE is delighted to announce another half day workshop, in collaboration with ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), on Wednesday 28 March 2018, at the Novotel Singapore Clarke… - News
COPE Forum: 8 August 2018
Submit a case The next COPE Forum will be a face to face meeting at the INANE Conference in Boston on 8 August,1.30-4.30pm. All COPE members are welcome to join this Forum in person, whether or not you are attending INANE. It will follow the… - News
Case discussion: Possible breach of reviewer confidentiality
…peer reviewer pool. Online training resources include the Clarivate Analytics Publons Academy, the ACS Reviewer Lab, and others mentioned in a European Association of Science Editors (EASE) - News
Guest article: Research misconduct
…href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03626-1">decades of vaccine research that had gone before the pandemic. Anyone who has had the vaccine has demonstrated their trust in those decades of research. Of course, the pandemic has also brought to the fore many concerns about scientific integrity. With cases of research misconduct hitting the news… - Case
Registration of a randomised control trial
…be rejected. If the study is registered late, the journal should consider a declaration on the paper about why, and provide a guarantee to the journal that any related papers will be registered Related resources https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2016… - Case
Failing to get consent from an ethics committee
This case was described to me by an author who is about to submit a paper. He has discovered that a member of his team has produced a lot of fraudulent data for other studies, and has forged consent from ethics committees. This researcher has been reported to the GMC and his case is pending. The problem with the paper about to be submitted to us is that the fraudulent researcher falsely claime… - Case
An author plagiarising the work of the reviewer?
An author submitted part of his PhD thesis as a paper. The section editor of the journal asked the PhD supervisor to review the paper. This induced a very heated response from the reviewer who made various claims regarding the paper: The author does not credit one of the tests he uses in his work There is no proper acknowledgement of co-workers who perhaps should have been co-author… - Case
Uncertain treatment of four patients following previous published experiments
A medically qualifed author submitted a paper in which he described the treatment of four cases of “pesticide poisoning presented as ME.”These four cases had doubtful sounding evidence of pesticide poisoning. The author treated them with a mixture of choline and ascorbic acid. He did this because: “Between the years 1968 and 1973 I had carried out a number of unpublished experiments on patie…