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Letter from the COPE Chair: September 2022
Welcome to our annual edition of Digest celebrating Peer Review Week (19-23 September). This year’s theme is “Research Integrity: Creating and supporting trust in research”. As part of Peer Review Week, COPE is hosting a webinar on managing paper… - Case
Comments linked to retracted papers
…used for editorials and published letters that mention the paper in passing but have a wider, still valid message. This issue was discussed by Retraction Watch in 2016, in a post in which members of the board of the Center For Scientific Integrity (RW's parent organisation) - Case
Editor as author
…years. Patients as authors is becoming a standard in medicine as can be seen in this discussion. The BMJ Publishing Group has a campaign for patient-partnership. The editor should… - Case
Author accused of sexual harassment
…="https://web.archive.org/web/20211105032210/https://retractionwatch.com/2021/08/04/should-journals-retract-when-an-author-is-sent-to-prison-for-a-crime-unrelated-to-their-work/">similar issue on Retraction Watch: Discussions on how to handle this and similar cases touch on the frequent lack of definite evidence or the fact that formal cases may still be open or being appealed. Those accused, whether formally or informally, may… - Seminars and webinars
Introduction to publication ethics and the COPE ethics toolkit
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Ethical concerns in research on urbanisation: perspectives from the Global South
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Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
…copyright terms for published content should be clearly stated on the website and in the content. The copyright terms should be separate and distinct from the copyright of the website. The copyright holder should be named on the full text of all published articles (HTML and PDF). If the copyright terms are described in a separate form, this should be easy to find on the website… - Seminars and webinars
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.… - Case
Wrong article abstract published: corrigendum or retraction and republication?
…made, and it did not involve misconduct/fraud or affect the validity of the actual findings. This appears to be a simple mix-up, although it shows the need for careful version comparison during production and proofreading. In the case of e-first publication, there is a window of opportunity to make corrections, so if the journal can, they might replace the abstract in the HTML and PDF… - 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… - 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…