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Ethical considerations around watchlists
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Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: April 2019
…What we’ve learned: Reflections at the end of our term as COPE Co-Chairs Image credit: CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated Jerry Segraves-jerrysfoto.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue-reflect.jpg We often reflect… - News
Building an international register of ongoing systematic reviews: have your say
…published in The Lancet. In order to arrive at an internationally agreed minimum data… - Event
COPE Forum: 3 August 2016
The August COPE Forum, where we discuss cases submitted by members, is a face to face meeting in London at the International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE) Nurses Conference. This will be held at the Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London. Register for the Forum - Webform
COPE Asia-Pacific Workshop, Melbourne 2020
…href="https://www.jasperhotel.com.au/" target="_blank">Jasper Hotel, 489 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Australia. Registration Please register for the workshop by completing the form below (unless you are also attending the ISMTE Conference - see below for details). The workshop is free for COPE members and ISMTE members. Registration will close on 1 September 2020. ISMTE… - Case
Arm twisting an editor
A paper was accepted, pending a revised version, which made use of official government information on reported health reactions in a particular age group over a 20 year period. Two of the authors were academics and two worked for the government’s health department. When the revision arrived, the names of the latter two authors were missing. One of them explained that they could not reach agreem… - Case
Paper published that is a verbatim copy of another published one by another author
This is a report of two cases of possible misconduct by the same author(s): one that was identified during the review process and one only after it was published. We believe the author tried to publish a paper that was a verbatim copy of one that had appeared in another journal a few years earlier. A vigilant reviewer of the “copied” paper alerted the editor that, on verifying t… - Case
HIV homeopathy
The authors carried out a study. A homeopathic treatment was given to people with HIV/AIDs. The outcome was quality of life, as measured by a questionnaire after 1 month and 18 months of treatment. Participants were selected for inclusion if they had a HIV seropositive status at the time of study and were not taking any other kind of HIV/AIDs treatment. The participants were stratified i… - Case
The ethics of using privileged information
A paper published in one of our journals (paper A) provoked the submission of a correspondence article claiming that a minor conclusion of the paper was a misinterpretation and erroneous. The point in contention was a question of zoomorphology and our paper’s conclusions were based on analysis using a non-invasive technique while the rebuttal relied on more traditional techniques. We are bringi… - Case
Self plagiarism
On initial assessment of a submitted review paper with a single author, the editor checked some of the references to the author’s own work that were cited in the paper. The author mentioned in the covering letter that he had written extensively on some of the specific themes of the paper, as the references made clear, but he claimed that the paper was an original synthesis of the material.… - Case
Revoked parental consent
Our journal publishes case reports describing the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of unusual cases. Parents must provide written informed consent prior to manuscript submission. No cases are presented with unique identifiers and each is anonymised as much as possible. A manuscript was submitted with written consent that was accepted for publication and assigned to an issue. Just befo… - Case
Author requests permission to publish review comments
…reviews and a commentary on the issues raised, prior to submission to a journal with open peer review. The author requested the journal’s consent for the review comments to be made public under CC licence. We declined permission to publish the reviews and explained that the journal operates a confidential single blind review process. Reviewers are informed that their names will not be revealed to… - News
WCRI 2019: Predatory publishing plenary
…articles, many subscription journals also charge authors fees, and hijacked journals can present as subscription journals. Tweets about the session can be seen at - Case
Ethical concerns about a study involving human subjects
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Seminar 2021: How do publication ethics practices for journals apply to book publishing?
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Inclusive language: policing or progressive?
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Citations: Link, Locate, Discover, Connect
…Factor denominator.” Learned Publishing 24: 133-137. https://doi.org/10.1087/20110208 [4] http://ipscience-help.thomsonreuters.com/incitesLiveJCR/10667-TRS.html The JIF for 2017 is calculated as the ratio… FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…editors/reviewers? The Forum is open to COPE members who need to register by Friday 10 November. Comments on this discussion are open to all below: This will be discussed at the next COPE Forum on Monday 13 November 2017. Please do leave any comments below, whether or not you are planning on joining the…History and context of the COPE guidelines
…Practice (PDF, 112 KB) in the Annual Report of 1999. Original Code of Conduct in 2004 In 2004, Richard Smith, then Chair of COPE and Editor of the BMJ, with Pritpal Tamber and Jeremy Theobald, drafted a Code of Conduct for Editors. The Code of Conduct built on the Guidelines on Good…- Discussion documents
Who 'owns' peer reviews? September 2017
…owns peer reviews?" in this 2017 podcast. Related resources Editing peer reviews guidelines