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Letter from the COPE Chair: July 2019
…Please help us by filling in our survey which should take no longer than 10 minutes. Begin survey. COPE Chair Systematic manipulation of the publishing process via paper mills: Forum discussion topic September 2020
…the publication process are being seen. The production of fraudulent papers at scale via alleged ‘paper mills’ is one such manipulation. Paper mills are profit oriented, unofficial and potentially illegal organisations that produce and sell fraudulent manuscripts that seem to resemble genuine research. They may…- News
Letter from the COPE Chair: September 2021
…legitimate for an editor to modify a reviewer’s comments. It also gives guidance on the level of editing and editing procedure which will support consistent, fair, and transparent editing practices. Peer Review Week, 20–24 September, is upon us once again. This year’s theme is the “multifaceted role of identity in peer review”. I’m sure many of you… - 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… - 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
…/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Back to top Collaborative research agenda Focusing on urban studies… COPE team
…employee of COPE. Alysa Levene Operations Manager Alysa joined COPE in 2022 and is responsible for the operational side of the organisation. Previously she worked as an academic historian and has published on the history of…- Case
Reviewer misconduct and its potential impact on an submitted manuscript
…2, March 2022 Another consideration is Reviewer Z’s behaviour. The journal could consider contacting Reviewer Z’s institution to report the unethical practice, especially since it could be part of a pattern of questionable behaviour. Reviewer Z should arguably have recused themselves from reviewing Author X’s paper in the first place because of a conflict of interest. The Forum heard that… COPE position statements
…ChatGPT, cannot be listed as author of a paper, and their use must be fully transparent. Read the Authorship and AI tools position statement. COPE advice to editors on geopolitical intrusions on editorial decisions (2022) COPE considers that editorial decisions should not be affected by nationality, ethnicity,…- Research
Paper mills research
COPE and STM undertook a study with Maverick Publishing Services in June 2022, using data from publishers, to understand the scale of the problem of paper mills. The study also involved interviewing stakeholders - research investigators, publishers, and Retraction Watch. All stakeholders believe that the issue of paper mills is a real threat to the integrity of the scholarly record.… - Forum discussion topics
Editorial conflicts of interest
March 2022 Watch the introduction to the topic "Editorial conflicts of interest" with COPE Council member, Itamar Ashkenazi. History of COPE
…COPE history timeline View COPE history, a visual timeline in full (PDF, 754 KB) 1997 to 2003 - first COPE meeting and a written…- 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.… Action against paper mills
…="https://publicationethics.org/publication-integrity-week-2023/publication-ethics-research-integrity">Publication misconduct and fraud day: Keynote Publication Integrity Week 2023 Paper mills research report COPE & STM, 2022 How to…- 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… - Case
Plagiarism by a possible predatory journal
An article published in a journal in 2023 appears to have been plagiarised in a possible predatory journal but the publishers are unable to get a response from the predatory journal or affiliated Institute. The article (Article A) was submitted to Journal X in 2022 and published early in 2023. The authors reached out to the Journal after finding that another article dated from 2021… - 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…