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…office updated 2022 Systematic manipulation of the publication process, updated 2022 Addressing concerns about systematic manipulation of the publication process new 2023 Peer… What peer review means in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Forum discussion topic June 2020
…authors 5. Issues of self-plagiarism 6. Difficulties in upholding anonymity to authors and/or reviewers during peer review 7. Recognising and dealing with bias in reviewer comments 8. Assuring fair representation of new voices and diverse perspectives 9. Potential conflict of interest between authors and reviewers 10. Managing complaints and appeals- Event
COPE webinar: Standards in authorship
…-contributors.html Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration and credit http://openscholar.mit.edu/sites/default/files/dept/files/lpub28-2_151-155.pdf Transparency in Authors' Contributions and Responsibilities to Promote Integrity in Scientific Publication - News
International Workshop for Journal Editors, Indonesia
…-publishing">16 Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, the 10 COPE Core Practices, and practical advice on preparing to apply for COPE membership. Other workshop presenters at the event included representatives from Clarivate Analytics, SCOPUS, the… Increasing number of fraudulent papers produced by “paper mills”
…fostering of professional debate in the wider community. COPE’s 10 Core Practices which includes resources such as guidelines, flowcharts and real publication ethics cases, covers many ethical issues to help editors in their day to day work. COPE was established in 1997 by a small group of journal editors and now has over 12,500 members worldwide from all academic fields.…How COPE will respond to a media enquiry
…COPE’s 10 Core Practices, which includes resources such as guidelines, flowcharts and real publication ethics cases, covers many ethical issues to help editors in their day to day work. COPE was established in 1997 by a small group of journal editors and now has over 13,000 members worldwide from all academic fields. COPE is a global organisation with Trustees and Council Members…- Case
Redundant publication
Journal A received letters from two readers pointing out that the female component of a cohort the paper published was identical with that in a paper published in Journal B earlier that year. The two papers were sent to two independent reviewers, one of whom felt that there was a great degree of overlap between the two papers. The other agreed, but suggested that the paper submitted to Journal… - Case
Dual submission
_ Around one in five published papers are republished in substantial form. _ A study in the 80s found that over 10 per cent did not mention previous publication, but a second study at the end of the 90s suggested this figure was around 1%. _ It takes considerable time and effort to look at all the referenced papers to see if there is any overlap and then those are the published ones, not those… - Case
Authorship of a commentary
An associate editor invited a commentary to be written by one of the peer reviewers. When the commentary was submitted, the associate editor was a co-author. There could be the appearance of a conflict in the decision to accept the article on which the commentary was based if the associate editor is an author on the commentary. Question for the Forum - Seminars and webinars
Inclusive language: policing or progressive?
…publishing and inclusive language." Kim Eggleton, IOP Publishing. - News
Tackling the problem of paper mills
…virtual) Academic Publishing Europe Conference. The session, “The Version of Record under Attack! The Dark Side of the Scholarly Publishing Universe”, was chaired by Dr Liz Marchant (Taylor & Francis). The session had presentations from two editors of scholarly journals, Professor Dr Christian Behl and Professor Dr Bernhard Sabel, and from Tim Kersjes, a Research… Cookie policy
…COPE protects any personal information you provide to us. The policy also describes how to get in touch with us if you have any questions or concerns. Related content All COPE policies Page history Last updated 11 April 2022 Back to…- Event
COPE webinar: managing paper mills
…top Related resources Paper mills: authorship for sale COPE Seminar 2021 Systematic manipulation of the publication process, COPE guidance, updated 2022 - Case
Comments linked to retracted papers
A journal has received comments linked to a research paper that later has been retracted. This has led to a debate over whether there should be some notification beyond the link to the actual retracted paper. Questions for COPE Council Should the comments themselves be retracted? What does COPE recommend? What do other journals do? … - Case
Publishing a letter concerning a paper published in another journal many years ago
Recently, Journal X received a letter to the editor based on an article published in another journal about 8 years previously. The editors of Journal X believe this letter is important to their readers. The original article was a seminal paper which changed practice. However, a group of authors challenged some of the data published in this trial in a subsequent review published about 7 ye… - Case
Author accused of sexual harassment
A reviewer for Journal X declined to review a paper as author Y has been the subject of a sexual harassment investigation. Author Y left the institute before the result of the investigation, thereby avoiding the outcome of the case. There is an academic loophole which allows those accused of misconduct to avoid any potential consequences by resigning before the outcome of the investigation, mea… - Case
Can a published journal article be submitted to conferences?
An article is submitted to a journal and accepted for future publication. The authors receive the acceptance letter and the script is waiting for the final publication process (within 4-6 months). During this time the authors ask the journal if they can present the full text of the article at a conference (which is going to be held before the publication by the journal). They also declar… - Flowcharts
Addressing concerns about systematic manipulation of the publication process
…="https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts/systematic-manipulation-publication-process">Systematic manipulation of the publication process flowcharts Managing paper mills COPE seminar, September 2022 How do we deal with the growing problem of paper mill - Translated resources
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…