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COPE Forum: 13 November 2017: Self-Citation: where's the line?
A recent post on Scholarly Kitchen [1] raised some interesting points about the ethics surrounding citation, and specifically self-citation. Previously, COPE has discussed related issues surrounding self-citation by journals and editors [2] and citation of preprints [3]. During this forum, we broadened the discussion… - Case
Exposing citation manipulation and fraud in the community
A publisher has identified a ring of three individuals who acted as guest editors for three special issues. These individuals used nine fake accounts to peer review manuscripts. For some manuscripts, the fake identities were used alongside legitimate reviewers, while in other cases they were used exclusively. The publisher has also identified several submissions to those special issues where th… - Case
Data availability for vulnerable populations
A paper on a vulnerable population was published in a journal. The journal followed their usual procedures for processing papers on vulnerable populations, by requesting and reviewing further information on the ethics approval and consent procedures of the study (e.g.: recruitment procedures; blank version of the consent document participants read and signed; the study protocol that was approve… - Case
Reviewer misconduct and its potential impact on an submitted manuscript
Author X raised concerns that confidential information obtained during the peer review of their submission with Journal Y had been misappropriated by one of the reviewers of their submission (reviewer Z). Author X believed that reviewer Z had used this confidential information in order to silently alter code published by reviewer Z with repository R, which contained errors that were high… - 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
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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Welcome new COPE members April-June 2019
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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 - Seminars and webinars
Publication ethics, research integrity and climbing mountains
…allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QCufwG1_r7o?rel=0"> Back to top Keynote address: Publication misconduct and fraud day Those working in scholarly publications currently face many ‘mountains’ or… - News
Research integrity and how to buy a Persian carpet: TOP Guidelines, part 2
…Picture by Garry Knight (Flickr: Persian Carpet) CC BY-SA 2.0 at http://bit.ly/2FKpQCo In “The art of buying a carpet,” Simon Busch suggests that a wise carpet buyer checks a carpet’s knot count (“You will find much truth under the carpet: turn it… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: June 2018
…participate because he wanted his data and was reluctant to consider the broader implications. The clinical director wanted to protect staff and their personal opinions, to keep them separate from the care they provided in the clinic. While this scenario represents a broader and ongoing controversy in ethical oversight, ( - Event
COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
…href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/difference/timezone/utc">Find out what time this is in your country REGISTER TODAY --> For some years, COPE has been discussing the fundamental relationship between publication ethics and research ethics, publication ethics being part of research and research publishing. COPE has recently launched… - Case
Request to withdraw as an author of an accepted but unpublished paper
…specific details regarding the nature of her disagreement with PD. It turns out that it involved two data points (out of 22) in a supplementary analysis. AP and PD could not agree on the value of those data points. The editor then suggested to AP and PD that they re-do the supplementary analysis, based on the 20 scores that were not in dispute; if the pattern reported originally was confirmed in… - Case
Is ethics committee approval necessary for retrospective clinical studies?
A journal received a manuscript on risk factors for a disease, which had no ethics committee approval or dispensation. The clinical data were collected from the electronic and physical histories of the patients during hospitalization. The authors stated that the study was not submitted to an ethics review board because these data are "secondary." In some countries, this type of research will re…