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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 - Seminars and webinars
Post-publication corrections
…misconduct JAMA Network article Handling difficult cases a discussion on PLOS Blog Related COPE resources Dealing with concerns about the integrity of… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: May 2018
…University of Technology (QUT)CaltechOttawa Hospital Research InstituteThe University of Hong Kong The pilot members are exploring whether it might be useful for COPE to bring editors, publishers and representatives… COPE webinar: Allegations of misconduct
…Tara Hoke received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2005. Currently, she is General Counsel for the American Society of Civil Engineers, publisher of 35 peer-reviewed journals in the subject of civil engineering research and practice. Moderator- Case
Authorship order dispute
…You can listen to the podcast of this case from the menu on the right A manuscript has been accepted for publication in our journal and we would like to publish in the March 2011 issue. The corresponding author (Dr F) is trying to collect copyright forms from all of the authors of the paper to send back to us, but one author will not sign the copyright form due to a disagreement about… - 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… - 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. - Forum discussion topics
Dealing with complaints about the integrity of published research
June 2022 Watch the introduction to the topic "Dealing with complaints about the integrity of published research" with COPE Council member, Jigisha Patel. - Webform
COPE peer review workshop, November 2020
…Peer review workshop Thursday 19 November 2020, online workshop 9.00am - 10.30am (GMT) (COPE Members only) REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED AS WORKSHOP IS FULL Following on from the success of our Peer Review Workshop during this year’s Peer Review Week, COPE is re-running… - Case
Identifying patient information published in a figure
A reader emailed a society, which forwarded the message to the journal office, noting that he can read the name of a patient in a figure in a published letter to the editor. The letter was published online 3 months earlier and had just appeared in print; it was the print version the reader saw. The reader asked if the patient's name could be removed. The journal’s author instructions alr… - Guidelines
A short guide to ethical editing for new editors
…class="resource-download-inline__container"> Document A short guide to ethical editing for new editors PDF 577 KB … - Event
COPE Forum: September 2023
…href="https://publicationethics.org/case/author-refusal-sign-ethics-form">Author refusal to sign an ethics form 23-18 Author retracts request to be removed from author list 23-19 Handling undisclosed peer reviewer conflict Cases submitted… - Case
Suspected plagiarism
We had a case of suspected plagiarism recently on one of our journals, on which I would appreciate COPE’s advice. The case has been resolved, so this is not in the least urgent, but I would be interested to hear your views. Very briefly, at review stage the editor spotted substantial similarities between a paper submitted to our journal and a review published recently in a related title.… - Case
Clear case of duplicate publication?
We received an article at our editorial office in April 2008. One of the referees discovered that a similar article had been published in a surgical journal in 2000. In that article, the authors presented data on the haemodynamics and intestinal blood flow in pigs. In the article submitted to us, they presented the same results, but only the first three time points (which had been includ… - Case
Author creates bogus email accounts for proposed reviewers
Recently, as co-editor of my journal, I received a manuscript submitted for publication. The author had recommended two reviewers along with their Gmail accounts and affiliations. I was curious about the affiliation of one of the reviewers. I looked this person up and discovered they had a different email address than that provided by the author. So I usedthe email address that I found to… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: January 2019
…height: 125px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; float: left;" /> Read January 2019 COPE Digest newsletter and use the COPE Audit Tool, read a case discussion on citation manipulation, get dates in the diary for COPE events in 2019, and keep… - 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
Letter from the COPE Chair: May 2021
…in 2019, is being updated to reflect authorship issues in a broad range of subject disciplines, particularly the arts, humanities and the social sciences. More information on its release is coming soon. Coming up on 28 May, our webinar for COPE members is around diversity, equity and inclusion. With COPE… - Case
Inadvertent discovery of salami submission
The journal submitting this case to COPE sent a paper [paper 1] to a reviewer who wrote this in the review: “…That apart, this manuscript seems to be another report of the already published **** trial, looking at the data from a slightly different angle. I am not convinced, however, that the data is worthy of so many submissions.” And, in a separate email to the…