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In the news: February Digest
…BioRXiv.org, a biology-focused preprint server, almost 2/3 from inception to 2016 were later published in peer-reviewed journals, the majority within 6 months of posting on the server. Upload rates are increasing (2,1000 per month), as are download rates (1.1 million in October 2018!). Preprints with most downloads are more likely to be downloaded in journal with highest impact factor. - News
In the news: September 2018 Digest
…communications? https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/08/28/all-about-open-annotation/ - News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…href="http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2018/04/11/1078-0432.CCR-18-0227" target="_blank">http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2018/04/11/1078-0432.CCR-18-0227 The XPhi Replicabilty project will seek to replicate about 40 studies in experimental philosophy to estimate the replicability in this field that has methods similar to social psychology. In… - Case
Author of rejected letter blames global bias against his message and undisclosed conflicts of interest
The editor in chief received a letter to the editor criticising a paper published earlier in the journal. The editor first told the author of the letter that he would publish the commentary after he had given the authors of the criticised paper a chance to respond. When asked by the author of the letter, he later added that he would also publish the letter if the authors failed to respond.… - News
In the news: July Digest
…="_blank">https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/ugc-move-to-thwart-pay-and-publish-trash-culture/story-AP0BFFrbNuL1mN5WNbgCjI.html Peer review An experiment on peer review conducted by researchers at Harvard Business School, found that almost 50% of reviewers of medical funding applications changed their own ratings… - News
Case Discussion: Data fabrication in a rejected manuscript
…and reliable system for the peer review of data. Trevor Lane on behalf of the COPE Education Subcommittee Read Common ethical and editorial dilemmas of author misconduct: how should we respond?
…"Evidence of misconduct" "Probably no misconduct" Not applicable 1997 16 11 0 5 1998 33 30 2 1 1999 27 20 3 4 2000 32 26 6…- News
In the news: August 2018 Digest
…="_blank">http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/07/26/open-science-is-all-very-well-but-how-do-you-make-it-fair-in-practice/ Research integrity British universities fail at research integrity self-regulationA report released July 11, 2018 noted that ¼ of UK Universities does not comply with the concordat to support research integrity released in 2012. This concordat tied loss of funding from agencies… - News
In the news: April Digest
…for their office for research integrity and the same number had published at least 1 annual statement by 2018. https://peerj.com/preprints/27622/ A Scientific Integrity Consortium of 4 US and 3 Canadian government agencies, 11 professional societies, 6 universities and 3 nonprofit scientific organizations developed a set of 2 Scientific… - Forum discussion topics
Artificial intelligence (AI) and fake papers
…0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } .embedtool .fluid-vids {position: initial !important} /*-->*/ The rise in the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the writing, creation and complete production of research papers has taken the publishing world… Subcommittees and working groups
…National Centre for Transgender Health) Robyn Speer (Luminoso) Back to top Conference proceedings Established in 2022. Many COPE members publish both journals and books, and wonder what are the similarities and differences with conference proceedings. A number of these members reference…- News
In the news: October 2018 Digest
…pharmaceutical companies that fail to report clinical-trials results only or to register the trials at ClinicalTrials.gov. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06801-7 In a study of the EU guidance to report trial results within a 1-year time frame, investigators found that only 11% of…