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European Seminar 2019: COPE retraction guidelines
…allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KoWtpO5dx28" width="100%"> Presentation by Howard Browman Howard Browman, COPE Council, gives a review of COPE's updated retraction guidelines (PDF) The scientometrics of retracted articles and a publisher's perspective of… - Seminars and webinars
Publication ethics in an open world
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How to get started: COPE resources
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Letter from the COPE Chair: September 2019
The 16th-20th of September is Peer Review Week, with this year's theme Quality In Peer Review. This is now an anticipated time in the calendar for many of our members around the world and a number of events focus on issues related to peer review and publication ethics and integrity. As a long time editor of journals and books, I know… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: May 2018
…Starting the conversation: Outcomes from a research integrity workshop for research institutions, editors and publishers On April 25th members of the Russell Group Integrity Forum met with… - News
Addressing the issues in peer review - LSE Impact Blog post
Post on LSE Impact Blog by Elizabeth Moylan and Charon Pierson "Addressing the issues in peer review - new guidelines available from COPE". - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: August 2019
…European colleagues there. Best wishes, COPE Chair Deborah Poff… - Event
EQUATOR seminar and annual lecture
…Isabelle Boutron, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Iveta Simera (other speakers to be confirmed) Registration fees: £50Contact: Mrs Tracy Edwards ([email protected].uk) More details and registration form on our website: - Case
What happens when there is no local ethics committee?
A paper from Taiwan was reviewed and accepted for publication. However, one of the reviewers raised the question of ethics committee approval. When the editors checked with the authors, they responded that there is no ethics committee at their university and they were therefore not able to seek ethical approval. What is COPE’s view on this? The study was fairly straightforward involving a quest… - News
Letter from COPE Vice-Chair: February 2020
…virus is key to saving lives. Please stay safe, especially our colleagues in areas hit hardest. Best regards, COPE Vice-Chair Daniel Kulp - News
Case discussion: Authors’ contributions and involvement by medical communications company
Case Summary Case 14-07 Authors' contributions and involvement by medical communications company An employee of a medical communications company contacted a journal’s editorial office. For several manuscripts, the employee had helped develop the… - News
All Elsevier journals become COPE members
…Editors will benefit from new partnership 13 February 2008 London, UK. The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is pleased to announce its partnership with Elsevier, publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. More than 2000 journals, the full collection of Health, Sciences and Science… - Event
COPE Forum
…Register for the Forum Preprints: what are the issues? We will be discussing preprint issues at the COPE Forum on 24 July but it will make for a more animated discussion if we could have your comments on the discussion document before the Forum. Members and non-members, please add your… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2019: Retractions, a publisher's perspective
…autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KoWtpO5dx28" width="100%"> Retractions from a publisher's point of view Catriona Fennell, Director of Publishing Services, Elsevier shares the experience of retractions from a publisher's point of view. To hear Catriona… - Seminars and webinars
ISMTE webinar 2020: Transparency in the Publishing Process
…slides. Watch now Related resources Highlighted COPE resources during the presentation were: - What peer review means in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Forum discussion topic June 2020
…href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/" target="_blank">hoax article problem with respect to fake articles on diversity, inclusivity and identity politics also challenged the merit, quality and legitimacy of the scope and standards of some types of journals, including those that publish feminist scholarship. Recently, this issue was raised again with respect to a- Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2021: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…/*-->*/ /*-->*/ Back to top Key points Acknowledging lack of diversity and the continuing challenges facing publishing The session was moderated by - Case
Redundant publication by an editorial board member
A specialist journal received a paper for review. An editorial board member was one of the authors. The paper was sent out for review and one reviewer replied quite favourably. A few days later the reviewer sent the editor a copy of a paper seen in another journal that was very similar to the one under consideration, and by the same authors. It was the same population and the same study, just a… - Case
Prolific authors
…qualify for authorship under the ICMJE guidelines for each article. It has been shown that some infamous cases of fraud were by prolific authors ("High annual publication rates had characterised many of the international research misconduct cases, which had begun to come to light in the mid-1970s" http://www.bmj.com/ cgi/reprint/331/7511/281.pdf; Lock S,…