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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… - Case
Request to withdraw as an author of an accepted but unpublished paper
Last March we accepted a paper written by a post-doctoral fellow (PD) and an assistant professor (AP). The work was done by PD in AP's laboratory; PD has now moved on (to another country, in fact). Soon after the manuscript was sent to production, AP sent an email asking to delay production of the manuscript because AP was worried that there may be an ‘error’ in the manuscript that might requir… - News
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, ( - Case
Ethical conduct of qualitative research studies
…-evaluations">COPE’s guidance for editors on dealing with research audits and service evaluations may be useful. Related resources BMJ Quality and Safety policy - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: May 2019
…href="https://publicationethics.org/events/cope-european-seminar-2019">COPE European seminar in Leiden, the Netherlands. We will announce the focus of the seminar in our next Digest newsletter. This will be followed by a meeting of our Council and Board who will be developing our strategic plan for the next three years, which we will be happy to share with you. Warm regards til next month, - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: March 2020
…trainer sessions. Stay tuned on this one and we will provide updates as we develop these tools as part of our initiative to facilitate membership of COPE for universities. Best regards, COPE Chair - News
Allegations of Misconduct webinar summary, April 2019
…Allegations of Misconduct COPE Webinar 12 April, 2019 Watch and listen again to the recording of our Allegations of Misconduct webinar: - News
Case Discussion: Possible plagiarism
…degree thesis/dissertation (which is counted as unpublished). As outlined in the COPE Discussion Document on Best Practice for Issues around Theses Publishing, this is an accepted practice especially in the arts and humanities, but… - Seminars and webinars
Image manipulation
… Back to top Image fraud, beautification, and genuine errors Rapid changes in technology in… United2Act launches action against paper mills
…href="https://www.stm-assoc.org/">More information about STM Further information Please contact: Sarah Gillmore, Engagement and Outreach Officer Follow us on Twitter: @C0PE …- Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical authorship versus fraudulent authorship
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Authorship and Contributorship focus: an editor view and research institution view
…://publicationethics.org/resources/seminars/copes-first-webinar-information-shared-discussion-and-practical-advice-common">COPE’s webinar on “Standards in Authorship.” Mark Hooper and colleagues from QUT shared several resources on authorship and publication. In addition, Siu-wai Leung, University of… - Webform
COPE peer review workshop 2020
Registration is now closed as the workshop is full Peer review workshop Thursday 24 September 2020, 4.00pm - 5.15pm (BST), online workshop (COPE Members only) This year's Peer Review Week is dedicated to 'Trust in peer review'. Peer Review…