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Uncertain treatment of four patients following previous published experiments
…patients with high blood cholesterol,including the familial form,and had found that oral administration of a choline and ascorbic acid mixture would lower the blood level more successfully than did clofibrate...the blood level of cholesterol would initially rise before it eventually fell, suggesting that cholesterol was being mobilised from the tissues into the blood stream prior to excretion.… - Seminars and webinars
China Seminar 2017: Identifying authorship: how hard can it be?
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False memory syndrome
A doctor has submitted an account of how his daughter falsely accused him of having abused her as a child. His daughter is another British doctor. We would like to publish the account as part of a package of articles on false memory syndrome. The questions we are considering are: (1) Can it ever be right to publish something that describes the intimacies of a family conflict, to illustrate… - Case
The author who wasn’t an author
A paper was submitted crediting three authors. The paper was sent to one of the journal’s regular statistical reviewers without noticing that she happened to be the second author. She wrote back to say that she had not been involved in writing the manuscript, nor had she seen this paper before. She did say, however, that she had supervised the computer input of the questionnaire data and that… - News
Revised Good Publication Practice guidelines published
The newest revision of the Good Publication Practice” (GPP) guidelines is now freely available (free account registration may be required). The revised guidelines, called GPP 2022, were published on 30 August 2022 in the Annals of Internal Medicine and are the fourth version of GPP, first published in 2003. The GPP… - Event
COPE Forum: Thursday 1 August 2019
The next COPE Forum will be a face to face meeting at the INANE Conference in Topaz Ballroom 2, The Reno Renaissance Hotel in Reno, Nevada, USA. it will run from 2.15pm to 5pm (Pacific Daylight Time). - News
Applicants now being sought for the COPE International Advisory Board
COPE is pleased to announce that applications are now being sought for the COPE international advisory board. This has been established to enable us to gain an understanding of the ethical issues and concerns facing individual countries and regions. A local point of contact will be appointed to advise and assist COPE in its work to support editors and publishers of peer-reviewed journals in… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: June 2018
…href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.92.7.1079" target="_blank">paper published in 2002, London noted that the system tends to be driven by a concern about procedural correctness rather than a substantive approach to ethical reasoning. These drivers can be applicable in the world of publication ethics. Is this concern for procedural correctness a barrier to ethical oversight or an excuse for not applying ethical reasoning to activities… COPE webinar: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…COPE Past-Chair and Trustee, lead on the diversity and inclusivity discussion document. Deborah will introduce some of the issues that will be examined in more depth in a new discussion document on “Diversity and inclusivity”.- Case
Publishing complications and patient safety
…which is attended by a small audience of around 120 doctors at which participants present their complication cases. At this meeting, many basic complications are discussed, which can be related to lack of education, lack of knowledge of materials, lack of knowledge about patient disease, or insufficient training, some of which have devastating outcomes. Many of these complications are avoidable. - Case
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… - Event
Neicon 7th International Scientific and Practical Conference
Behrooz Astaneh, COPE Council member, is speaking at this conference titled "2018: Editorial Policy, Open Access, Scientific Communications". - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2015:Altmetrics in practice: where are they being used
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Can two DOIs be assigned to the same manuscript?
A preprint server owned by a commercial publishing company posted a paper and assigned a DOI to the preprint. The manuscript was then submitted to peer reviewed journal X, owned by a different publisher. Assuming acceptance at the journal, can the article be published under a different DOI belonging to journal X? At journal X, Crossref registration is automatic. However, can two…