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COPE Lightning Talk: AI
…intelligence (AI) Joining us to share their expertise are Marie Soulière, Frontiers open access publisher and COPE Council member, and Nishchay Shah, Cactus Communications. Nishchay Shah Nishchay will discuss… COPE team
…To contact any member of the COPE team, please use our contact form. Natalie Ridgeway Executive Officer Natalie joined COPE in…- Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Introduction to publication ethics
…Speakers Michael Wise is a bioinformaticist/computer scientist in the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering … - News
COPE at Wiley research seminar, Japan
…related to open science/research and open data. The research seminar was attended by about 80 senior professionals working in research and/or its global communication in the academic, publishing, corporate, and non-profit sectors. … - Case
Informed consent
A group of researchers are conducting a study of whether women aged 65 to 69 years will accept screening for breast cancer. They plan to invite these women for screening in the same way as they invite younger women for screening but will not know that they are part of a research study. The authors want advice on whether journals would be willing to publish their results, despite the fact that t… - Case
Dual submission
_ Around one in five published papers are republished in substantial form. _ A study in the 80s found that over 10 per cent did not mention previous publication, but a second study at the end of the 90s suggested this figure was around 1%. _ It takes considerable time and effort to look at all the referenced papers to see if there is any overlap and then those are the published ones, not those… - News
New: Chinese resources
…Chinese COPE resources We have new Chinese translations of COPE resources to add to our existing translated material. eLearning module: Introduction to Publication Ethics Guidelines: - Case
Attempted redundant publication?
Seven authors sent us a paper on hospital infections in children. We sent the paper to two reviewers, one of whom sent back a detailed comparison between the paper submitted to us and a paper published in another journal in 1996. The reviewer’s comments were: “Unfortunately, there is strong evidence that the study and its results have been published previously, comments with some further… - Case
The fraudulent letter
A journal published a letter from a student only to discover that it was not written by him. The editor has written to him and his dean apologising, and the journal is publishing a piece saying that the letter was not written by the student. It seems most likely that the piece was written by one of his fellow students. Should we encourage the dean to hold a full investigation? … Letters t… - Flowcharts
Suspected ethical problem in a submitted manuscript
…class="resource-download-inline__container"> Flowchart Suspected ethical problem in a submitted manuscript PDF 97 KB … - Event
Next COPE Forum 6 September 2011
…Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), 5-11 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8SH (http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/how-find-us/how-find-us). All COPE members are welcome to attend the meeting, whether or not they are presenting a case. Download the agenda and materials - Case
Should we have had author consent for a randomised controlled trial of a peer review?
…Conclusion A notice should be added to the Instructions to Authors, to the effect that from time to time their papers may be used in trials of peer review and that this may slightly delay the processing time. In addition, the letter acknowledging receipt of the article might also contain notice (but with a light touch). In both cases, the authors can be given the opportunity to opt out.… - Case
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 a s… COPE webinar: Allegations of misconduct
…src="/files/u1069951/thumb_Susan_Garfinkel_pic.jpg" style="width: 90px; height: 90px; margin: 5px; float: left;" /> Susan Garfinkel, Assistant Vice President for Research Compliance, Ohio State University, Ohio Dr Susan Garfinkel is currently the Assistant Vice President for Research Compliance at the Ohio State University.She serves as the senior coordinator for research misconduct and assists in coordinating…- Event
COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
…/cooperation-between-research-institutions-and-journals-research-integrity">Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases Speakers Susan Garfinkel, Associate… - Event
Open Access and Medical Publishing: ISMPP
ISMPP invites COPE members to attend a special 90-minute ISMPP U educational webinar, Open Access and Medical Publishing, on Wednesday, January 30, at 11 am EST/4 pm in the UK. The webinar is open to all and free to COPE members. Expert speakers representing different stakeholder views – industry (Shire), funder (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), publisher (Wiley and American… - News
A vision for a more trans-inclusive publishing world: guest article
…names per request does not pose any novel indexing challenge, and can and should be seamlessly rectified in this digital age. Back to top Author bios Theresa Jean Tanenbaum (“Tess”) Theresa Tanenbaum is an… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: February 2022
…editorial office that explains expected ethical practices in scholarly publishing and highlights resources to develop codes of ethical conduct and practice, these resources are always good as refreshers for everyone at all levels. So enjoy! - News
Case discussion: Editing peer review comments
…href="https://publicationethics.org/events/cope-forum-friday-6-march-2020">COPE Forum on 6 March. With this in mind, we highlight two cases from the COPE archive: Case 97-08 likely predated the online editorial management systems that allow confidential comments for the editor to be separated from their comments for the author. The submitter of the case… - Case
Publishing complications and patient safety
…environment in the country of origin, including regulations on informed consent. As there are 120 cases, are there also 120 authors? If there are many authors, it may be easy to anonymise the cases, especially if the authors could be added in alphabetical order to help disguise identities. Otherwise, it is difficult to anonymise the data and retain essential elements for learning purposes.…