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Seminar 2021: Ethical practice in research data publication - challenges, lessons and opportunities
…-cir.png" style="margin: 3px 10px; float: left; width: 90px; height: 90px;" />Joerg Heber Research Integrity Officer, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory spoke from an institutional perspective, detailing universities roles in providing continuous education around research integrity and data sharing, and being a point of contact for dealing with issues and problems. He also spoke about the capacity of… - News
In the news: February 2018 Digest
…would be associated with higher rates of this behavior. One journal used badges and the other did not. The rate of data sharing, but not code sharing, was higher in the journal that awarded badges. While the results were only modest, the authors suggest that this is a reasonable, low cost way of incentivizing code and data sharing. - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Reducing the inadvertent spread of retracted science: taxonomy considerations
…retracted science and what we can do about it Jodi Schneider is PI of Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: February 2022
Happy New Year! Or at least Happy Lunar New Year to all. I should also add a happy 25th anniversary to COPE. In 25 years of COPE, we have grown to reach broader and more diverse audiences who have an impact on integrity in research and its publication, and this year we will introduce universities and research institutes to the fold. Over the coming months, we will be reaching out… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Keynote address
…have been taking place in universities and scholarly publishing for the past 40 years and the similar pressures which each industry is having to deal with globally. The unique historical features that keep each role separate and distinct will be discussed, and the current critical requirements that are necessary for the continued success of both scholarly research and its publication will be… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Driving diversity, equity, and inclusion to shape the future of publication ethics
…integral to publication ethics. Many journals are now seeking to make improvements in this area and to play a role in overcoming systemic barriers that face scholars from historically marginalised groups. This webinar is intended to give participants an opportunity to learn about tangible actions to improve diversity and inclusion, and to explore how these actions might be implemented. This is one of - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Introduction to publication ethics
…article in another journal. The case is further complicated by some of the co-authors being editorial board members on the new journal. Back to top Case 3: peer review 'ring' Ana presents the third case of a ‘peer review ring’ where author-suggested reviewers seem highly suspicious, do not have institutional email addresses, and cannot be found online. The… - News
COPE at Sense about Science workshop. Peer review: the nuts and bolts
…="https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/cope-ethical-guidelines-peer-reviewers">ethical issues. “Peer review is amazing” Sam Illingworth Sam Illingworth (Senior Lecturer in Science Communication, Manchester Metropolitan University) explained his own experiences of peer review, and although there are frustrations, peer review can be an amazing, positive experience helping researchers… - Case
Author cannot be located
…on multiple occasions, but no response was received. The manuscript is ready to be published, but the journal is unable to locate one of the authors of the manuscript to sign the publication form. If a coauthor cannot be located to sign the publication forms, it seems they cannot affirm that they accept the responsibilities as well as the rights of authorship. Question for COPE… - Case
Previous publication cannot be verified
…publication policies, but it appears the publications department was disbanded and all employees have left. The publisher has also tried to contact the authors of the paper published in their journal, but their email addresses bounce back. Question for COPE Council What would be the appropriate course of action here? The publisher has been unable to verify if the original paper… - 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… - Case
Failing to get consent from an ethics committee
This case was described to me by an author who is about to submit a paper. He has discovered that a member of his team has produced a lot of fraudulent data for other studies, and has forged consent from ethics committees. This researcher has been reported to the GMC and his case is pending. The problem with the paper about to be submitted to us is that the fraudulent researcher falsely… - Case
Can a scientific paper be published anonymously?
The assumption is that everything should be signed and there is no adequate reason for anonymisation. Writing a paper is like signing a cheque and the authors must be prepared to take the responsibility. The laboratories concerned could be anonymised. The distinction is that this is a scientific paper and the authors have to be prepared to stand by what they report and therefore they must sign… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 4 September 2013: Sharing of information among editors-in-chief regarding possible misconduct
…">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/13652044/homepage/editorial_policies.htm). Discussions with publishers suggest that such sharing of information risks accusations and/or legal claims of defamation, since submissions should be handled confidentially – even though the journals concerned might carry a statement on their website saying that manuscripts and related documents may be shared if that's considered necessary to… - 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… - 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. … - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: April 2022
The world has been left reeling following Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine. As a community of publishers, journal editors, and human beings, we are appalled and horrified by the violence we see in Ukraine and we support an immediate end to this conflict. Many publishers and journals have made clear statements and… - Case
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.…