- Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical practice in research data publication - challenges, lessons and opportunities
… Over the past decade, we have seen a marked increase in the publication of research data, driven by journal, funder, and institutional policies. This has brought ethical challenges specific to datasets, which can affect the journal publication related to the… - News
In the news: June 2021
…ethics and integrity breaches in research. This study explores what virtues mean in scientific practice, and the role they can take in Ethics and Research Integrity Training. Another study analysed the… - News
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COPE now has its own Facebook page as well as a Twitter account. Click on the links to follow us: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/COPE-Committee-on-Publication-Ethics/107658079276587 Twitter: - News
COPE Forum: 30 April 2018
Register for the COPE Forum that will take place on Monday 30 April from 4-5.30pm (BST). We begin with a discussion on… - Event
ISMPP webinar: Coronavirus (COVID-19), its impact on publication planning
Free Webinar on COVID-19 and Publication Planning! ISMPP invites COPE members to attend a special 90-minute ISMPP U educational webinar - Coronavirus (COVID-19): Its Impact on Publication Planning - on Wednesday, April 29, at 11 am EDT/4 pm in the UK. This informative and complimentary ISMPP U is open to all! FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…discussed. Publishers, including PLOS and the BMJ Publishing Group, that have implemented data sharing requirements have found that it is not trivial to do. A recent post on the Scholarly Kitchen (- Research
CrossCheck guidance: an analysis of typical cases of plagiarism in different disciplines 2010
…Jia XY, Lin HF, Tan XF. Editorial: Be careful! Avoiding duplication: a case study. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B (Biomedicine & Biotechnology) 2013;14(4):355–358. doi:10.1631/jzus.B1300078 4. Jia XY, Tan XF, Zhang YH. Replication of the methods section in biosciences papers: is it plagiarism? Scientometrics 2013. doi 10.1007/s11192-013-1033-5 - Event
INANE Annual Conference 2015
The INANE (International Academy of Nursing Journal Editors) annual conference is being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 3-5, 2015. In addition to the conference, COPE council members Charon Pierson and Geri Pearson will be leading a COPE Forum. For more… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 11 September 2012: Publishing offensive material
The topic for discussion at this Forum was ‘Publishing offensive material’. Specifically, what constitutes bad taste, indecency or obscenity? How do you deal with expletives (as part of interviews or transcripts)? Where is the line between censorship and freedom of expression? - News
In the news: March 2018 Digest
…target="_blank">http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/02/26/1715374115 Conflicts of interest This article on COI in peer review concludes that journals should develop COI policies for reviewers and editors, as well as for authors - Translated resources
COPE同行评审专家道德指南
…this guidance visit https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.9 Related resources Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers (English) Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers (Spanish)… - News
In the news: November 2020
…href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-020-03631-1" target="_blank">case study of a single paper retracted in 2008, 3 years after it's publication, the authors used network analysis, citation context analysis and retraction status visibility analysis and found 148 direct citations from 2006-2019 and 2542 second-generation citations. The retraction was not mentioned in… - News
What to do if you suspect systematic manipulation of the publication process
…affecting the publishing industry. This editorial describes what it is, why it is difficult for individual journal editors and publishers to handle and the background to the development of the new - News
In the news: May & June 2022
The news includes articles on peer review's role in uncovering scientific fraud, the data publishing ecosystem, the definitions of academic misconduct, identifying fake research, and more. The news is gathered by COPE Council members. Research integrity Definitions of academic misconduct should be… - News
Data Sharing Policies in Scholarly Publications: Interdisciplinary Comparisons
Download pdf of poster COPE-funded research, presented as an abstract at the Peer Review Congress, 10-12 September 2017, Chicago. We are follow up this COPE funded research by producing a discussion document on the issues surrounding data sharing policies and this is expected… - News
In the news: February Digest
…serverhttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08838-6 Proposal of the S-score for measuring the performance of researchers, institutions, and journals in Indonesia - News
In the news: May 2018 Digest
…African researchhttps://blog.aasopenresearch.org/2018/04/18/putting-african-researchers-at-the-centre-of-the-publication-process/