- Seminars and webinars
Legal issues in corrections, retractions and expressions of concern — Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Elsevier
…Download presentation: Legal issues in corrections, retractions and expressions of concern [PDF, 100KB]… - Event
COPE Forum: Thursday 3 March 2022
…Forum agenda On 3 March 2022 the COPE Forum will be held at 11:00-12:30pm (GMT / UTC) 1. Update on COPE activities by the Chair. 2. Forum discussion topic. We begin the COPE Forum with a discussion on the topic of Editorial conflicts of interest. 3. New… FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…clinical trial data—A proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. New England Journal of Medicine, January 20. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1515172 Vickers A J. (2006). Whose data set is it anyway? Sharing raw data from randomized trials. Trials 7; 15. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-7-15 Wager, E. (2016). Sharing data is a good thing. But we need to consider the…- Case
Duplicate publication
We were made aware of a double publication in our journal dating from 20 years ago. A paper which was originally published in French in another journal the year previously was translated and published in our journal. The editorial paperwork is long lost, however, the principal author is a member of our editorial board. They readily responded and explained that it was not uncommon at that time t… - Case
Stolen data and omission from the authorship list
An author wrote to the editor of a specialist journal, indicating that a paper had been published without appropriate recognition of himself as an author. In his letter he stated that he had contributed more than 50% of the cases reported. The first author had “not only stolen my data and published it without my consent, but also omitted my name. ” The editor has written to the authors of the p… - Case
Potential case of plagiarism
…submitted paper contains numerous full paragraphs identical to those in the previous paper. We also suspect that fraud may be involved. For example, the submitted paper reports data on 28 patients (72% male and 28% female); clinical sign 1 was present in 68%; sign 2 in 26%; sign 3 in 9% and one was asymptomatic. A particular investigation was diagnostic in 45%. In the first paper, 47 infants were… - Case
Ethical approval and fabrication of results
…treatment of 50 patients, and in the past he had peer reviewed two manuscripts by the same authors presenting exactly the same results from the treatment of only 15 patients. When the author was questioned about ethics approval, he said that he had previously gained consent from a specialist research society for his original study of15 patients. But when this manuscript was rejected, he… - Event
International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) Annual Meeting
ISMPP is offering a 10% registration discount to COPE members for its 16th Annual Meeting, The Evolving Role of the Scientific Communications Professional in an Open World, 20-22 April 2020, in Washington, DC. Check out the meeting at www.ismpp.org/annual-meeting, and enter 16AMCOPE in the… RePAIR consensus guidelines
…Responsibilities of Publishers, Agencies, Institutions, and Researchers (RePAIR) in protecting the integrity of the research record The RePAIR Consensus Guidelines emerged from the collaborative effort of a working group from the conference entitled Keeping the Pool Clean: Prevention and Management of Misconduct Related Retractions, held 20-22 July 2016 in Fort Collins,…- News
In the news: March & April 2022
…="https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/process-towards-agreement-reforming-research-assessment-2022-jan-18_en">join a coalition on reforming research assessment. Ethical oversight What does a Director of Research Integrity do? An interview with Sabina Alam of T&F. Clarivate has a 1-hour online course for editors, authors and peer reviewers about - News
North American seminar presentations now available online
The slides and audio of the three presentations at the recent North American seminar are now available for downloading here. Listen to Lisa Bero discuss ghost and guest authorship, Dave Kochalko talk about ORCID,… - Event
ISMTE North American Conference
Heather Tierney, COPE Council member, is presenting at the ISMTE conference in Baltimore on the following topics: Plenary Session 1: Preprints, Authorship Transparency, Bias in Peer Review August 2nd, 4.30-5.15pm Plenary Session 3: Transparency in Co-Authorship August 3, 12.00-12.45pm - News
Election of COPE Trustees 2019: Your vote counts!
…target="_blank">a brief summary of each candidate together with their applications. Voting is open until Wednesday 24 July 2019. Vote today… - Event
Update on publication guidelines and insights from AMWA, EMWA and ISMPP
The International Society of Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) invites members of COPE to a special educational webinar focused on medical publication guidelines, on Wednesday, January 28th, 11:00am – 12:30pm EST. The webinar will feature representatives from ISMPP, the American Medical Writers Association ( - News
COPE Asia-Pacific Workshop, Singapore
Following on from the success of previous workshops in Singapore and Beijing, COPE is delighted to announce another half day workshop, in collaboration with ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), on Wednesday 28 March 2018, at the Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay. The theme of the workshop is "Publication ethics". Editors, publishers, authors and all those… - Event
STM Research Integrity Master Class
Matt Hodgkinson, COPE Council Member, is speaking at STM's Research Integrity Master Class on 7 December 2022. Participants at the master class will learn about the latest trends in research integrity and help to shape the future of how we advance trusted research. Matt contributes to the master class sharing COPE guidelines and processes in dealing with integrity issues such as paper… - News
COPE Competition!
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Audio versions of December Forum cases now online
You can now listen to the cases presented at the December COPE Forums in audio. Listen to the full discussion and hear how the Forum members debated the issue and the conclusions they arrived at. The December cases start from Case Number 11-23 (Possible… - 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