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COPE's eLearning course relaunched
…making it easier and quicker to access and progress through each module. There are now five interactive modules, providing advice and support to editors and publishers. The five modules cover plagiarism, falsification, fabrication, authorship and conflicts of interest. - Event
COPE Forum: dates for 2018
…(GMT) Deadline for submission of cases for the February Forum: 12 February Submit a case… - Event
COPE Webinar: Allegations of Misconduct, April 2019
COPE is hosting an hour long webinar around the theme ‘Allegations of misconduct’, on Friday 12 April 2019, 4-5pm (British Summer Time). Our speakers are: Susan Garfinkel, Assistant Vice President for Research Compliance, Ohio State University, Ohio Tara… - Event
ALPSP: How Publishing Ethics Can Nurture Trust in Scholarly Publications
…How Publishing Ethics Can Nurture Trust in Scholarly Publications The Association of Learned & Professional Society Professionals are delivering this course on Tuesday 8 March and Wednesday 9 March at 09:00-12:00 (EST), 14:00-17:00 (GMT), 15:00-18:00 (CET) Overview A wide range of ethical issues can arise in academic publishing. These can be caused… - Event
COPE Australia Seminar
…is themed "Levers for transparency: from funding through research to publication". The seminar will look at the various ways transparency can be promoted in research from the perspective of the funder, institution, researcher and publisher, exploring new ideas and ways to promote transparency now and into the future.… - Case
The anonymous critic
A letter containing details of a case report was submitted in February 1999. The authors were from Japan. After peer review and revision, the case report was accepted and a proof was sent to the authors. Two anonymous letters were then received, one on April 29 and another on 12 May, both from Japan. Both letters claimed that the author “has prized honour above everything else” and that he had… - News
Survey reveals need for guidance on places to publish
A survey carried out by Think. Check. Submit. has revealed a strong demand from both researchers and librarians for guidance about where to publish and an appreciation of the… - Case
A pre-submission inquiry with a bribe
…potentially interesting in submitting papers to our journal and wondered whether we might be interested in publishing 1–2 articles in each issue of the journal. The author also asked for a swift peer review process and even for me to help with making the revisions to the paper in order to enhance the chances of publication. Finally, the author concluded by saying they would pay me $1100 US dollars to… - Event
EQUATOR Workshop: Reporting guidelines:a tool to increase the quality of health research published in your journal
EQUATOR Workshop: Title: Reporting guidelines: a tool to increase the quality of health research published in your journal Date: Saturday 7 September 2013, 9.30 – 12.30 Venue: Swissotel, Chicago, USA (Peer Review Congress venue) Target audience: Editors and peer reviewers of medical research journals… - 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… - Case
The careless surgeon
A paper was submitted in which a young surgeon described five patients who died over six months under the care of one surgeon. The author suggested that the surgeon was dangerous and that something should have been done. Nothing was done and the surgeon has since retired. The paper, a very personal one, provides an interesting insight into the difficulties that doctors have dealing with problem… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 23 September 2014: Standard retraction form
…no clearly stated reason for retraction and when given these reasons are often lacking in detail. The difficulty with interpretation has never been quantified, however an absence of explanation was cited for 5– 12% of retraction notices. Following our study on retraction notices issued in 2013, we recommended the use of a retraction template. This template would meet the pre-requisites for… - Event
6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), Hong Kong, 2019
…transparency in research. COPE Council members are speaking at the following: Monday June 3, 2019 11:00 – 12:30 Symposium (SY2) Responsible authorship (LG.08) Charon Pierson (Convener) COPE Past Secretary Tracey Bretag, COPE Council; and University South Australia Adelaide Siu-wai Leung, University of Macau, Macau Trevor Lane, COPE Council;… - News
COPE Forum: 9 December 2014 meeting
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Tuesday 9 December 2014, 9–10.30am (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. The agenda and materials can be downloaded here (PDF 709kb). The invitation to join the webinar is below. We can accommodate up to 100 attendees,… - Case
Research on volunteers without informed consent or ethics committee approval
An experiment on a volunteer in hospital was written up. The volunteer was an asthmatic who was stable at the time and given a combination of intravenous magnesium sulphate and salbutamol to observe the pharmacological effects. The drugs were given under supervision in intensive care as they carry some risk of cardiovascular side effects. The paper reports: "After discussion with colleagues, a… - 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… - Case
Enquiry regarding copyright/retractions
…reviewed by experienced reviewers. In this case perhaps the number of reviewers could be increased to provide additional assurance for the journal editors and publisher. We would also suggest adding disclosure of the article history in the published paper. This would help ensure transparency, and possibly mitigate future complications if readers dig up the previously retracted version. - Event
COPE European Seminar 2019
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…ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT Friday 12 April 2019, 4-5pm (BST) Register here (Members only) COPE is hosting an hour long webinar around the theme of ‘Allegations of misconduct’, on Friday 12 April 2019, 4-5pm (British Summer Time). Publication and research…