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COPE Forum: December 2023
…href="https://publicationethics.org/case/consent-forms-forged">uspicion that signed informed consent forms are forged Request for removal from author list for reasons of religious belief Image integrity flags on 15-year-old published… - 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… - News
Survey reveals need for guidance on places to publish
…completed by 410 respondents from all parts of the world. In-depth analysis of the findings is still ongoing but preliminary analysis points to some clear trends: ● Think. Check. Submit. is welcomed and seen to be fulfilling an important role. 14% said it was “essential” and 42% said it was “very useful”, while less than 7% of respondents said the initiative was “not very useful” or “not useful at… - Event
COPE Forum: December 2022
…advice? Submit a case The deadline to submit a case for this Forum is: Thursday 24 November 2022. --> Forum agenda On Thursday 8 December 2022 the COPE Forum will be held at 14:00-15:30pm (GMT / UTC) 1. Update Update on COPE activities by the Chair. 2. Forum discussion topic We begin the… - News
COPE Forum: 10 June 2015 meeting
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Wednesday 10 June 2015, 9am–10.30am (British Summer Time). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. The agenda and materials can be downloaded here (PDF 712kb). The invitation to join the webinar is below. We can accommodate up… - News
COPE endorses GPP3
…al. Good Publication Practice for Communicating Company-Sponsored Medical Research: GPP3. Ann Intern Med. Published online 11 August 2015 doi:10.7326/M15-0288… - News
COPE Forum: 9 December 2015
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Wednesday 9 December 2015, 12noon–1.30pm (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. The agenda and materials can be downloaded here (PDF 478kb). The invitation to join the webinar is below. We can accommodate up to 100… - Event
COPE Forum: Thursday 1 August 2019
The next COPE Forum will be a face to face meeting at the INANE Conference in Topaz Ballroom 2, The Reno Renaissance Hotel in Reno, Nevada, USA. it will run from 2.15pm to 5pm (Pacific Daylight Time). - Event
COPE Webinar, Understanding Text Recycling, August 2020
COPE is hosting a webinar on Text Recycling on Friday 7 August 2020, 16:00-17:15pm (BST) when we hear the latest findings from the members of the Text Recycling Research Project since they presented at last year's COPE European Seminar. Text recycling, also known as self-plagiarism is a common practice in research writing—especially in the sciences. It’s also complicated, both ethically… - Case
A further case of redundant publication
A paper was submitted to a UK specialist medical journal. At review, one of the reviewers alerted the editor to the fact that a very similar paper had been published in a US specialist title. It seems very likely that the reports describe the same randomised controlled trial. The only piece of new information was not an important outcome of the trial. The authors did not disclose the existence… - Case
Clinical misconduct(?), incidentally discovered
An author submitted a speculative article offering a new explanation for the aetiology of premenstrual syndrome, and a new suggestion for its treatment. The paper was wholly based on a priori reasoning, rather than evidence. It was rejected. The authors appealed, citing as evidence in favour of publishing their paper that they had had successful results treating two patients with the proposed m… - Case
Attempt at multiple plagiarism
In January 2004 a submission was made to Journal A from a laboratory in a different country. In April 2004 it was bought to the editor’s attention that the manuscript was a verbatim copy of a paper published in 2003 in another journal, Journal B. The only difference between the manuscripts was that the names and affiliations of the authors on the second paper were different to the first paper.… - Research
Data sharing policies in scholarly publications: interdisciplinary comparisons
…sharing processes and platform solutions across different subject areas. The authors look at the information sharing policies of 150 journal websites, and publishers, from 15 disciplines to understand the levels of different data sharing policies in different fields. 'The results consolidate the notion of the primacy of biomedical sciences in the implementation of data sharing norms and… - News
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COPE authorship workshop February 2021
…Online cases workshop for COPE members only Wednesday 10 February 2021 15:00-16:30pm (GMT); 10.00-11.30am (EST) Wednesday 24 February 2021 09:00-10:30am (GMT); 17.00-18.30pm (AWST); 20.00-21.30pm (AEDT) Following on from the success of our virtual workshops last year, COPE is delighted to announce an online workshop on… - Case
Plagiarism and possible fraud
…detailing data from just 15 patients. A review of the author’s publication history revealed that s/he had changed “routes” over the past 5-6 years, publishing only fairly brief reports.… - 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… - Event
COPE Forum: Thursday 9 December 2021
…Forum agenda The 9 December 2021 COPE Forum will be held at 14:00-15:30pm GMT / UTC 1. Update on COPE activities by the Chair. 2. New cases Request to remove an author post-publication - Case
Surprising results and a new area of research
…was a complete departure from the previous work of the first and senior authors. The editor wrote to the authors pointing out that the photos were the same. He received a garbled response, saying that computer photomicrographs got muddled up. There were 15 authors, all of whom were faxed. The first author responded immediately.… - Case
Ethics approval for audit 1
A group in a developing country decided to do a survey of maternal mortality in relation to the available local facilities in the various regions of their country. They set up a small committee to look at the incidence and causes. They obtained the permission of the local authorities, including the local elders, community leaders, and local health care providers, to scrutinise records and asses…