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In the news: October 2020
…Ayes: A fictional account of real fraud is a lengthy story of paper mills, research fraud, and publications. COPE Council Member Nancy Chescheir Read… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: November 2020
…tool serving authors from all disciplines.” Earlier this year, the TOP Factor was launched to assess eight measures of transparency and openness of journals, as a means of establishing integrity and rigour with which journals apply standards… Common ethical and editorial dilemmas of author misconduct: how should we respond?
…36 13 In most of the 212 cases (n=163), there is evidence of misconduct; in 36 cases, there is probably none. Common causes of research misconduct Duplicate/redundant/salami publication 58 Authorship…Outcomes of editors' attempts to investigate research misconduct
…Plagiarism 7 2 2 2 14% Total (%) 79 16 (20) 15 (19) 23 (29) 36 (46) In about one in five cases, the individual was exonerated. But in about 20% of cases,…- News
Research integrity and how to buy a Persian carpet: TOP Guidelines, part 2
…changing). “Promoting an open research culture,” published by Brian Nosek and colleagues in Science back in 2015, presents the well-known TOP guidelines. TOP describes how to aim for research transparency in eight standards and three levels. It’s - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar 2018: Creating and implementing data research policies
…standards, which NISO is spearheading. He outlined four roles that standards can play in data management policies, namely identification (persistent identifiers), description/discovery (via associated metadata), peer review of data, and data citation. He also explained that the role of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP)… - Event
COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
…="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Question%20for%20webinar%3A%20Enhancing%20partnerships%20of%20institutions%20and%20journals">email your question in advance or ask questions during the webinar. Cooperation between research institutions and journals Susan Garfinkel will share the findings and recommendations of the working group Enhancing partnerships of institutions… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical practice in research data publication - challenges, lessons and opportunities
…href="https://www.force11.org/datacitationprinciples">FORCE11 Data Citation Principles FORCE11 Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group FAIR Principles TOP Guidelines Dryad - Forum discussion topics
Claiming institutional affiliations
…-in-a-name-how-false-author-affiliations-are-damaging-academic-research/">What’s in a name? How false author affiliations are damaging academic research Vivienne C. Bachelet, LSE Blog Misrepresentation of institutional affliations: The results from an exploratory case study of Chilean authors Research article - Guidelines
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
…and available to all. 6. Licensing Licensing information should be clearly described on the website. Licensing terms should be indicated on the full text of all published articles (HTML and PDF). Content designated as Open Access must use an open licence. Licensing policies about the posting of author manuscripts and published articles in third… - News
Case discussion: critiques after publication
…restrictions, peer review, and author replies. Time restrictions (eg, weeks to months) may be imposed for the sake of recency. In turn, journals should establish office procedures for separating genuine correspondence from nuisance or defamatory correspondence, and for separating “regular” article critiques from notifications of concerns about an… - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
…cases Time on recording: 36:28-53:08 Marie Soulière summarised the 2012 COPE guidelines Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases and highlighted some of the changes that will be implemented in the current… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Authorship for sale
… Expressions of concern, COPE Forum discussion STM STEC Working Group on Image Alterations and Duplications - News
Case discussion: Editor manipulation of impact factor
…previous year’s or two years of articles would contribute to the score in the following year. As illustrated in case 04-36, it is doubly bad practice to pretend to review the field but mention only the same journal’s content from recent years so as to raise the… - News
Case discussion: Possible breach of reviewer confidentiality
…href="http://transpose-publishing.github.io/#/" target="_blank">Transpose database. Another initiative is the STM’s standardisation of terminology and definitions used to describe peer review practices. Trevor Lane on behalf of the COPE Education… - News
In the news: October 2018 Digest
…easily transferred) to promote reduction of biases of authors and reviewers and an increase in transparent presentation of results https://osf.io/u4mxd/ Do you use conference calls for conducting journal business? Report from the business sector, affirming data from other sectors, show that men spoke 92% of the time on… - News
In the news: April Digest
…Integrity Principles with 9 best practices to achieve them. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-019-00094-3 Bias A Holmes and S Hardy continue their deep dive to describe the effect of gender, assessed in about 80% of the time for both reviewers and authors using Genderize.io on naming order in… - Forum discussion topics
Artificial intelligence (AI) and fake papers
…publication. Learned Publishing. 2023; 36: 73-80. Doi:10.1002/leap.1533 AI in decision making, COPE discussion document Trustworthy AI for the future of publishing, COPE Seminar… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2022: Managing paper mills
…class="resource-download-inline__shadow"> Back to top Practical tips on managing paper mills Time on recording: 33:36-43:10 Jigisha Patel, COPE Council Member and independent research integrity specialist began with a reminder of who…