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New! Discussion document on Consent for Publishing Medical Case Reports
…examples of case report forms. Please email all comments to Natalie Ridgeway, COPE Executive Officer here: http://publicationethics.org/contact-us… - News
Obituary: Tracey Bretag, COPE Council member
COPE, and all of us who are committed to academic integrity, lost a good friend last week. Dr Tracey Bretag passed away on 7 October 2020. Some of us knew Tracey as the Founding Editor of the International Journal for Educational Integrity. Members of the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) knew her as an active participant and speaker at their meetings. Many people use her valuable… - News
Changes to data regulations: GDPR
…a member journal of COPE. We need to collect personal data to allow us to carry out our duties to your members and to allow us to process and maintain membership. Our current privacy policy. Before the 25th May, this page will be updated and expanded to include specific details of how we handle your personal data, where it is stored,… Forum poll
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December 2017 news
…Humans Run Experiments, a Robot Writes the Paper The future of automated scientific writing is upon us--and that's a good thing.Robot writes paper Fostering Integrity in Research A consensus study report of The… - Event
4th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics 2011
Organized by: INSEIT/Ionian University/Macedonian University/Thessaloniki Law School ICIL 2011 is sponsored by the International Society for Ethics and Technology (US), the Institute for Legal Informatics (Germany), the International Center for Information Ethics (Germany) and NEXA Center for Internet and Society (Italy) For more details and information on call for papers please see - Event
COPE Forum: September 2023
COPE Members: join us for the COPE Forum where participants discuss publication ethics issues submitted by Members. The Forum will begin with a discussion on "Peer review models" before we ask participants for advice on Members' cases. REGISTER TODAY Submit a case to… - Case
Institutional investigation of authorship dispute
…participated in the work, but did not want to be listed as authors. The submitting author did not show us the agreement from the claimant to not be an author. The claimant informed us that one of these other people said they were presented with a pre-written statement to sign in English, which is not their native language. We asked the institution to investigate. After several months, the… - News
Applicants now being sought for the COPE International Advisory Board
COPE is pleased to announce that applications are now being sought for the COPE international advisory board. This has been established to enable us to gain an understanding of the ethical issues and concerns facing individual countries and regions. A local point of contact will be appointed to advise and assist COPE in its work to support editors and publishers of peer-reviewed journals in… - Case
Suspected fabrication of data
A reviewer expressed suspicion that data were manufactured. We wrote to the authors saying that our reviewer would like to see the original data. The author replied that this research was carried out in the USA. We then wrote back suggesting that his co-workers in the US would probably be delighted that this work was being submitted for publication and would happily send over the data but that… - Event
COPE Australian Forum
…rel="nofollow">http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&id=25 The Forum is where we discuss cases submitted by members. Anyone with an interest in publication ethics, including non-members of COPE, are welcome to attend. To submit a case for discussion at this Forum, please email the COPE administrator with a summary of the case. Cases must be completely anonymised. The deadline for case… - Event
ISMPP Asia Pacific Meeting 2019
…Nothing about us without us: Patient involvement in the communication of science ISMPP is offering a 10% registration discount to COPE members for its Asia Pacific Meeting, Bridging Global Standards and Regional Practices, 6 September 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. Learn about the meeting at - Webform
Registration for the 2023 COPE seminar, Publication Integrity Week
…a waiting list for the session. If you are unable to attend, please let us know by replying to the registration email, so that we can allocate your place to someone else. Alternatively, contact us at [email protected] - Case
Inadequate reporting of a trial, despite earlier rejection from a different journal
We have been contacted by a reviewer after he spotted a paper he had reviewed for us (journal 1) now published in a second journal (journal 2). Both journals are members of COPE. The reviewer had advised we reject the paper when it was sent to him to review in September 2008. This was based on his assessment of the paper and also the supplementary material he was sent by us: protocol, CONSORT… - News
COPE offers two scholarships to attend COPE's European seminar
…explaining why they would benefit from attending this meeting to the COPE Administrator here . The deadline for applications is Friday 13 January 2012.… - Event
COPE North American Seminar and Forum 2012
…those interested in publication ethics are welcome to attend. The Seminar is free for COPE members and $300 US for non-members. Registration is now open via the website.… - Event
EQUATOR Annual Lecture 2013
5th EQUATOR Annual Lecture will be presented by Professor Kay Dickersin, Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Director of the Center for Clinical Trials, and Director of the US Cochrane Center (USCC). Date: Monday 9 September 2013, 18:00 – 19:00 Venue: Swissotel, Chicago, USA (Peer Review Congress venue) Information:… - Case
A breach of confidentiality?
We ask our contributors to send us short mini-reviews of interesting articles they have come across in their regular reading. Most of our members also act as peer-reviewers and come across interesting articles as part of the peer-review process, before they are published . If they sent us one of those mini-reviews of an article they have peer-reviewed, and we kept the submission on file…