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In the news: April 2020
…diversity inherently “reduces the risk of groupthink and unlocks creative and impactful solutions”. www.goldmansachs.com/what-we-do/investing-and-lending/launch-with-gs/pages/commitment-to-diversity.html The journal Development and its publisher, both… - 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… - Event
The 5th Annual GW Ethics & Publishing Conference
2012 CONFERENCE THEME:"PRESERVING, PROTECTING AND ENHANCING THE PUBLISHING ECOSYSTEM" This conference is designed for publishing professionals, but is open to the general public. More information can be found here.… - Event
COPE Forum: Tuesday 23 March 2021
The 23 March 2021 COPE Forum will be held at 14:00-15:30pm (GMT). COPE Members can now register to attend the March Forum; the deadline to register is Monday 22 March. The discussion topic will be on the subject on publication ethics and books. This will be… - News
Upcoming CrossRef webinars
…the web. Learn more about this new exciting initiative from CrossRef. Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2013Time: 8:00 am (San Francisco), 11:00 am (New York), 4:00 pm (London)Moderator: Rachael Lammey - News
Editing Medical Journals: Short Course
…attract the best authors; how to manage your journal and, how to make your journal successful. Full course details can be found on the websiteor by emailing Pippa Smart [email protected]. … - News
Welcome new COPE Council members
The results of our recent Council elections have been confirmed and we are pleased to welcome two new members to Council: Howard Browman and Frits Rosendaal. Frits Rosendaal is Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis and chairman of the - News
In the news: September 2018 Digest
…Peer review processes Is there a problem around diversity and inclusion in peer review?#PeerReviewWeek18https://twitter.com/PeerRevWeek/status/1031911897149394944 Gender and international diversity improves equity in peer review - News
In the news: July Digest
…Allegations of misconduct Claims about unethical organ harvesting in China is leading to serious concerns within the transplant research community. Several journals and publishers are investigating affected published articles, after a scoping review published in BMJ Open provided reason to believe that almost 450… - News
In the news: February Digest
…Misconduct A review of scholarly articles on the prevalence of ghost writing in scientific literature to be between 0.9% and 75%. Resources to address this such as the European Medical Writers Association ICMJE, and WAME are addressed. - News
In the news: November Digest
…Badges. https://www.webinarsains2019.com/ Think. Check. Submit. will be collaborating with the STEM Training in Ethics of Publication Practices (STEPP) programme, from Texas Tech University, which will research the challenges of dubious publishing practices and develop training materials to help researchers in making informed… - Event
COPE Forum: March 2023
…intelligence and fake papers" before we ask participants for advice on Members' cases. Publication and research ethics related to geopolitical issues
…href="https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/news/our-latest-statement-ukraine">Statement from Universities UK on suspension of a MoU sent to the President of the Russian Union of Rectors (RUR). Last updated on 7 April 2022 UKRI: UKRI’s response to the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine, 27 March 2022 Research Square:- News
In the news: November 2018 Digest
…Post publication discussion and corrections On October 25th, Retraction Watch released a database of 18,000 articles and conference papers which had been retracted since the 1970s. - News
In the news: May 2018 Digest
…-new-peer-review-problems-this-time-at-the-bmj/">https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/04/uncovering-new-peer-review-problems-this-time-at-the-bmj/ Data and reproducibility A bumper month for discussions of data and reproducibility. First of all, a useful article explaining how to determine whether sparse-data bias may have influenced the results of an article one is reading, and what to do if you suspect it is present. - News
In the news: March Digest
…target="_blank">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198117 Meanwhile, COPE Council member Vivienne Bachelet and colleagues have published a protocol of a research study to investigate the prevalence or otherwise of the misrepresentation of affiliations by authors. The results will be submitted to the WCRI and will be published in a peer reviewed journal - Event
Medical Editors short course
This international workshop (in its 22nd year) for editors looks at:(1) How to publish better content, and(2) How to increase journal impact. Run with only 25 participants, the course is highly interactive and allows editors to discover solutions for their own… - Event
Retractions and correction of the scholarly record: panel discussion
…Watch; Holden Thorpe, AAAS. Watch live webcast… International standards for editors and authors
…href="http://www.worldscibooks.com/socialsci/8102.html">here). We encourage editors to publish the statements in their own journals and reference them or incorporate them into their editorial policies and instructions for authors. (*Permission for republication is not required but the original source should be acknowledged.)