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In the news: April 2020
…href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17414857/2020/33/1" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17414857/2020/33/1 Wellcome commissioned a review of research culture, including literature review, qualitative interviews and surveys. This report,"What Researchers Think About the Culture they work in" explores the findings. - Event
ALPSP Workshop, Publication Ethics: Fraud and misconduct
This is a practical course to help you understand your legal and ethical obligations and implement a successful diversity and inclusion strategy in your workplace. Diversity and inclusion have never been higher on the news and social agenda than at present, and this course will… - News
In the news: March 2018 Digest
…/10.1177/0192623318754792" target="_blank">http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0192623318754792 While henceforth Nature journals will require authors to disclose non-financial, as well as financial conflicts of interest - News
In the news: February 2018 Digest
…would be associated with higher rates of this behavior. One journal used badges and the other did not. The rate of data sharing, but not code sharing, was higher in the journal that awarded badges. While the results were only modest, the authors suggest that this is a reasonable, low cost way of incentivizing code and data sharing. - 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
Conflicts of interest between authors and editors
Recently, we have received a manuscript submitted by our Editor in Chief (EiC), with almost all of the Editorial Board Members and some of our authors of previous submissions as co-authors. In dealing with this we noticed that some of our previous published articles currently have conflicts of interest between the authors and the Academic Editor (AE). Our peer review policy states that… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical authorship versus fraudulent authorship
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Seminar 2022: Book wars
…src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JqsKaZ4dtiM?rel=0"> Speaker John B Thompson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. His publications… - News
In the news: July Digest
…translation of articles and republished in another language under a different author name https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/theo.12188 Authorship and contributorship Single author papers are declining globally and across all disciplines… - News
In the news: February 2022
…pandemic rapidly developed, massive research outputs were published in preprint servers and peer-review journals. Neither venue performed flawlessly and the research community look for ways to improve the processes. This preprint describes 14 principles, clustered around four broad themes: Focused, Appropriate, Specific, Transparent… - News
Editor to Editor support for Journal Management
…Practices for Journal Websites (INANE collaborators 2016). Another related project is the recently published paper examining 80 nursing journals for adequacy of their author guidelines, conducted by Oermann and colleagues ( - Event
COPE 25th anniversary seminar, 2022
…="https://publicationethics.org/resources/seminars-and-webinars/universities-publishers-relationship">Watch panel: the relationship between universities and publishers Speakers John B Thompson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of… - Case
Publishing complications and patient safety
…publishing medical case reports” https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines/journals%E2%80%99-bes... If the editor wants to develop this project, he needs to have a strategic plan to publish these cases that considers the larger picture, and… - News
In the news: March Digest
…/content/9/2/e023983.full" target="_blank">https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/2/e023983.full Humanities research A report from Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, shows that spending on Humanities research in the USA was at a 10-year high in 2017, at just under $500m, a 76.5% increase over 2007 when adjusted for inflation. - News
Follow COPE on Facebook and Twitter
COPE now has its own Facebook page as well as a Twitter account. Click on the links to follow us: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/COPE-Committee-on-Publication-Ethics/107658079276587 Twitter: - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: How do publication ethics practices for journals apply to book publishing?
…harm. Far more of the queries to CUP are from the humanities and social sciences where the opposite is true in journals. There is a growing expectation of greater transparency around book publication policies and practice. Speakers - Event
ISMPP webinar: Graphical Presentation of Data in Medical Publications
ISMPP invites you to attend this special 90-minute ISMPP University educational webinar, on Wednesday January 25 at 11 am ET/4 pm GMT. The webinar is free to all regardless of ISMPP membership status. Webinar attendees will learn from experts about how to integrate essential graphical presentation elements into medical publications. Figures, tables and images contribute to data interpretation… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Keynote address
…class="resource-download-inline__shadow__inner"> Speakers Dan Kulp, COPE Chair, and Director of editorial development for journals, American Chemical Society (ACS). He received his PhD in materials… - News
In the news: May Digest
…/courses/studying/academic-integrity" target="_blank">www.epigeum.com/courses/studying/academic-integrity In other news In this post, Rob Warren lays out empirical evidence from the field of Sociology showing that early career and PhD researchers are expected to publish more research and earlier in their careers than previous generations, if they are to secure a permanent job, and highlights two market trends driving this.