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Wrong version of article published. Should we retract?
The incorrect PDF version of an article was published together with the correct HTML, XML and EPUB versions. The variations between the PDF and other versions are language editing related, and do not affect the scientific value or scientific nature of the article. Questions for COPE Council Given that two version of the article exists, should the journal retract… Presentations
…Disclosure Download PDF (1.4 Mb) Presented by Jeremy Theobald At the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Fourth National Integrity in Science Conference Washington, DC, USA 11 July 2008 Research Integrity: What Is It and Who's…- Event
COPE North American seminar
…'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">13 August 2014 at the - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: November 2018
…China. Adrian Ziderman has been re-elected for a second term to COPE Council. We welcome them all as we move into the next year. Read November Digest: Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections COPE co-Chair - Case
Wrong article abstract published: corrigendum or retraction and republication?
…made, and it did not involve misconduct/fraud or affect the validity of the actual findings. This appears to be a simple mix-up, although it shows the need for careful version comparison during production and proofreading. In the case of e-first publication, there is a window of opportunity to make corrections, so if the journal can, they might replace the abstract in the HTML and PDF… - Case
The ethics of self-experimentation
…of interest.— The need for IRB or ethics committee approval would totally exclude from publication any self-experimentation research performed by an independent researcher because they will not have access to any ethics committee or institutional review board. This would have prevented the publication of reports of highly useful reports ( - News
In the news: February Digest
…were male and younger”. Only 8.1% of reviewers opted to reveal their names and the authors suggest that this supports the view that peer review depends on anonymity. Preprints Papers with involve human subjects or their medical records will not be accepted by 4 major orthopedic journals if they have been posted on a preprint server. The editors of the journals jointly published an… - Seminars and webinars
WCRI 2019: Preprints and their place in the publication ethics landscape
…(COPEand American Chemical Society) introduced the COPE discussion document on preprints and shared COPE’s recommendations for authors, journals, publisher, and preprint… - News
Guest editorial: the challenge of AI chatbots for journal editors
…="http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/10jvv3q/eli5_what_exactly_is_text_burstiness_and_text/">where precise meaning is required eg in a legal sense) and burstiness (rare words appearing in a text) of the text. This might present an additional challenge for some authors using this software. Their writing may be detected and flagged up as… Rights and permissions policy
…href="#photo">Photography and copyright Reproducing or translating COPE materials Our COPE materials are available to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This means that you are free to copy…- Case
Retrospective registration, outcome switching and ethical approval
…Concern. The National Library of Medicine has a fact sheet (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/errata.html) detailing the types of corrections that can be linked to an article. This list includes “Comments” which could be used to link commentary from the authors as well as from editors. Some journals ask for the full protocol… - News
Complaints and appeals
…upcoming COPE Forum and more. Read April 2018 Digest: Complaints and Appeals… - News
Post-publication discussions and corrections focus
…--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read November Digest: Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections. This issue of Digest announces new resources What to do if you Suspect Image Manipulation in a Published… - Case
Removing a retracted article from a third party site
…original article was published under a CC-BY license with the authors as the copyright holders. The article is available in full as a pdf on website Z. This is not one of journal A's indexing partners and we believe it may have been downloaded from journal A's website before retraction and uploaded to website Z. Numerous email takedown notices from the publisher to website Z have not been… - News
In the news: May 2020
…acceptable. The document was not meant for public viewing, but was posted on the website of the Fudan University in Shanghai. https://us.cnn.com/2020/04/12/asia/china-coronavirus-research-restrictions-intl-hnk/index.html The managing editor for academic publications at… - News
WCRI 2019: Preprints and their place in the publishing ethics landscape
…href="https://www.cshlpress.com/" target="_blank">Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) spoke first and gave a history and background of preprints. Heather Tierney (COPE and American Chemical Society) introduced the - Case
Re-publication of peer reviewed articles as translations
…each journal will be important, as will whether these cover the same dates for articles which have already been published. This should be borne in mind when consulting the Related resources, below. Related resources ICMJE guidance on overlapping… - News
In the news: May 2021
…cases, scientific misconduct is better handled through other professional channels. More details of the actual complaint can be found on this blog. A team of media forensics researchers from seven universities, led by Purdue, has developed an… - News
COPE at Sense about Science workshop. Peer review: the nuts and bolts
…stories which bought home the need for training, mentoring, feedback and recognition for peer review. Collectively, we agreed that funders and research councils played a vital role here, as well as publishers and institutions too. How can we work together on this? And wouldn’t it be great if - News
Peer Review Week 2018: new and revised COPE resources
…width="560"> Listen to our podcast of an interview conducted by Charon Pierson, Secretary of COPE, with Professor Andy Hor, Vice President of Research at Hong Kong University. This podcast explores some of the formal and informal ways that institutions contribute to diversity in the pool of peer reviewers by admitting a global…