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Ethical approval procedural lapse
An observational study submitted to an institutional journal was sent for peer review. The authors were invited to submit a revision six months later. They did so, but had not responded fully to the reviewers' points, so they were asked for further clarification of their selection criteria, publication plan, and evidence of ethical approval. A paper by the same authors describing the same… - Case
“Research” without ethics committee approval
Eighteen patients with a variety of symptoms and 10 controls had various measurements taken after being given an oral glucose load. Participants also had routine blood sampling and were put on a defined diet for three days. The authors did not consider it necessary to obtain ethics committee approval, but all participating subjects signed a consent form recording their agreement to take part… - News
Ethical Editing – Autumn 2012 issue
Download the Autumn issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE. This issue's theme is ''Connections''. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.… - Case
Ethics approval for audit 1
…assess aetiology and quality of care. In the paper, aggregated results are described. However, the group did not seek formal permission from the ethics committee of their associated university as they regarded the survey as an audit. Under these circumstances, do the committee consider that formal ethics committee approval was essential and, as this was not obtained, would this preclude… - Case
Ethics approval and consent
A complainant raised six articles to the attention of the editor-in-chief, with concerns about ethical approval and possible conflicts of interest regarding the way that approval was granted. The studies all involved minority populations. Ethics approval had been granted by the institutions for all of the manuscripts involved, along with written informed consent and corresponding… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2015: Ethical peer review in a changing and challenging scholarly publication world
…Download presentation: Ethical peer review in a changing and challenging scholarly publication world [PDF, 998KB]… - News
COPE Digest: Publication Ethics in Practice. March issue published
The March issue of COPE Digest: Publication Ethics in Practice can be read in full here: http://publicationethics.org/cope-newsletter/2014/mar/cope-digest-public...… - News
Ethical Editing – Winter 2010 issue
Download the Winter issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE (http://publicationethics.org/newsletters). This issue's theme is ‘misconduct’. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.… - News
Ethical Editing – Spring 2012 issue
Download the Spring issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE.This issue's theme is ''15 Years of COPE!''. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.… - News
Ethical Editing – Summer 2012 issue
Download the Summer issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE. This issue's theme is '' Correcting the literature''. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.…