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Scientifically meaningless research without consent
…new treatment. The practitioner admitted that he did not have ethics committee approval, and our judgement is that the study is effectively scientifically meaningless. It would be impossible to conclude anything with confidence. The men in the trial no doubt gave consent for the treatment, although there must be doubts about how informed their consent was. It’s not clear, however, whether they knew… - News
In the news: July 2021
…="https://community.cochrane.org/news/new-policy-managing-potentially-problematic-studies-systematic-reviews" target="_blank">Cochrane has developed a new policy and implementation guide. As part of a group of initiatives by the Indian University Grants Commission to address global concerns raised about the quality of papers published by Indian researchers, all researchers are required to take a course on Research and Publication Ethics in 2020-2021. At the Central University of Haryana, the - Case
Question of paper retraction due to proven fabricated data
…link with vision loss in men with a history of MI who have taken drug A (but only drug A now and not B). • 2009, August: drug company tells journal that author is expert witness and casts doubt on his letter. They want to release source documents to the journal that have been disclosed to them by the author’s university as part of the court case. The university is resisting because it wants… - News
COPE delegation, Beijing, 2017
…cases. ISTIC (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China) aids the research integrity office of MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology). Their work is on research integrity and journal oversight. In their meeting with COPE they explored how COPE might get involved with their… - Case
Authorship issue
…now left the institution). Dr A held the IRB. Dr A had instructed Dr C not to publish until the mother paper was completed. Dr C was asked by the editors to comment on these points, and he responded by saying that: the intellectual contribution from Drs A and B was minimal; he (Dr C) had added the relevant addendum to the IRB myself; Drs A and B had threatened to ruin his career if he did… - Case
Author requests for certain experts not to be included in the editorial process
…a policy for handling requests to exclude individuals from the journal’s editorial process. The following has been added to the journal’s editorial policy: “We reserve the right to send manuscripts to the reviewers of our choice”. The editor considers the case closed. Related resource Spanish version: - Case
Professional misconduct of one author
…a valid reason for issuing a correction to the literature. Moreover, if ICMJE authorship criteria are being used, the reason for removal of an author needs to be added; it must be an academic reason; and all authors would have to agree and sign off in… - News
Artificial intelligence: Lightning talk summary
…The checks carried out by AI are done at various stages: as part of initial verifications, as peer review is initiated, and as it continues. Sometimes flags are raised late in the process, for example, if new data have been added to the training bank after the article went into the process. Deciding when to run checks is a complicated process, especially when a manuscript is also changing as it… - Case
Conflicts of interest between authors and editors
…should declare this and not participate in the peer reviewer assignment or any editorial decisions, and a note should ideally be added in the paper about the independence of the peer review process. If the editor were already an editor in the previous articles and took part in their review process, their peer review has been compromised. A post-publication peer review would be needed with an… - News
Guest article: Research misconduct
…becoming better at uncovering it? These are difficult questions to answer for many reasons. In particular, because of the underlying research culture which drives misconduct and difficulties inherent in defining what it is. Back to top Research integrity While most - News
Letter from COPE: June 2020
…="https://publicationethics.org/resources/discussion-documents/cope-forum-6-march-2020-editing-reviewer-comments">website. Stay healthy and stay safe. Nancy Chescheir & Caroline… - Event
6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), Hong Kong, 2019
…and Edanz Group, Fukuoka 15:45 – 17:15 Symposium (SY3) Preprints: Beneficial or harmful for research integrity and publication ethics? A debate (Grand Hall) Sabine Kleinert, The Lancet and Chris Graf, COPE Past co-Chair (Conveners) John Inglis, bioRxiv; and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York Heather Tierney, COPE Council; and American Chemical… - News
Case discussion: critiques after publication
…can be contacted and an expression of concern added in the interim. If the author remains uncooperative, the editor is bound to retract the paper for the sake of not misleading readers, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and other stakeholders. The retraction notice should transparently explain what post-publication review procedures were followed and what happened. As an additional… - News
New Members: July-October 2019
…href="https://publicationethics.org/core-practices">Core Practices. New members ACS Chemical Heath & Safety Advances in Operator Theory Annals of Functional Analysis - News
In the news: October 2020
…="https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/journals-books/books/diversifying-readership-through-open-access" target="_blank">usage of open vs non-open access books and found that OA books were dowloaded 10 times more often, and cited 2.4 times more often, than non-OA books. A systematic search of "vanished" open access journals, using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, discovered 176 open access journals that vanished from the web (2000-2019).… Seminars
…22kB] Poster: Fraud and deceit in medical research Download [PDF 22kB] Poster: Authors’ awareness of publication ethics: An international survey- News
Predatory behaviour in publication ethics
…href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133320301270?via%3Dihub">list of predatory journals is inevitably subjective and varies from one list to another. Publishers and editors… Text Recycling: Forum discussion topic March 2013
…should amend the literature by adding the missing citation and clarifying what is new in the subsequent publication versus the original publication. Journal editors should consider publishing a retraction article when: There is significant overlap in the text, generally excluding methods, with sections that are identical or near identical to a previous publication by the same…- News
In the news: January Digest
…behavioural research. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0772-6 Ethical oversight ICMJE recommendations have been revised. The main changes are rephrasing COIs to relationships and activities, adding efforts for inclusion and diversity, and advising against citing predatory… List of delegates
…Lancet Anne Kitson Elsevier Elise Langdon-Neuner Journal of Men's Health and Gender George Misiewicz European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Jane Moody RCOG John Murie British Journal of Surgery Melissa L Norton…