- Forum discussion topics
Predatory publishing: next steps and where do we go from here?
…href="https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5201748139806364687" target="_blank">Register to attend the Forum, Tuesday 15 December, 2-3.30pm (GMT). The Forum takes place by webinar and is available to COPE members only. --> Related resource COPE's Predatory publishing discussion document Your… - Case
Author of rejected letter blames global bias against his message and undisclosed conflicts of interest
The editor in chief received a letter to the editor criticising a paper published earlier in the journal. The editor first told the author of the letter that he would publish the commentary after he had given the authors of the criticised paper a chance to respond. When asked by the author of the letter, he later added that he would also publish the letter if the authors failed to respond.… - News
In the news: July Digest
…="_blank">https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/ugc-move-to-thwart-pay-and-publish-trash-culture/story-AP0BFFrbNuL1mN5WNbgCjI.html Peer review An experiment on peer review conducted by researchers at Harvard Business School, found that almost 50% of reviewers of medical funding applications changed their own ratings… - News
In the news: February Digest
…scientific record is, to this editor, awe inspiring. https://retractionwatch.com/2020/01/02/nobel-winner-retracts-paper-from-science/ In other news The New York Times published an analysis by Dana Goldstein of 8 American History texts used by 8th and 11… - News
Case Discussion: Data fabrication in a rejected manuscript
…and reliable system for the peer review of data. Trevor Lane on behalf of the COPE Education Subcommittee Read - News
Allegations of Misconduct webinar summary, April 2019
…the published record. COPE recommends against banning authors from future submission due to potential legal ramifications. COPE members are encouraged to look at the COPE flowchart on “What to do if you suspect plagiarism”. As an example of in a case of egregious plagiarism, Case 12-26 Reprimanded author plagiarises… The ethics of audit and research
…scrutiny? The definition of clinical science is much broader than it was 20 or 30 years ago, and much of what we do now is about patients and how to treat them. It has to be scrutinised by an ethical body. This includes audits and anything else used to measure something that is important for patients. If we include this, should we then extend it to animal…Subcommittees and working groups
…National Centre for Transgender Health) Robyn Speer (Luminoso) Back to top Conference proceedings Established in 2022. Many COPE members publish both journals and books, and wonder what are the similarities and differences with conference proceedings. A number of these members reference…- News
A vision for a more trans-inclusive publishing world: guest article
…divorce, or religious conversion to see how baseless this rigidity is. It is a vestigial and obsolete limitation that digital publishing has inherited from the print publishing world. The change from print to digital dominance has taken place only within the last 30 years. It is only possible and worthwhile to consider changing published works to correct the names of transgender authors because the vast… - News
Welcome new COPE members April-June 2019
Welcome to our new members who have joined COPE between April and June 2019. The new members have been assessed against criteria outlined in the Principles of Transparency and signing up to COPE shows that they intend to follow the highest standards of publication ethics and to apply COPE principles of publication ethics outlined in the