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    Duplicate submission to two journals and previous duplicate publication uncovered

    …publication. The authors replied, apologising for the error, which had been due to “hurry and inattentiveness, ” adding: “that the predicament is entirely due to circumstances beyond our intention. ” They requested that the paper be withdrawn. An explanation for the previous episode of duplicate submission was not given, although they said that they had sent a detailed letter to the editors of both journals,…
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    Seeking retrospective ethics approval

    …sought ethics approval from their institutional committee. The committee appears to have granted approval with the proviso that a notice be placed on the  website indicating that the material from the questionnaires was to be employed in research, not in supporting the activities promoted by the website, as first indicated. The notice was to remain up for 3 weeks so that any of the participants could…
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    Anonymity versus author transparency

    An editor invited an author to submit a paper to his journal. Colleagues of the author suggested “unsubmission” because it could be damaging to the author’s career. The editor contacted the publisher and requested that the paper be withdrawn. The editor then contacted the author asking if he would consider publishing the paper anonymously (ie, with no identifying names). The editor did not…
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    Plagiarism of a PhD thesis

    …to cite it in the reference list. The instructions for authors state that: "The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text." There are many opinions/views/cases available on different websites. But the prevailing view seems…
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    Author dispute over need for retraction

    The authors of a paper are in disagreement over whether the paper should be retracted.  One group of authors (group 1) wishes to publish a correction, and another group (group 2) feel that is inadequate, and the paper should be retracted.  Group 2 is concerned that one of the authors, author X, in group 1 is guilty of scientific misconduct. The remaining group 1 authors do not support this…
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    Paper B plagiarised paper A: what to do if a journal does not respond?

    …the absence of any reaction from the author/editor-in-chief/publisher of paper B?• Can this expression of concern/note be published based only on the assessment of the editor-in-chief of journal A? …
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    Article published at two journals after withdrawal from first journal

    …there must be sympathy with Journal A for the waste of editorial and reviewer resources, as per previous COPE cases it is the authors’ prerogative to withdraw their article at any stage before publication.  Therefore, in this instance Journal B does not consider the authors to have breached publication ethics with duplicate submission. Instead, Journal B considers Journal A to be at fault for…
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    Sanctions for citation cartels?

    Multiple journals appear to be affected by a citation cartel between a group of researchers across three universities, via the medium of special issues. All articles within the issues contain a high proportion of citations to the same researchers at the three universities, many as high as 100%. Looking at the pattern of citations to these researchers' work, they have only ever been cited in…
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    Announcement of COPE Council elections

    Due to vacancies on Council, we are seeking nominations for three new candidates. These are voluntary positions. Council is responsible for COPE’s policy and management. Council members are expected to attend four meetings a year (at least 2 of which are in London and 2 may be attended by phone or other media). There is also an annual 1 day strategy meeting which Council Members…
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    Letter from the COPE Chair: July 2021

    …equity, and inclusion, authorship, and ethics in book publishing will be tackled in a mix of webinars and workshops throughout the week. This is not to be missed and the content will be useful for everyone. Registration for the individual sessions will open soon.  COPE has been very busy as our volunteers continue to update and produce new guidance and resources. This month, the updated flowchart…
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    Advice regarding a weird type of content and its authorship

    …pathways annually. However, the annual review process is often the first time a clinical expert is reviewing the pathway. As a result, their “suggested revisions” are extensive. We would like to make such people authors (if they agree), partly so we can collect and display their competing interests and partly so that they can get “credit” for their work. This means that each year there could be new…
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    Identifying patient information published in a figure

    A reader emailed a society, which forwarded the message to the journal office, noting that he can read the name of a patient in a figure in a published letter to the editor. The letter was published online 3 months earlier and had just appeared in print; it was the print version the reader saw. The reader asked if the patient's name could be removed. The journal’s author instructions…
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    Serial plagiarism by an experienced author

    …material. This prompted an iThenticate check of the published paper, which gave a similarity index of 57%, with 45% of the material from three papers by other authors. (It should be noted that this paper was reviewed and accepted before iThenticate was available for checking incoming submissions.) It was clear that the new submission should be rejected. The key issue was the action to be taken…
  • Seminars and webinars

    Image manipulation

    … Back to top Image fraud, beautification, and genuine errors Rapid changes in technology in…
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    A breach of intellectual property rights?

    …resulting in group Y prohibiting any further publication on the same topic by group X without their authorisation (!?). In article A, the authors state that they used commercial reagents, although group Y allege that their reagents were available to group X at this time. Group Y are seeking what they perceive to be correct acknowledgement for their contribution, and there is an ongoing legal…
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    When to conclude correspondence from reader about errors in a published article

    …authors agreed with the editors that an erratum should be published containing the revised figures. Out of courtesy, the erratum was sent to Dr A, who replied stating that she did not feel the erratum to be adequate and voicing more concerns about the modified figures. After further lengthy back and forth discussion with the authors and Dr A, the editors decided that the erratum should first be
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    Allegations related to multiple papers and journals

    …referred the concerns to the institution responsible for the research governance of the authors. The institution said they would investigate and respond by a certain date, but their response is slightly overdue. Question(s) for the COPE Forum Should an expression of concern be published while waiting for the outcome from the institution? One of the…
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    Duplicate publication in a predatory journal

    A paper was submitted to a journal. While the paper was being processed, the authors contacted the journal and advised that a predatory journal had published the same paper without their permission (the authors apparently submitted it in error, then withdrew it, but the journal proceeded with publishing). The authors are currently pursuing a legal case against the predatory journal to have the…
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    Withdrawal of an article

    …the manuscript and advised the authors that no other journal would be able to publish their manuscript. A few weeks later the authors resubmitted the same manuscript to Journal A as a new submission. In their cover letter they said that their paper in Journal B had been withdrawn. However, a check of  Journal B’s website shows that both the abstract and the article PDF have been replaced with…
  • News

    Guest editorial: Tackling paper mills

    …href="https://thebiochemistblog.com/2021/05/06/papermills-in-bioscience-reports/">targeted, for some time, by a ‘paper mill’. We were fortunate that the anonymous reader was reachable, and that they were willing to discuss with us and elaborate on how they had identified some of the issues in the figures, most commonly Western blots, microscopy images, and flow cytometry graphs. In addition to learning how to identify potential paper mill articles and issues in figures as…

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