APAME 2013 Tokyo
…APAME 2013 Tokyo Asia Pacific Association of Medical Editors (APAME) Convention 2013, Tokyo, Japan Date: 2–4 August 2013 Venue: Japan Medical Association (JMA) Auditorium, 2-28-16, Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8621, Japan COPE will hold two 90 minute sessions on the afternoon of 3 August during the annual congress of the…- Event
ISMPP webinar: Graphical Presentation of Data in Medical Publications
ISMPP invites you to attend this special 90-minute ISMPP University educational webinar, on Wednesday January 25 at 11 am ET/4 pm GMT. The webinar is free to all regardless of ISMPP membership status. Webinar attendees will learn from experts about how to integrate essential graphical presentation elements into medical publications. Figures, tables and images contribute to data interpretation… - Event
EASE Conference
A stimulating programme of plenary lectures (including Bernd Pulverer, EMBO Press, María del Carmen Ruíz Alcocer, AMERBAC, and Mark Patterson, eLife) and parallel sessions covering a range of topics on editing and managing journals, sex and… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2013: Posters
…">Poster: Fraud and deceit in medical research [PDF 22KB] Poster: Authors’ awareness of publication ethics: An international survey [PDF 25KB]… - Case
Dual submission
_ Around one in five published papers are republished in substantial form. _ A study in the 80s found that over 10 per cent did not mention previous publication, but a second study at the end of the 90s suggested this figure was around 1%. _ It takes considerable time and effort to look at all the referenced papers to see if there is any overlap and then those are the published ones, not those… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: June 2022
…src="/files/council/dan-kulp-90x90.png" style="margin: 3px 9px; float: left; width: 90px; height: 90px;" />Dan Kulp, COPE Chair Read COPE Digest newsletter, June 2022, in which we launch the paper mills research report with STM and invite you to join the discussion on Dealing with complaints about the integrity of… - Event
Scholarly publishing in a connected world: Turning disruptions into opportunities
…publishing industry more widely. There will be tips on how to spot and deal with suspected paper mill submissions and guidance on how to manage large scale paper mills. Read more and register… - News
Wiley launch new ethics guidelines
Wiley has launched the second edition of its Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics: A Publisher’s Perspective. In the new edition, guidance has been added about whistle-blowers, animal research and clinical research, particularly around clinical trial registration. The press release can be read in full - News
Creating and implementing research data policies: COPE webinar report
…consistently implemented. Quick polls that were held during the webinar revealed that most of the audience had experience of journal data policies as a publisher or editor (85%). Only 9% had not had any experience of journal data policies. Of those who had, most had encountered policies that encouraged data sharing (80%) or required a data availability statement (80%). Fewer had encountered mandatory… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: September 2018
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/chris-graf">Chris Graf and Geri Pearson - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar 2018: Creating and implementing data research policies
…href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected], which will answer queries within two business days. So far, 1091 journals have adopted data policies, mainly types 1, 2, and 3. Varsha Khodiyar (Data Curation Manager, Open Research Group, Springer Nature) described how the journal Scientific Data implemented its type 4 research data policy. This required adding advice on… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: June 2018
…participate because he wanted his data and was reluctant to consider the broader implications. The clinical director wanted to protect staff and their personal opinions, to keep them separate from the care they provided in the clinic. While this scenario represents a broader and ongoing controversy in ethical oversight, ( - Case
Retrospective ethical approval?
…ethics committee who would consider giving this retrospectively. A subsequent email from the chairman of the ethics committee to the journal expressed doubt about the value of retrospective approval, pointing out that when a study was reviewed prospectively it was possible to suggest changes to the protocol, which obviously could not be done when it was viewed retrospectively. The chairman added that… - Case
Plagiarism or redundant publication?
A manuscript was submitted with a covering letter clearly stating the originality and unpublished nature of the work. The authors stated that the results had already been orally presented at a meeting the previous year. Before sending the manuscript for review the editors discovered that the manuscript contained 60% of the Materials and Methods text and 90% of the Results section of… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: September 2022
…pleased by the interest we have received from institutions around the world and fully welcome their participation in future conversations around publication ethics. So, once again, enjoy Peer Review Week and I hope to see you at many of the events. Dan Kulp, COPE Chair - Event
COPE Forum: September 2023
COPE Members: join us for the COPE Forum where participants discuss publication ethics issues submitted by Members. The Forum will begin with a discussion on "Peer review models" before we ask participants for advice on Members' cases. REGISTER TODAY Submit a case to… News feeds (RSS)
These news feeds allow you to see when new content has been added to the COPE website. You can get the latest cases, members, news & events and publication ethics blog entries as soon as they are published, without having to visit the website. Feeds are also known as RSS. There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but most people plump for 'Really Simple Syndication'. In essence,…- Event
APAME 2013 Tokyo
COPE will hold two 90 minute sessions on the afternoon of 3 August during the annual congress of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME) in association…