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Letter from the COPE Chair: December 2021
…="https://www.elsevier.com/connect/reviewers-update/the-case-for-more-diversity-in-peer-review">Elsevier making the case for more diversity in peer review, and others. I hope you find this issue of COPE Digest interesting and informative, and that you go into 2022 with a renewed drive to continue to improve diversity and inclusivity in scholarly publications. - Event
Pakistan Association of Medical Editors (PAME) Conference
COPE Council member, Behrooz Astaneh, with present a talk about COPE, as well as moderate a workshop on publication ethics, at the Pakistan Association of Medical Editors (PAME) Conference in Lahore, 26-27 April. The programme can be found here. … - 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A manuscript was submitted with a covering letter clearly stating the originality and unpublished nature of the work.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: June 2022
…href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01604-3">diversity, equity, and fairness in global collaborations, which will be released soon. It was wonderful that the meeting took place in Africa for the first time, and we were able to hear from those directly impacted by historic inequities in financial and scientific resources. As COPE Chair, I moderated a symposium panel on “When and how to report misconduct to institutions, journals,… - Case
Publishing complications and patient safety
…environment in the country of origin, including regulations on informed consent. As there are 120 cases, are there also 120 authors? If there are many authors, it may be easy to anonymise the cases, especially if the authors could be added in alphabetical order to help disguise identities. Otherwise, it is difficult to anonymise the data and retain essential elements for learning purposes.… - 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… - Case
Reviewer requests to be added as an author after publication
…conflict of interest or request that they should be an author on the paper. The reviewer returned a very good review and along with another two reviews (R2/R3), and after revision (where the revision once again was sent to R1) the paper was accepted and published. A few months later, the journal was approached by another researcher (E1 who is from the same laboratory as R1) who said that… - Webform
COPE integrity workshop 2021
…(BST), 11:00-12:30 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)--> COPE is delighted to announce an online workshop which looks at the lessons that can be learnt from issues of concern raised to COPE's Facilitation and Integrity subcommittee. At the workshop we will: discuss the framework within which the Facilitation and… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: September 2018
…target="_blank">recognition for review” in 2016, where our community explored “all aspects of how those participating in review should be recognized for their contribution”. In 2017, PRW focused on an important theme for all members of COPE, “transparency.” That theme is more relevant now than ever. This month… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: June 2018
…href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.92.7.1079" target="_blank">paper published in 2002, London noted that the system tends to be driven by a concern about procedural correctness rather than a substantive approach to ethical reasoning. These drivers can be applicable in the world of publication ethics. Is this concern for procedural correctness a barrier to ethical oversight or an excuse for not applying ethical reasoning to activities… - Case
Should we have had author consent for a randomised controlled trial of a peer review?
…Conclusion A notice should be added to the Instructions to Authors, to the effect that from time to time their papers may be used in trials of peer review and that this may slightly delay the processing time. In addition, the letter acknowledging receipt of the article might also contain notice (but with a light touch). In both cases, the authors can be given the opportunity to opt out.… - 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
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: March 2019
…paper and he dismissed my concerns about my name being on a publication that I had never seen. He told me to be glad that I had been included and that I now had something to add to my curriculum vitae. Being new, inexperienced, uncertain, and overshadowed by his authority, I let this go. At that time, the publication ethics “rules” about what it means to be an author were less clear than today.… - News
In the news: February 2018 Digest
…would be associated with higher rates of this behavior. One journal used badges and the other did not. The rate of data sharing, but not code sharing, was higher in the journal that awarded badges. While the results were only modest, the authors suggest that this is a reasonable, low cost way of incentivizing code and data sharing. - Case
Attempt at dual publication
…comparison found the manuscripts to be approximately 90% the same, with entire sections duplicated. Differences comprised slightly poorer language usage in the recent submission, some single sentence updates, one extra paragraph in one section and some changes to the conclusions. Some sections from the published review had been deleted to fit our shorter word limits. No reference to the earlier publication… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: September 2022
…use these criteria in assessing a journal. The Principles of Transparency are central to COPE’s membership criteria. At our seminar in May, I introduced COPE membership for universities and research institutes. Initially we are reaching out to a small group of research universities and institutions to be the inaugural members of COPE, and we are delighted to announce the first of those… - 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…