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Authorship, a blunt tool: "20 Jahre Research Integrity in Deutschland Was hat sich verändert? Wie geht es weiter?"
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/geraldine-pearson">Geri Pearson and Chris Graf - Webform
COPE integrity workshop 2021
…alt="Photo of COPE Council Member, Tara Hoke" src="/files/styles/140_wide/public/council/tara_hoke_sm_smarch.jpg" style="float:left; height:122px; margin:3px; width:90px" />Tara Hoke is General Counsel for the American Society of Civil Engineers, publisher of 35 peer-reviewed journals in the subject of civil engineering research and practice. Tara is… - News
Letter from COPE Vice-Chair: February 2020
…to better understand your needs and gave us insight on how to support our broad membership. A special thank you to everyone that participated in the survey. We discovered from the survey results that nearly half of respondents did not participate in the COPE Forums, but of those that attended, nearly 95% found them useful. Our next Forum is on 6 March 2020 and is a great opportunity for… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: August 2018
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/geraldine-pearson">Geri Pearson and Chris Graf - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: February 2019
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Letter from the COPE Chair: August 2019
…European colleagues there. Best wishes, COPE Chair Deborah Poff… - Event
Neicon 7th International Scientific and Practical Conference
Behrooz Astaneh, COPE Council member, is speaking at this conference titled "2018: Editorial Policy, Open Access, Scientific Communications". COPE webinar: Current Issues in Peer Review
…="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Current%20Issues%20in%20Peer%20Review%3A%20webinar&body=Questions%20for%20the%20webinar%3A">email your question in advance or ask questions during the webinar. The webinar is free, and open to COPE members only. Moderator- Event
1st COPE South American Seminar – Brazil, Monday 12 November 2012
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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… - Case
Competing interests question
…declaration of interests sufficient in its current form? Seeing that approximately 1% of evaluators declare any competing interests when probably 90% (again, a rough guess) have interests with regards to the articles they evaluate, would you have any suggestions on how we could improve the situation?… - 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. - News
Research integrity and how to buy a Persian carpet: TOP Guidelines, part 2
…research is communicated, like perhaps preprint servers and data repositories) to display, so research readers can check the knot count, fibre, and colour and then build-upon a piece of work. For you, now, the draft article from that TOP workshop is ready. We share it here with… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: July 2018
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/chris-graf">Chris Graf and Geri Pearson - 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
Habitual plagiarist
Author F published a single case report (CR1) in my journal. A few months later, I received a letter from author G who claimed that the case published by author F was a verbatim copy of his case report published in another journal H. On comparison of the documents it was obvious that CR1 was an exact reproduction of the article of author G. More than 90% of the sentences overlapped in both…