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In the news: January 2019 Digest
…this could be rectified and argues the case for changing the cultural norms to allow this.https://psyarxiv.com/exmb2 COPE Council member Deborah Kahn Read - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: November 2021
…an expanded effort in growing membership in underrepresented geographical regions, broader outreach efforts, and a major upgrade to our website. As you can see, after adding our usual activities, we have the makings of a very busy year. For those of you who were able to attend COPE’s first virtual seminar, I hope you enjoyed the sessions. We are currently editing the webinar videos so anyone… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: April 2022
…of the workshops, and they intend to release the report soon. Dan Kulp, COPE Chair COPE Digest newsletter: April 2022 In our latest guest article, find out more about a project to detect… - News
Collaboration
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In the news: February 2018 Digest
…/v1" target="_blank">https://f1000research.com/articles/7-90/v1 This exposé of Devumi, a company which they describe as selling bots is a bit frightening. While its’ topic is primarily around social media influencing, it’s an easy leap to see how this sort of technology may be used in publishing—to increase… - 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.… - News
Authorship, a blunt tool: "20 Jahre Research Integrity in Deutschland Was hat sich verändert? Wie geht es weiter?"
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New guidelines from COPE: Sharing of Information Among Editors-in-Chief Regarding Possible Misconduct
New guidelines from COPE on 'Sharing of Information Among Editors-in-Chief Regarding Possible Misconduct' can be found here: http://publicationethics.org/files/Sharing%20_of_Information_Among_EiCs_.... These guidelines originated in a Forum discussion topic ( - Case
Confidentiality breach by an associate editor
The authors of a manuscript sent an official complaint to our journal regarding a breach of confidentiality by an associate editor (AE). The authors had been informed by the supervisor of a reviewer of a manuscript. After submission of the review, the reviewer received a confidential email from AE asking whether the favourable recommendation made by the reviewer would have been different if… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: June 2022
…COPE’s new initiative, opening membership for universities and research institutes. Facilitating communications between institutions and journals was a consistent theme throughout the conference. I’m looking forward to introducing our inaugural university and research institute members soon. In other news,…