eLearning
Liz Wager, Former Chair of COPE, discusses the COPE eLearning course COPE is committed to improving editors' abilities to deal with publication misconduct.…- Case
Query triplicate publication?
_ The independent reviewer confirmed that there was 85–90% overlap. _ The editor wrote to the authors who agreed that the papers were identical but thought that it was such a good study that it deserved to be read widely. However, there had been no cross-referencing of the papers.… - Seminars and webinars
China Seminar 2017: Identifying authorship: how hard can it be?
…Download presentation: Identifying authorship: how hard can it be? [PDF, 2,109 KB]… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Trustworthy AI for the future of publishing
…href="#top">Back to top COPE recommendations: AI in decision making Marie Soulière, Head of Publishing Operations at Frontiers and COPE Council Member, provided the introduction and background to the session, with an overview of the COPE discussion… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: How do publication ethics practices for journals apply to book publishing?
…results of the survey in this webinar: what issues are most relevant in books, how and when it is possible to translate journals guidance into books guidance, and the differences that need to be recognised. Publisher perspectives of publication ethics issues in books Tamara Welschot talks about how books publication ethics issues are handled at SpringerNature and shares data on the… - Case
The author who wasn’t an author
A paper was submitted crediting three authors. The paper was sent to one of the journal’s regular statistical reviewers without noticing that she happened to be the second author. She wrote back to say that she had not been involved in writing the manuscript, nor had she seen this paper before. She did say, however, that she had supervised the computer input of the questionnaire data and that… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Authorship for sale
…small journals get involved? Ana Marušić is Professor of Anatomy and Chair of the Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health at the University of Split School of… - Case
Omitted author
A case series of 89 patients with a relatively rare condition was accepted for publication by the journal following due process through the peer-review system. The paper was published online within days of being accepted. A few days later the editor of the journal received an email from a professor (Professor X) from the same country from which the paper was submitted to say that one of the… - News
Applicants now being sought for the COPE International Advisory Board
COPE is pleased to announce that applications are now being sought for the COPE international advisory board. This has been established to enable us to gain an understanding of the ethical issues and concerns facing individual countries and regions. A local point of contact will be appointed to advise and assist COPE in its work to support editors and publishers of peer-reviewed journals in… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2015:Altmetrics in practice: where are they being used
…Download presentation: Altmetrics in practice: where are they being used (and misused)? [PDF, 2500KB]… - Case
Can two DOIs be assigned to the same manuscript?
A preprint server owned by a commercial publishing company posted a paper and assigned a DOI to the preprint. The manuscript was then submitted to peer reviewed journal X, owned by a different publisher. Assuming acceptance at the journal, can the article be published under a different DOI belonging to journal X? At journal X, Crossref registration is automatic. However, can two… - Case
Should this paper be retracted?
…correspondence to Journal Y, along with a document highlighting the similarities between the final article and data obtained in the laboratory. After this first claim, three authors listed in the paper published online by journal Y requested to be retracted from the author list, claiming they were not informed about the publication. Journal Y reviewed their peer review process and was unable to identify any… - News
A vision for a more trans-inclusive publishing world: guest article
…names per request does not pose any novel indexing challenge, and can and should be seamlessly rectified in this digital age. Back to top Author bios Theresa Jean Tanenbaum (“Tess”) Theresa Tanenbaum is an… - Case
Request for removal for one author but a coauthor cannot be reached
A journal accepted a paper but after receiving the decision letter, the corresponding author asked if one of the coauthors could be removed from the authorship list. This coauthor is now a prominent politician and felt that their new role would conflict with being an author on the paper. The journal informed the corresponding author that they would need written confirmation from… - News
Building an international register of ongoing systematic reviews: have your say
…style="margin-top:12.0pt">The register will be free of charge and will work in a similar way to clinical trials registers allowing researchers to prospectively record key features of their systematic reviews. Fuller details about the project have just been… - Case
Fabricated illness: a case that cannot be published under current guidance
…material. The carer admitted to deliberately contaminating the samples to achieve a positive test. While this condition is well described, it has not been identified by karyotyping in this way before. This probably accounted for us being slow to diagnose it. There are extremely important reasons for diagnosing fabricated illnesses. Unsurprisingly, the carer was not prepared to give consent… - Case
Dual publication may be necessary in some situations
At a recent editorial board meeting it was suggested that in some disciplines straddling several specialties, transparent simultaneous publication might be necessary. It was suggested that this applies to sexually transmitted infections, and different readers may not have access to each other’s journals. For example, in a study of human papilloma virus epidemiologists, virologists, STD… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical authorship versus fraudulent authorship
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Retraction notices: Who (if anyone) should be listed as author?
Publisher A has been developing an internal publisher style guide for retraction notices, but has not been able to find any obvious industry best practice when it comes to whether retractions should have an author byline, and if yes, who should be listed. Some retractions have no authors listed; others give 'The Editors of Journal X' as the author byline (in cases of retraction owing to author…