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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… - 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… - 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. - 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… - News
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 - 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
In the news: January 2021
…data sharing statements, misuse of open access data, and issues of equity in open science. Preprints eLife, starting in July 2021 will publish only papers that have previously been posted on a preprint server, changing their model to be an organisation "that reviews and certifies papers that have already 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… - Case
“I was acknowledged but I should be an author”
A person named in the acknowledgements of a paper wrote to the editor indicating that they had been in part responsible for the analysis and interpretation of the data and should therefore be named as an author. I have had extensive correspondence (copies of emails, etc.) from both parties and spoken to both on the telephone. Clearly, earlier there had been an exchange of data between… - News
European Association of Science Editors - Short Course February 2011 - How to be a successful journal editor
EASE (European Association of Science Editors) is hosting Pippa Smart's How To Be A Successful Journal Editor course on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2011 in Warsaw, Poland. Pippa Smart will run her very popular course at the National Cancer Centre in Warsaw, kindly hosted by Edward Towpik. More information about course content can be found here: http://www.pspconsulting.org/journals.shtml…