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Letter from the COPE Vice-Chair: December 2022
…experienced the energy amongst your work groups generated by a return to in-person meetings, and this was no exception. In this report, I will summarise the key discussions which we hope you will consider. In 2023 we will be conducting a member survey before we start to consider our new strategic plan for 2024 onwards, and we hope that you will keep this in mind when submitting your responses. We will also… - Case
Living unrelated (commercial) organ transplant
…publication, is acceptable from the scientific point of view. Can it be accepted on ethical grounds? By publishing this article, is the editor giving publicity to a practice which most condemn?… - Case
Dual submission
…one that have occurred over the past 12 months. Once again, this case was spotted by chance. The editor feels that there must be many more examples of duplicate publication that get through, especially when they go to different journals. How can editors prevent these cases, rather than trying to catch them in a net with many holes in it? Is the answer to take stronger action against those that are… - News
Peer review week 2022: webinars
As part of Peer Review Week 2022, COPE hosted the webinar Practical steps for managing paper mills. The speakers give practical tips on how to manage systematic manipulation of the publication process, at scale, and describe their experience of dealing with paper mills affecting their journals, - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: February 2022
…10 May. Hope to see you, virtually, there. Once again, COPE will be supporting the World Conference on Research Integrity, in May this year, as a Rhino sponsor. The conference's overarching theme is “Fostering research integrity in an unequal world”. The conference will be a hybrid event with… - Event
INANE Annual Conference 2015
The INANE (International Academy of Nursing Journal Editors) annual conference is being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 3-5, 2015. In addition to the conference, COPE council members Charon Pierson and Geri Pearson will be leading a COPE Forum. For more… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: January 2019
…height: 125px; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; float: left;" /> Read January 2019 COPE Digest newsletter and use the COPE Audit Tool, read a case discussion on citation manipulation, get dates in the diary for COPE events in 2019, and keep… - News
In the news: April Digest
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Good Publication Practice 2022
December 2022 Dr Trevor Lane, COPE Trustee and Council member, was invited to deliver a presentation introducing COPE’s mission and resources at the 2022 Forum on Good Publication Practice, held virtually on 2 December 2022. Hosted by the University of… - Case
Patient consent and non-consent
We published an article that contained a detailed account of a woman’s obstetric and psychiatric history. The information had been obtained from a court judgement and is published in Family Law Reports. The article had been written by two people who had never met the patient in question. The patient’s consent was not sought because the information was on the public record. We subsequentl… - Event
National Academy of Sciences Meeting
Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies The goal of this colloquium is to bring together scientists and researchers from multiple disciplines to lay out the scope of the problem of reproducibility in a more tactical way that permits each problematic aspect to be measured, assessed for baseline levels, targeted with proposed interventions to reduce the… - News
Revised Good Publication Practice guidelines published
The newest revision of the Good Publication Practice” (GPP) guidelines is now freely available (free account registration may be required). The revised guidelines, called GPP 2022, were published on 30 August 2022 in the Annals of Internal Medicine and are the fourth version of GPP, first published in 2003. The GPP… - Case
Ethical approval requirements for case study reports
…reporting is carried out. The key point from a publication ethics point of view is that journals should make their policies clear on when they expect ethics approval, as well as what declarations are needed at submission and in the paper. Examples of some comprehensive case report guidelines can be found at - News
Editor to Editor support for Journal Management
…Practices for Journal Websites (INANE collaborators 2016). Another related project is the recently published paper examining 80 nursing journals for adequacy of their author guidelines, conducted by Oermann and colleagues ( - News
In the news: July Digest
…Allegations of misconduct Claims about unethical organ harvesting in China is leading to serious concerns within the transplant research community. Several journals and publishers are investigating affected published articles, after a scoping review published in BMJ Open provided reason to believe that almost 450… - News
In the news: October Digest
…intolerance. The authors surmise in the abstract that the editors at times have trouble aligning their beliefs and practices. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/leap.1259 Peer review Elsevier's Jeroen Baas and Catriona Fennell, both analytics experts, found that about 1% of 55,000… - Event
COPE Forum: Thursday 3 March 2022
…Forum agenda On 3 March 2022 the COPE Forum will be held at 11:00-12:30pm (GMT / UTC) 1. Update on COPE activities by the Chair. 2. Forum discussion topic. We begin the COPE Forum with a discussion on the topic of Editorial conflicts of interest. 3. New… - Event
7th World Conference on Research Integrity
…is the first time this conference will be held in Africa, to ensure participation from African delegates. The conference will take place in person, or you can join via live streaming, from 29 May – 1 June 2022. WCRI will monitor the developments closely and will follow all recommendations of WHO and the South African health authorities. The conference will be relevant to Research…