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COPE Forum: Monday 11 February 2019
…work 19-02 Dispute arising from peer review of a rejected comment and published correction 19-03 Possible plagiarism 19-04 Suspected plagiarism 4. Updates 18-08 Scientific misconduct claim from a whistleblower where the institution will not investigate 18-13 Self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing 18-15 Peer reviewer contacted… - Event
COPE Forum: Monday 11 November 2019, 4pm (GMT)
…topic whether or not you are planning on joining the Forum. 3. New cases 19-12 Appropriate scope of review for retractions 19-13 Reproducibility of methodology 19-14 Removal of an author 19-15 Authorship dispute during review process 4. Updates on cases 19-09 Deceased author 19-08 Authorship issue related to misleading… - Webform
COPE authorship workshop 24 February 2021
…href="https://publicationethics.org/news/cope-authorship-workshop-2020">authorship workshop event page has details of the workshop format and Cases that will be covered. Alternative date This authorship workshop is also being held on 10 February 2021, 15:00 - 16:30 AM (GMT). You may only attend one of the dates. 10 February workshop is now full Your privacy When you register, COPE will collect your personal details… - Case
Duplicate publication
We were made aware of a double publication in our journal dating from 20 years ago. A paper which was originally published in French in another journal the year previously was translated and published in our journal. The editorial paperwork is long lost, however, the principal author is a member of our editorial board. They readily responded and explained that it was not uncommon at that time t… - Case
Erratum query
We have been notified that an erratum is about to be published on a Research article in Journal A, which is one of the key references supporting a Review article subsequently published in Journal B. All parties are agreed that the erratum (which corrects an oversight in reporting methodology) in no way affects either the data presented in the paper or the conclusions reached. Questio… - Event
COPE Forum: March 2024
…2024. Forum agenda Wednesday 20 March 2024, 14:00-15:30 (GMT / UTC) 1. Update on COPE activities Update on COPE activities by the Chair. 2. Forum discussion topic: Ethical considerations around watchlists We begin the COPE Forum with a discussion on - News
In the news: February 2022
…Research Network promotes best practice in research and improving research integrity as well as trying to support institutional researchers, rather than focusing on those who commit research misconduct. FORCE11 hosted a virtual… - Event
Online webinar series on good reporting of health research studies
…co-editor-in-chief of Trials and Founder of the EQUATOR Network. Time: 15:00 GMT (London) 10:00 EST (Washington, Ottawa) The webinar will last approximately 1 hour. Language: conducted in English only. Sound knowledge of the key principles of reporting various types of health research is crucial for researchers and professionals involved… - Event
COPE Forum: Thursday 14 October 2021
The 14 October 2021 COPE Forum will be held at 14:00-15:30pm BST (UTC + 1). - Case
Studies where there is no research ethics committee, or where committees disagree as to the need for approval
The editor of this journal, in common with other journals, requires that, where appropriate, studies published should have been approved by the relevant ethics committee. In some cases researchers have reported to the editor that they have found no committee willing to accept competence, or that different committees are taking different lines on which studies require approval. As an exam… - Event
COPE North American Seminar and Forum 2011
…background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Following on from the success of the North American COPE seminar and COPE Forum last year, we have decided to repeat the events, but this time on the West Coast of America. COPE will hold a COPE Forum on the… - Case
Registration of a randomised control trial
…be rejected. If the study is registered late, the journal should consider a declaration on the paper about why, and provide a guarantee to the journal that any related papers will be registered Related resources https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2016/04/15… Outcomes of editors' attempts to investigate research misconduct
…Plagiarism 7 2 2 2 14% Total (%) 79 16 (20) 15 (19) 23 (29) 36 (46) In about one in five cases, the individual was exonerated. But in about 20% of cases,…- Case
Retraction of article from 1994
Professor A and professor B has been in a dispute over a certain type of treatment for over 15 years. Professor A has accused professor B of killing a patient while he was (in professor A’s view) doing research on the patient without consent. Professor B has accused professor A of research and publication misconduct because he published a paper in journal X in 1994 that included a selected… - Case
Query about errata
Your retraction guidelines include comments about corrections. They also advise that notices of retraction should be linked to the original retracted articles. But, it is not 100% clear whether notices of correction (that is, errata and corrigenda, as opposed to retractions) should also be linked directly to/embedded in the origi… - Case
Retraction of article and accompanying editorial
The authors of a published article have asked to have an article retracted for internal policy reasons. However, we have solicited and published an editorial which accompanies this article and specifically references it within the text. We are unsure how to handle this. Question for COPE Council Does COPE have any policy or protocol for cases like this? … FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…clinical trial data—A proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. New England Journal of Medicine, January 20. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1515172 Vickers A J. (2006). Whose data set is it anyway? Sharing raw data from randomized trials. Trials 7; 15. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-7-15 Wager, E. (2016). Sharing data is a good thing. But we need to consider the…- Case
Editor manipulation of impact factor
…one of the attendees at the Forum. Questions such as these can be raised to obtain more specific information, for example, the question about citing papers in an issue in the editorial. There is generally a limit of 15% for self-citations but it might be possible for editors to calculate this so that they come up to but not over the limit. Summary of previous advice:… - Forum discussion topics
Predatory publishing: next steps and where do we go from here?
…was discussed at the COPE Forum on Tuesday 15 December 2020. Questions for the Forum Should COPE use its criteria for membership as an instrument to evaluate standards of scholarly publishing vehicles for the purpose of informing authors, peer reviewers, readers, scholars invited to serve on editorial boards, and universities evaluating scholarly productivity? … - Case
Allegation of fraudulent publication
Journal A published a paper in 2002. In 2004 the Editor of Journal A was contacted by a reader, who expressed his doubts as to the integrity of one of the authors associated with the 2002 paper. The reader suggested that the author in question had been involved in the fraudulent publication of a paper published in Journal B in 2001. The reader had noted that the article published in Journal…