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A case of parallel publication?
Paper A appeared in a foreign language journal, together with an English abstract. Paper B was submitted to us, and one of our referees alerted us to the similar content. Closer inspection, including retrieval of the original foreign language manuscript and review by a deputy editor with a working knowledge of that language, and inspection of the tables by the editor and another editor,… - News
New Website goes live!
…login, making it more convenient for users to access our resources. Some areas will still require you to log-in, these include: submitting a case for COPE Forum, auditing your journal, and the eLearning course (due Q2 of 2011). We do hope that you find the new website both appealing and useful, and we welcome your feedback. Please send us any comments you have via the - News
Welcome to new COPE Council members
Following our recent elections, we're delighted to welcome six new Council Members to COPE. Each of our Council members brings their own experience, knowledge and skills to help us all work towards improving ethical practice in the publication of research in our community. Eleanor Gendle Executive Editor at The Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK - Event
COPE Forum: July 2023
COPE Members: join us for the COPE Forum where participants discuss publication ethics issues submitted by Members. The Forum will begin with a discussion on Best practices for guest edited collections before we ask participants for advice on Members' cases. - News
4th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics, May 2011
4th International Conference on Information Law and Ethics 2011, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 20-21, 2011 Organized by: INSEIT/Ionian University/Macedonian University/Thessaloniki Law School ICIL 2011 is sponsored by the International Society for Ethics and Technology (US), the Institute for Legal Informatics (Germany), the International Center for Information Ethics… - Case
Ethical approval and parental consent
It was agreed that the editor should pass his concerns onto the UK and US institutions. Although the paper was withdrawn, the editor still has a duty to pursue the issue and possibly there is also a case for obtaining the original data. The editor should formally ask the US institution to investigate the fact that the study may have been unethical. If no response is forthcoming, the editor… - Case
Ethical approval for a study
…human health. We asked the authors to tell us which ethics body would provide oversight for their research. The authors thanked us but did not provide the information we asked for. We were worried that human research had been done without ethical approval and tried to find out more about the research study. (Because this was only a presubmission enquiry, not very much information was included.)… - Event
Update on publication guidelines and insights from AMWA, EMWA and ISMPP
…href="http://www.amwa.org/">AMWA) and the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA). More information can be found here or on the ISMPP website http://www.ismpp.org/… - News
COPE Forum: 9 September 2015
The next COPE Forum meeting is on Wednesday 9 September, 3pm–4.30pm (British Summer Time) at The Montcalm London Marble Arch, 2, Wallenberg Place, London, W1H 7TN The agenda and materials are now available to download (PDF… - Event
Peer review week 2020
…href="https://publicationethics.org/peer-review-workshop-2020">virtual workshop with break out groups to discuss real cases raised by COPE members to identify issues in peer review and how to handle them. COPE usually hosts workshops face to face, so this is a new format for us. We hope to run more online workshops in the near future.… - Case
Grounds for retraction?
The co-author of a paper has contacted us about a paper he published 5 years ago together with a researcher who has now been convicted of serious professional misconduct by the GMC for research misconduct. The co-author is worried that the paper he co-authored may also be fraudulent. The research was in two parts. The first was analysed by a doctor not convicted of research… - Case
Fabricated illness: a case that cannot be published under current guidance
A preschool boy had a biopsy to confirm a condition from which he subsequently made a complete recovery. Later, he and his younger brother were reported by their female carer to have developed a possible recurrence and this looked likely on near-patient testing. At each review their carer urged us to undertake further biopsies on them both, but we did not feel that this was necessary. - News
Letter from COPE Vice-Chair: February 2020
…membership and create more sources of revenue to sustain our mission beyond 2023. We intend to use these years to broaden our membership and develop new resources that will be attractive to a greater breadth of disciplines and to university and institutional members. This growth will allow us to establish more sources of revenues that will sustain the organisation well into the future. This document… - Event
EASE virtual conference: Editors and editing in a time of crisis
…will be asking what have we learned, and what lessons can we take away to help us in the future? The programme has been developed to be as interactive as possible, so that experiences of editors can be shared, and the views of members exchanged.… eLearning
…revising the modules on a regular basis. The eLearning package is only available to COPE members so you will need to log in before accessing the eLearning modules here. Contact us here if you have forgotten your username.…- Webform
COPE authorship workshop 10 February 2021
…able to attend the workshop. You will receive an email to confirm your registration. A link to join the workshop will be sent the day before the event. If oversubscribed, a waiting list will be set up. We ask that you let us know if your plans change and you cannot attend so that we can allocate your place to someone else. Cases and workshop… - Webform
COPE authorship workshop 24 February 2021
…receive an email to confirm your registration. A link to join the workshop will be sent the day before the event. If oversubscribed, a waiting list will be set up. We ask that you let us know if your plans change and you cannot attend so that we can allocate your place to someone else. Cases and workshop format The - Case
The case of a physician in private practice offering an experimental intervention
…all patients went into remission. He did not compare this new therapy against any standard therapy. It is unclear from the physician’s letter to us whether the patients knew that this was an untested experimental treatment, or that they were essentially in a trial. The physician made no mention of whether he obtained informed consent from his patients. He made no mention of ethics committee… - Webform
Journal membership application form
…New application form Our new application form for journal membership is now online. Please contact us if you experience any problems with the new form. Eligibility: Applicants must have been publishing for at least… - News
Guest article: Inclusion in Scholarly Practice
…research. What materials constitute evidence in our fields, and why? And we can better interrogate how the premises of our findings may also reflect bias. Why have we framed issues and even fields the way we have? Looking at these factors also helps us to get to question of who is included. In my own discipline of history, for example, we have seen how expertise is often cast (sometimes literally cast,…