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Plagiarism by a possible predatory journal
An article published in a journal in 2023 appears to have been plagiarised in a possible predatory journal but the publishers are unable to get a response from the predatory journal or affiliated Institute. The article (Article A) was submitted to Journal X in 2022 and published early in 2023. The authors reached out to the Journal after finding that another article dated from 2021 (Art… Resources and further reading
…Education (ICME-2013), 2-6 October 2013, Balaclava, MauritiusKusal Das, International Advisory Group 2nd International Scientific Practical Conference "World-class scientific journal: problems, solutions, preparation and inclusion into citation indices and reference databases", 24-26 September 2013 and Innovative…FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…DOI:10.1186/s41073-017-0030-2 Porter J, Jick H. (1980). Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics. New England Journal of Medicine 302 (2): 123–123 DOI:10.1056/NEJM198001103020221 This will be discussed at the start of the next COPE Forum on Monday 26 February 2018. Please do leave any comments below, whether or not you are planning on joining the meeting Comments are reviewed and, on…- News
Diversity in Peer Review: Survey Results
…nominating/selecting members for its peer reviewer pool (25%) …has diversity policies for selecting peer reviewers when evaluating individual manuscripts/applications (26%) …provides in-house training to promote diversity and inclusion in peer review (13%) …provides training to potential peer reviewers, to promote diversity in its peer review pool (14%) • Additional… - News
In the news: April 2018 Digest
…or all of these recommendations (http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/Transparency_Author_Contributions.html)http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/02/26/1715374115 CODE OF ETHICS Code of… - News
In the news: April 2020
…direction varies. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/02/26/guest-post-an-open-agenda-european-funder-approaches-to-open-science/ UK universities and Wiley have struck a 4 year deal which will give UK-based corresponding authors the option to… - News
In the news: November Digest
…publishing choices. https://thinkchecksubmit.org/2019/10/17/think-check-submit-looks-forward-to-collaboration-on-new-research-programme/ Allegations of misconduct An investigation by King’s College London has found 26 of… Common ethical and editorial dilemmas of author misconduct: how should we respond?
…"Evidence of misconduct" "Probably no misconduct" Not applicable 1997 16 11 0 5 1998 33 30 2 1 1999 27 20 3 4 2000 32 26 6…- News
In the news: August 2018 Digest
…include that it is uneven across disciplines and stakeholders; that there is a lack of tools to make this seamless and that the benefits of FAIR will not be attained until it is practiced across the board. - News
In the news: April Digest
…journals and the peer review and editorial processes in order to encourage diversity within the Regional Studies Association. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/03/26/gender-bias-in-peer-review-opening-up-the-black-box-ii/ On International Women’s… - News
In the news: October Digest
…target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/npjurbansustain/authors-and-referees/rds Predatory publishing The US National Science Foundation has awarded researchers at Texas Tech University a grant to develop a training program for researchers to learn to identify and avoid predatory publishers. The goal is for the program to be free and online. - News
In the news: March 2021
…href="https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2020105889" target="_blank">way to promote accountability and transparency by authors. A 3-level self-evaluation of image reproducibility is promoted to avoid simple rule-breaking about images. Research integrity Equator Network has launched a Chinese EQUATOR Centre with the… - News
Paper mills in the news
…research investigators, and Retraction Watch to understand the scale of the problem. The report provides some definitions and characterising behaviours, considers what motivates authors to use them, and offers some recommended actions. In July, Retraction Watch highlighted the - Forum discussion topics
Claiming institutional affiliations
…that, to The Research Organization Registry. More guidance on affiliations would be welcome since it has become so important as an indicator of research output, quality, credit, and prestige. Further reading - News
Diversity, equity, inclusivity and accessibility: COPE commentary
…from 2-6 October. We will be releasing more details over the coming weeks, but in the DEIA session we hope to launch several new discussion documents on name change requests, historic content that is now deemed offensive, and author behavioural misconduct. These have challenged us to think deeply, sensitively, and collaboratively, and we look forward to opening up the discussion to participants.… Seminars
…Council) can be downloaded here. Stephanie Harriman [BioMed Central], posted a report on the seminar on the BioMed Central blog site, here. Scholarship recipients COPE awarded two…- News
In the news: December 2018 Digest
…href="https://www.ccn.com/ibm-looks-to-disrupt-scientific-research-on-the-blockchain/" target="_blank">IBM has a patent on using blockchain for open science. Individual components, such as research data, analysis, results, and post-data analysis will be block-linked. The idea is that this should speed research, make it more reproducible. Predatory publications In a potentially cautionary tale, - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2021: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…Committee – 46 Reviewers – 26 Learned Society – 17 What action should be taken offensive or discriminatory content is discovered? The responses to this question are all in favour of directly linking a clear note or statement of concern to the paper. Retractions, expressions of concern and an Editor’s Note, are all typically directly linked to a paper, with notices… - Forum discussion topics
Author behavioural misconduct
…research misconduct?, Accountability in Research, Volume 26, Issue 2, pages 123-137 Kuo M. (2017) Scientific Society defines sexual harassment as scientific misconduct on science.org, 20 September 2017 Back to top Comments from the COPE Forum, December 2022…