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Uncertain treatment of four patients following previous published experiments
…patients with high blood cholesterol,including the familial form,and had found that oral administration of a choline and ascorbic acid mixture would lower the blood level more successfully than did clofibrate...the blood level of cholesterol would initially rise before it eventually fell, suggesting that cholesterol was being mobilised from the tissues into the blood stream prior to excretion.… - 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. - News
Case discussion: Editing peer review comments
…href="https://publicationethics.org/events/cope-forum-friday-6-march-2020">COPE Forum on 6 March. With this in mind, we highlight two cases from the COPE archive: Case 97-08 likely predated the online editorial management systems that allow confidential comments for the editor to be separated from their comments for the author. The submitter of the case… Job vacancy: COPE content writer
…Digest newsletter, usually the Chair, but can be another Council Member, to add colour/evidence to the letter. This will involve internal and external research. Write summaries of COPE guidance with key points to launch the guidance to our community and to use in monthly communications. Write HTML content pages of the PDF guidance: - to make them more user…- Case
Author requests for certain experts not to be included in the editorial process
…explaining that his paper disagrees with the published guidelines, and therefore he believed that the experts who contributed to the guidelines would “likely to be very negative and possibly biased”. The author stated that these experts, including some members of the editorial board, may have a conflict of interest. The author stated that his request is permitted by COPE. The author was asked by… - News
COPE North American Seminar August 10, 2016 'Ethics in peer review'
COPE is delighted to announce its 7th North American Seminar, which will be held in collaboration with ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), on Wednesday August 10, 2016, at the Hilton Philadelphia City… - News
Obituary: Patrick Barron, COPE Council member
…the country to outside. He was also founding editor, editor, or editorial board member of many journals. More of Patrick's extensive contributions over the past 50 years can be read here. It was a pleasure to have known and worked with Patrick and he will be missed. Deborah Poff, COPE… - Event
Association of Research Ethics Committees (AREC): Promoting excellence in ethical research in human beings
The one day conference is aimed at anyone involved in research which requires review, whether as a student, supervisor, sponsor or REC member. For further information, including the full programme and registration details, see here.… ‘Ask COPE’
In a new initiative, COPE will be hosting a monthly ‘Ask COPE’ service . Available as a member benefit, members can ask a publication ethics related question of Council in real-time via our webinar facility. At a set time and date each month, you can sign up to Ask COPE. There will be two members of Council available, and you will be given a 20 minute slot for your…- Event
Next COPE Forum
COPE's next Forum will be on Tuesday, 4 March 2014, at 3-5pm (GMT). The Forum will be by Webinar.… - News
Reports of COPE/BMJ meeting on research misconduct
…b.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120119">editorial. A full report of the meeting, including a consensus statement, will be published soon on the COPE website and in the BMJ.… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2013: Posters
…">Poster: Fraud and deceit in medical research [PDF 22KB] Poster: Authors’ awareness of publication ethics: An international survey [PDF 25KB]… - Case
Query triplicate publication?
_ The independent reviewer confirmed that there was 85–90% overlap. _ The editor wrote to the authors who agreed that the papers were identical but thought that it was such a good study that it deserved to be read widely. However, there had been no cross-referencing of the papers.… - Event
COPE Forum: 8 July 2014
The next COPE Forum will be on Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 9am (British Summer Time). The Forum will be by Webinar.… - Event
COPE Forum: 23 September 2014
COPE's September Forum will be on Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 3-5pm (British Summer Time). The Forum will be by Webinar.… - News
In the news: July Digest
…="_blank">https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/ugc-move-to-thwart-pay-and-publish-trash-culture/story-AP0BFFrbNuL1mN5WNbgCjI.html Peer review An experiment on peer review conducted by researchers at Harvard Business School, found that almost 50% of reviewers of medical funding applications changed their own ratings… - Case
Academic freedom
…-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html">ICMJE guidelines for authorship, all authors agree to be accountable for the work. If the student cannot be accountable for the work because of the potential professional risks to them, do they qualify for authorship? The Forum were told that the student did most of the work on the paper and would like to be an author, and wants the… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: June 2018
…href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.92.7.1079" target="_blank">paper published in 2002, London noted that the system tends to be driven by a concern about procedural correctness rather than a substantive approach to ethical reasoning. These drivers can be applicable in the world of publication ethics. Is this concern for procedural correctness a barrier to ethical oversight or an excuse for not applying ethical reasoning to activities… - Case
Doubts over the exact nature of a drug being used in a study
…a single application only, for stability and sterility reasons. The company had not supplied either active or placebo preparation to the author in question. The author refers to his version of the preparation and a placebo in one of his previous publications in which an “analogue” of the drug is mentioned. What is the exact nature of the drug being used in these studies? Is it actually the company’s…