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Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (Portuguese)
…o Diretório de Revistas de Acesso Aberto-DOAJ https://doaj.org A missão do DOAJ é: - curar, manter e desenvolver fontes de informação confiáveis sobre periódicos acadêmicos de acesso aberto na web; - verificar se a inclusão em listas está de acordo com padrões razoáveis; - melhorar a visibilidade, disseminação, descoberta e atratividade de… - Forum discussion topics
Predatory publishing: next steps and where do we go from here?
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What does peer review mean in the arts, humanities and social sciences?
…include adding non-native speakers to editorial boards to advise from a high level perspective in an important way; editors entering retirement offering mentorship outside the publication process; for society journals, pairing society members internationally with published mentors and see if they can meet the authorship criteria Post your comments and feedback below. - News
In the news: April 2018 Digest
…servers varied little from their final poublished versions, suggesting the commercial publishers’ added value is limitedhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00799-018-0234-1 Peer review fails to prevent publication of paper with unsupported claims about peer review A recent publication,… - News
In the news: October-November 2021
…available in 40 languages. Research misconduct Including investigators on grant applications who intend to offer little or no effort on subsequent work if the grant is awarded is labled "false investigator" and was admitted to by > 20% of respondents in… - News
Facilitation & Integrity 2023, a year in review
…F&I cases are classified by the concern raised by the presenter. So far in 2023 there have been 10 types of concern which have attracted five or more cases. These are: Handling of retractions and expressions of concern (20 cases). Concerns about Integrity of published work, including potential manipulation of data or images (14 cases)… - Forum discussion topics
Bias in peer review
…href="https://publicationethics.org/resources/seminars-and-webinars/dei-in-practice-panel">Driving diversity, equity, and inclusion to shape the future of publication ethics, COPE Seminar 2021 Diversifying editorial boards, article, 2021 Your comments Anyone (members and non-members) can comment on this discussion. Comments are reviewed and, on approval, added below.… - News
In the news: July 2021
…tenure decisions. This index can be gamed by excessive self-citation and there are instances of authors adding references at the revision stage of the peer review process after there is likely to be scrutiny of the reference list, producing in an “h-index factory“. The author proposes for these, and other reasons cited in the post, that the community of researchers and publishers need to “ - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2022: Managing paper mills
…19:05-33.20 Sarah Elaine Eaton, COPE Council Member, and Editor of the International Journal of Education Integrity, explained the parallels between student contract cheating and paper mills, and how some of what we know about contact cheating can be transferred to our understanding of paper mills.There has been around 15 years of… Common ethical and editorial dilemmas of author misconduct: how should we respond?
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Case discussion: gift authorship
…href="https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(20)30591-6/fulltext#">Sengül Gülen et al (Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2020) found were positively associated with gift authorship in collaborative work. In that survey of 666 first-authors of Cochrane reviews published between October 2016 and December 2018, 41% of authors reported the existence of gift authorship in their reviews and 15% were… Subcommittees and working groups
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…scrutiny? The definition of clinical science is much broader than it was 20 or 30 years ago, and much of what we do now is about patients and how to treat them. It has to be scrutinised by an ethical body. This includes audits and anything else used to measure something that is important for patients. If we include this, should we then extend it to animal…Common editorial dilemmas: hypothetical cases
…conclusions, adding that your last letter to them stated you would accept the revision if they took into account the reviewer's comments, which they have done in full. Discussion The editor has already said s/he would accept with minor revisions, which had been done. Arguably the onus is on the editor to accept this article.…