- News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: August 2018
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/geraldine-pearson">Geri Pearson and Chris Graf - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: February 2019
…/File:Hellogoodbye_logo.svg COPE co-chairs Chris Graf and Geri Pearson - Event
Medical Journal Editors: Short Course 2019
This international workshop (in its 23rd year) is designed to help editors ensure their journals achieve the maximum impact with the best research. The programme looks at the world of publishing, attracting (and keeping) good authors; ensuring quality and increasing… - 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… - Flowcharts
Changes in authorship: Addition of extra author – before publication
…class="resource-download-inline__container"> Flowchart Changes in authorship: Addition of extra author - before publication PDF 94… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: August 2019
…European colleagues there. Best wishes, COPE Chair Deborah Poff… - News
Letter from COPE Vice-Chair: February 2020
…virus is key to saving lives. Please stay safe, especially our colleagues in areas hit hardest. Best regards, COPE Vice-Chair Daniel Kulp Revised principles of transparency and best practice released
…including more specifics on describing peer review practices, publication ethics policies, and author fees. As with previous versions, it emphasises practices achievable by journals regardless of resources. This version has been thoroughly reorganised for easier use," commented Margaret Winker, MD, WAME Trustee. About COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, WAME The- Case
Attempt at dual publication
…comparison found the manuscripts to be approximately 90% the same, with entire sections duplicated. Differences comprised slightly poorer language usage in the recent submission, some single sentence updates, one extra paragraph in one section and some changes to the conclusions. Some sections from the published review had been deleted to fit our shorter word limits. No reference to the earlier publication… - Case
Competing interests question
…declaration of interests sufficient in its current form? Seeing that approximately 1% of evaluators declare any competing interests when probably 90% (again, a rough guess) have interests with regards to the articles they evaluate, would you have any suggestions on how we could improve the situation?… - News
In the news: November 2018 Digest
…findings. COPE Council member Deborah Kahn Read November Digest: Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: July 2018
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/chris-graf">Chris Graf and Geri Pearson - Case
The results that were too good to believe
A study made it a long way through the peer review process before one of the statistical advisors said that the results seemed “too good to be true.” The authors were asked to send in the original data, which the statistician analysed. He remained very concerned about the data. The authors were notified and the journal asked the university to investigate. Has the editor done the right thing? - Event
Pakistan Association of Medical Editors (PAME) Conference
COPE Council member, Behrooz Astaneh, with present a talk about COPE, as well as moderate a workshop on publication ethics, at the Pakistan Association of Medical Editors (PAME) Conference in Lahore, 26-27 April. The programme can be found here. … - Case
Habitual plagiarist
Author F published a single case report (CR1) in my journal. A few months later, I received a letter from author G who claimed that the case published by author F was a verbatim copy of his case report published in another journal H. On comparison of the documents it was obvious that CR1 was an exact reproduction of the article of author G. More than 90% of the sentences overlapped in both… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: May 2018
…Unported license, used here with attribution to Ananian) COPE co-chairs Chris Graf and Geri Pearson - Case
Suspicion that signed informed consent forms are forged
…for educative purposes. The editors should also consider whether there is enough evidence to suggest research misconduct, in which case the authors’ institution should be informed (in neutral terms, with the authors potentially copied). The editors may find COPE’s guidance on - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: June 2019
…scholarly integrity. We hope you all enjoy the summer whether on vacation or using the extra time to work on scholarship. COPE Chair Deborah… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: July 2020
…href="https://www.stm-assoc.org/standards-technology/peer-review-taxonomy-project/">standard taxonomy for peer review. Wishing you all the best. COPE Chair Deborah Poff, CM, PhD …