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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. - 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… - Case
Publishing complications and patient safety
…environment in the country of origin, including regulations on informed consent. As there are 120 cases, are there also 120 authors? If there are many authors, it may be easy to anonymise the cases, especially if the authors could be added in alphabetical order to help disguise identities. Otherwise, it is difficult to anonymise the data and retain essential elements for learning purposes.… - News
Creating and implementing research data policies: COPE webinar report
…consistently implemented. Quick polls that were held during the webinar revealed that most of the audience had experience of journal data policies as a publisher or editor (85%). Only 9% had not had any experience of journal data policies. Of those who had, most had encountered policies that encouraged data sharing (80%) or required a data availability statement (80%). Fewer had encountered mandatory… 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- News
Upcoming CrossRef webinars
…4:00 pm (London)Moderator: Rachael LammeyRegistration Introduction to CrossCheck In this webinar you will learn about the innovative plagiarism screening service and… - News
COPE at Sense about Science workshop. Peer review: the nuts and bolts
…="https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/cope-ethical-guidelines-peer-reviewers">ethical issues. “Peer review is amazing” Sam Illingworth Sam Illingworth (Senior Lecturer in Science Communication, Manchester Metropolitan University) explained his own experiences of peer review, and although there are frustrations, peer review can be an amazing, positive experience helping researchers… - 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… - Event
ALPSP Workshop, Publication Ethics: Fraud and misconduct
This is a practical course to help you understand your legal and ethical obligations and implement a successful diversity and inclusion strategy in your workplace. Diversity and inclusion have never been higher on the news and social agenda than at present, and this course will… - Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar 2018: Creating and implementing data research policies
…href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected], which will answer queries within two business days. So far, 1091 journals have adopted data policies, mainly types 1, 2, and 3. Varsha Khodiyar (Data Curation Manager, Open Research Group, Springer Nature) described how the journal Scientific Data implemented its type 4 research data policy. This required adding advice on… - 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: March 2018 Digest
…/10.1177/0192623318754792" target="_blank">http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0192623318754792 While henceforth Nature journals will require authors to disclose non-financial, as well as financial conflicts of interest - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: July 2018
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/chris-graf">Chris Graf and Geri Pearson - News
In the news: April 2020
…December 2019, the Preprints I/O Workshop explored ways to expand and leverage the preprint platform. https://medium.com/@cziscience/strengthening-the-open-science-ecosystem-through-preprints-9e87969631ba This is a report from a survey of 44 platforms that host… - 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 - 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…