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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. … - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: September 2022
…pleased by the interest we have received from institutions around the world and fully welcome their participation in future conversations around publication ethics. So, once again, enjoy Peer Review Week and I hope to see you at many of the events. Dan Kulp, COPE Chair - Event
COPE Forum: September 2023
COPE Members: join us for the COPE Forum where participants discuss publication ethics issues submitted by Members. The Forum will begin with a discussion on "Peer review models" before we ask participants for advice on Members' cases. REGISTER TODAY Submit a case to… - 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… - Event
APAME 2013 Tokyo
COPE will hold two 90 minute sessions on the afternoon of 3 August during the annual congress of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME) in association… - News
Authorship, a blunt tool: "20 Jahre Research Integrity in Deutschland Was hat sich verändert? Wie geht es weiter?"
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COPE integrity workshop 2021
…alt="Photo of COPE Council Member, Tara Hoke" src="/files/styles/140_wide/public/council/tara_hoke_sm_smarch.jpg" style="float:left; height:122px; margin:3px; width:90px" />Tara Hoke is General Counsel for the American Society of Civil Engineers, publisher of 35 peer-reviewed journals in the subject of civil engineering research and practice. Tara is… 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
Conflicts of interest between authors and editors
Recently, we have received a manuscript submitted by our Editor in Chief (EiC), with almost all of the Editorial Board Members and some of our authors of previous submissions as co-authors. In dealing with this we noticed that some of our previous published articles currently have conflicts of interest between the authors and the Academic Editor (AE). Our peer review policy states that… - News
Wiley launch new ethics guidelines
Wiley has launched the second edition of its Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics: A Publisher’s Perspective. In the new edition, guidance has been added about whistle-blowers, animal research and clinical research, particularly around clinical trial registration. The press release can be read in full - News
In the news: January 2021
…economics, medicine, physics and psychology were surveyed about various peer review issues. 49% reported checking all manuscripts for plagiarism, 61% allowed authors to recommend for or against specific reviewers, and fewer than 6% used a form of open peer review. 91% identified at least one circumstance in which it was acceptable for… - News
In the news: February 2022
…conference with >1300 attendees from >80 countries in December, free of charge, that explored DEI issues, discoverability of research from areas outside Europe and North America, Research Integrity among other topics. Recorded content will be made available. DORA listed their own, and other organisations' progress in 2021 toward the - 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 - News
Research integrity and how to buy a Persian carpet: TOP Guidelines, part 2
…research is communicated, like perhaps preprint servers and data repositories) to display, so research readers can check the knot count, fibre, and colour and then build-upon a piece of work. For you, now, the draft article from that TOP workshop is ready. We share it here with… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: August 2019
…European colleagues there. Best wishes, COPE Chair Deborah Poff… - 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
Duplicate submission or self plagiarism. Is the author to blame?
…proceedings. The reviewer sent us the article downloaded from the conference website highlighting the overlapping paragraphs, which was nearly 80%. The journal wrote to the authors asking for an explanation. The authors stated that they had submitted an abstract of their work for participation in the international conference. The abstract was accepted on the condition that they submitted the… - 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