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COPE Forum: Monday 11 February 2019
…"Diversity and inclusion in research publishing". Deadline to register: Friday 8 February - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 12 March 2013: Text recycling
…consensus and consistency on the issue, editors at BioMed Central produced some guidelines. These guidelines were posted on the COPE website and members were invited to comment, and the topic was discussed at the COPE Forum on 12 March 2013 Read more comments on text recycling posted on our website before… APAME 2013 Tokyo
…APAME 2013 Tokyo Asia Pacific Association of Medical Editors (APAME) Convention 2013, Tokyo, Japan Date: 2–4 August 2013 Venue: Japan Medical Association (JMA) Auditorium, 2-28-16, Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8621, Japan COPE will hold two 90 minute sessions on the afternoon of 3 August during the annual congress of the…- Event
ISMTE Asian-Pacific Conference
…href="https://publicationethics.org/cope-asia-pacific-workshop-singapore-2018">half day workshop, in collaboration with ISMTE, on Wednesday 28 March 2018, at the Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay, 177A River Valley Road, 179031 Singapore. The theme of the workshop is "Publication ethics". Editors, publishers, authors and all those interested in publication ethics are welcome to attend. - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: September 2022
…href="https://mailchi.mp/publicationethics/cope-digest-june-2022">Read COPE Digest newsletter, June 2022, in which we launch the paper mills research report with STM and invite you to join the discussion on Dealing with complaints about the integrity of published research.-->… - News
Forum discussion topic: Data Sharing
The topic for discussion at the next Forum (12 February 2016, 3.00pm GMT - more details to follow shortly) is ‘Data sharing’. Data sharing is increasingly viewed as an essential step in improving research transparency and reproducibility. There has been a lot of discussion on the imperative for data sharing in the biomedical arena, particularly of publicly funded research. As a result, there… - Case
Re-publication of peer reviewed articles as translations
…="https://publicationethics.org/search?t=duplicate+%28duplicate%29+publication&type%5B%5D=Flowcharts&sort=score">COPE’s flowcharts on duplicate publication includes a statement on translations: 'ICMJE advises that translations are acceptable but MUST reference the original.' In this case, if one version is designated as the original and the translated version follows, only the translated one would include a footnote… - News
COPE's eLearning course relaunched
…making it easier and quicker to access and progress through each module. There are now five interactive modules, providing advice and support to editors and publishers. The five modules cover plagiarism, falsification, fabrication, authorship and conflicts of interest. - Event
COPE Forum: dates for 2018
…(GMT) Deadline for submission of cases for the February Forum: 12 February Submit a case… - Event
COPE Webinar: Allegations of Misconduct, April 2019
COPE is hosting an hour long webinar around the theme ‘Allegations of misconduct’, on Friday 12 April 2019, 4-5pm (British Summer Time). Our speakers are: Susan Garfinkel, Assistant Vice President for Research Compliance, Ohio State University, Ohio Tara… - Event
ALPSP: How Publishing Ethics Can Nurture Trust in Scholarly Publications
…How Publishing Ethics Can Nurture Trust in Scholarly Publications The Association of Learned & Professional Society Professionals are delivering this course on Tuesday 8 March and Wednesday 9 March at 09:00-12:00 (EST), 14:00-17:00 (GMT), 15:00-18:00 (CET) Overview A wide range of ethical issues can arise in academic publishing. These can be caused… - Case
Should we always follow the decisions of ethics committees?
The editor has written to the authors of the article and awaits their answer. The editor is considering perhaps consulting some international experts on this topic for their advice. Update (February 2009) This was an investigation which was accepted by the local ethics committee, and a professor of anaesthesiology was among… - News
1st COPE South American Seminar – Brazil, Monday 12 November 2012
…"Correcting the literature" Costão do Santinho Resort, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil COPE is pleased to announce its first seminar in South America, to be held on Monday, November 12 (8:30 am to 5 pm), in Brazil. The meeting will take place during the annual meeting of the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC), at the Costão do Santinho Resort, Florianópolis, 300… - News
Artificial intelligence in the news
…href="https://iblnews.org/chat-gpt-at-capacity-due-to-its-massive-traffic/">registrations are currently suspended because of demand), both have been busy with talk of the - Event
COPE Australia Seminar
…is themed "Levers for transparency: from funding through research to publication". The seminar will look at the various ways transparency can be promoted in research from the perspective of the funder, institution, researcher and publisher, exploring new ideas and ways to promote transparency now and into the future.… - Case
The anonymous critic
A letter containing details of a case report was submitted in February 1999. The authors were from Japan. After peer review and revision, the case report was accepted and a proof was sent to the authors. Two anonymous letters were then received, one on April 29 and another on 12 May, both from Japan. Both letters claimed that the author “has prized honour above everything else” and that he had… - News
Paper mills in the news
…events which have highlighted individual cases, and offer insight and guidance in tackling the problem. First, we start with the joint COPE and STM Paper mills research report, published in June 2022, in collaboration with Maverick Publishing Services. The report uses data from publishers as well as interviews with key staff members,… - Case
Plagiarism in a case report
The whole discussion section of a submitted case report was almost identical to the discussion section of a previously reported, similar case written up by another group of authors in another journal. The only difference lay in the patient details. While the other paper had been referenced in the case report, the authors of this case report had not indicated that the whole discussion was identi… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2019: COPE retraction guidelines
…allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KoWtpO5dx28" width="100%"> Presentation by Howard Browman Howard Browman, COPE Council, gives a review of COPE's updated retraction guidelines (PDF) The scientometrics of retracted articles and a publisher's perspective of… - Seminars and webinars
Universiti Malaysia Seminar: Authorship
July 2022 Dr Trevor Lane, COPE Council member, was invited by the Faculty of Science and Natural Resources of the Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia, to give an online seminar about authorship issues. Titled “Publication Ethics and Authorship Dispute”, the hour-long event was targeted at university researchers aiming to publish their research in peer-reviewed journals,…