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Data and reproducibility: The role of research institutions
…view, see the Education Subcommittee focus on Data and Reproducibility. Kelly Cobey, Senior Clinical… - Case
Effect of the British Human Tissue Acts on biological monitoring
Biological monitoring is a common procedure in assessing the dose of contaminants from a workplace atmosphere. It may include measuring a contaminant, such as lead in blood, or a resulting metabolic product, such as mandelic acid in urine following styrene exposure. A related process is using adhesive tape to strip the surface layer of a small area of skin to measure the dermal deposit. Clear… - Case
Supervisor publishes PhD students work
The PhD supervisor and a co-supervisor published a paper. The paper contained the work of a PhD student; approximately 90% of the paper was from the thesis. The PhD student found out when the paper was electronically pre-published. He contacted the supervisor. The supervisor’s first reaction was “How did you find out”? The supervisor did not want to include the PhD student as an author since he… - Case
Image manipulation as a general practice
As managing editor, I view all manuscripts before they are assigned to an editor. Within a 4 week period, I have detected five manuscripts where photographs of either gels or plant materials were used twice or three times in the same manuscript. These manuscripts were immediately rejected. However, we are not convinced that these are cases of deliberate misleading of the scientific commu… - Case
Institutional review board approval required?
We have a query regarding institutional review board (IRB) approval for a paper in production. The paper reports on a 2 year follow-up and cost-effectiveness evaluation for a treatment programme. A previously published paper reports on the original evaluation of the treatment programme. The authors have not obtained IRB approval for either body of research. The initial research wa… - News
In the news: November Digest
…different visions of research data sharing: from the publishers’ and the research community’s perspectives https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/10/14/competing-visions-research-data/ A new academy has launched providing free online research data management professional skill… - Case
Duplication of data
It was brought to our attention that there is considerable overlap and duplication of data in two papers that a group of authors submitted and that were subsequently published in two different journals.The control groups are identical in the two papers although it is claimed that they were matched controls.The data in several columns in the tables are identical; one figure has been… - Seminars and webinars
Image manipulation
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…alongside the fostering of professional debate in the wider community. COPE has over 14,000 members worldwide from all academic fields. COPE is a global organisation with Trustees and Council Members representing editors, publishers, universities, and research institutes, from various academic disciplines. COPE position…- Event
COPE Lightning Talk: Text recycling in research writing
17 April 2024, 13:00-14:00 BST / UTC+1 COPE Members only Clarifying the legalities for authors and editors Over the past six years, the Text Recycling Research Project has conducted empirical studies to better understand text recycling in the research context and used what they’ve learned to develop… - News
Peer review resources
…="https://publicationethics.org/resources/translated-resources/spanish-all-flowcharts">Spanish, and Turkish, while 14 are available in Persian. There are six Forum discussion topics related to the COPE Core Practice “Peer Review Processes”: - News
Upcoming CrossRef webinars
…Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013Time: 8:00 am (San Francisco), 11:00 am (New York), 3:00 pm (London)Moderator: Rachael Lammey Registration Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013Time:… - Case
Possible breach of reviewer confidentiality
Soon after rejecting a paper—after it underwent peer review but before discussion at the manuscript meeting—the author wrote to tell me that he was asked questions “about the manuscript” at a presentation at a national meeting. The author stated: “A member of the audience addressed questions to me from a copy of the manuscript, and not from the talk I gave. I had to ask him to say nothing furth… - Case
Institutional review board approval needed?
A graduate student submitted a paper to a journal and noted that in her country, unless the research is directly medical, institutional review board (IRB) approval is not required or completed. The journal has a policy of requiring IRB approval on any human subjects’ research. This study was looking at practitioners and their work with students having a particular diagnosis. The editor r… - Event
COPE Forum: September 2023
…href="http://publicationethics.org/resources/forum-discussion-topics/peer-review-models">welcome your comments to add to the discussion. 3. New cases 23-13 How to handle offers of promotion of authorship for sale 23-14 Concerns over the withdrawal of a complaint … - News
In the news: February Digest
…in order to minimise the stress and discomfort of those L2 speakers as well as tips for the L2 speakers. For our increasingly globally interconnected work, she provides some great background and useful ideas. Presentations
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In the news: January 2019 Digest
…href="https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/12/14/artificial-intelligence-peer-review-assistant-aira" target="_blank">https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/12/14/artificial-intelligence-peer-review-assistant-aira Allegations of misconduct UK universities are testing the potential of software using forensic linguistics and machine learning to detect ghost-written essays as a deterrent to students using these services. - News
In the news: April 2018 Digest
…style="color: rgb(40, 60, 70); font-family: Graphik, "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, "Apple Color Emoji", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(250, 248, 247);">CRediT). The statement includes recommendations for research institutions and societies The National Academy of Science (NAS) is maintaining a website that lists those journals that have adopted some… - News
In the news: February 2022
…pandemic rapidly developed, massive research outputs were published in preprint servers and peer-review journals. Neither venue performed flawlessly and the research community look for ways to improve the processes. This preprint describes 14 principles, clustered around four broad themes: Focused, Appropriate, Specific, Transparent…