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Seminar 2022: Book wars
…in materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for the American Physical Society for nearly 24 years in their editorial office. Dan has been involved in all aspects of publishing including peer review, production, distribution, and personnel and financial management of journals. Book wars: the impact of the digital revolution on Anglo-American… - Case
Excessive self-citation in a book chapter
The case concerns an introductory chapter in a book. The publisher was first contacted about potential misconduct as part of a broader investigation into an academic who was a coauthor on an introductory chapter in a book. The publisher's subsequent investigation identified excessive self-citation in the work (one of the coauthors is named as an author on 12 out of 16 referenced works).… - News
In the news: May & June 2022
…science discusses whether peer review has a role in uncovering scientific fraud. Data The Force 11 Research Data Publishing working group has developed recommendations for the responsible handling of cases related… - Case
Compromised peer review system in published papers
On noticing a high volume of submissions from corresponding author A, editor X flagged up concerns with the preferred reviewers being suggested and their comments. Author A had in most cases suggested the same preferred reviewers for each submission, preferred reviewer accounts had non-attributable email addresses, comments were being returned very quickly (within 24 hours) and were often… - News
Comments please: framework for editors when requesting patient consent for publication in small cohort studies
…the study. Please send any comments to Shehnaz Ahmed. Deadline for comments: 24 February 2017 COPE guidance: Journals' best practices for ensuring consent for publishing medical case reports: For more guidance on the general… - News
In the news: January 2021
…concerns about negative repercussions about the results. Image manipulation A lab generated fake western blot images using Generative Adversarial Nets (GANS), an artificial intelligence method, and then performed a case study of how accurately researchers could detect the fake images, which was… - News
Data and reproducibility: The role of research institutions
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In the news: October 2020
…="https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/journals-books/books/diversifying-readership-through-open-access" target="_blank">usage of open vs non-open access books and found that OA books were dowloaded 10 times more often, and cited 2.4 times more often, than non-OA books. A systematic search of "vanished" open access journals, using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, discovered 176 open access journals that vanished from the web (2000-2019).… Publication ethics issues in AHSS: New study
…encountered by 55% of journal editors. Journal editors felt least confident in dealing with data and/or image fabrication issues (24%), fraudulent submissions (23%), and intellectual property and copyright issues (21%). There were no significant differences in the concerns reported by journal editors from different subject areas, or regionally, suggesting that many of the issues are…- Translated resources
Proceso de revisión por pares comprometido en artículos publicados: caso
Al percatarse de un alto volumen de envíos del autor A, el editor X mostró su preocupación sobre los revisores sugeridos por el autor y sus comentarios. El autor A había sugerido en la mayoría de los casos los mismos revisores para todos los envíos, los revisores sugeridos tenían direcciones de correo electrónico imposibles de verificar, los comentarios se devolvían muy rápido (en 24 horas)… - Event
COPE 25th anniversary seminar, 2022
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/daniel-kulp">Dan Kulp, COPE Chair, and Director of editorial development for journals, American Chemical Society (ACS). He received his PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for the American Physical Society for nearly 24 years in their editorial office. Dan has been involved in all aspects of publishing including peer review, production,… - Case
Inappropriate authorship on students paper
A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study which was a final year student's project was submitted as an original article to our journal on 30 April 2011. On initial review it was obvious that it was conducted by students and written by them, but the list of authors had the supervisor as the first author, followed by 13 students. The supervisor, who was also the corresponding author, wa… - News
Case discussion: gift authorship
…href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4548528/">Elizabeth Wager et al (Peer J, 2015) identified 24 prolific authors each publishing at least 25 articles per year. In contrast, the threshold of 72 papers per year (>1 every 5 days) was used as a baseline for “hyperprolific authorship” in a report by John Ioannidis et al in Nature in 2018. The report provided… Presentations
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Guest article: Research misconduct
…="https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/topics/research-and-innovation/concordat-research-integrity">include a range of additional behaviours. One grey area is around questionable research practices. These are a range of behaviours that result in the preferential reporting and publication of findings that are deemed interesting. This distorts the published record so that important negative data remain unpublished and hidden. The term questionable… - Case
Handling conflicts of interest between authors and academic 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 t… The ethics of audit and research
…Ethics must be about resisting the escape from unwelcome thought. Comments Definitions Audit looks to see whether clinicians and practitioners have applied what research has found. For example, a patient needs to be operated on within 24 hours of fracturing the neck of the femur: an audit would want to know if that…Projects Funded
…href="https://www.wcri2010.org/index.asp">Second World Conference on Research Integrity in Singapore, 21-24 July 2010, where we plan to start the Delphi process for discussing the definitions of authorship across scientific disciplines. Research on the authorship/publication practices of editors in their own journal has been completed and the manuscript has been accepted for publication. Details of the published article will…- Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2022: Relationship between universities and publishers
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/daniel-kulp">Dan Kulp, COPE Chair, and Director of editorial development for journals, American Chemical Society (ACS). He received his PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for the American Physical Society for nearly 24 years in their editorial office. Dan has been involved in all aspects of publishing including peer review, production,… - News
Citations: Link, Locate, Discover, Connect
…Factor denominator.” Learned Publishing 24: 133-137. https://doi.org/10.1087/20110208 [4] http://ipscience-help.thomsonreuters.com/incitesLiveJCR/10667-TRS.html The JIF for 2017 is calculated as the ratio…