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Next COPE Forum 6 September 2011
…Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), 5-11 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8SH (http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/how-find-us/how-find-us). All COPE members are welcome to attend the meeting, whether or not they are presenting a case. Download the agenda and materials - Case
Plagiarism and possible fraudulent publication
…second paper claims to report the results of examinations of 30,000 people and is therefore the largest epidemiological study in the field. The editor of Journal A, who is an expert on the issue described, suspects that the study could not have been done with the financial or logistical resources available to the authors. The authors include at least seven whose institutions are nowhere near the… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: April 2022
…href="/policies/submitting-guest-editorial-or-opinion-piece-cope">submissions from our members to foster communications about issues of interest to you. In May, COPE has several events. COPE will be hosting a virtual Seminar to introduce membership for universities and research institutes. The keynote will be given by Professor John B Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and author of… - Event
COPE European Seminar 2019
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Peer review week 2022: webinars
As part of Peer Review Week 2022, COPE hosted the webinar Practical steps for managing paper mills. The speakers give practical tips on how to manage systematic manipulation of the publication process, at scale, and describe their experience of dealing with paper mills affecting their journals, - Case
Removing a retracted article from a third party site
…original article was published under a CC-BY license with the authors as the copyright holders. The article is available in full as a pdf on website Z. This is not one of journal A's indexing partners and we believe it may have been downloaded from journal A's website before retraction and uploaded to website Z. Numerous email takedown notices from the publisher to website Z have not been… - Event
COPE Forum February 2018
The first COPE Forum of the year, where we discuss cases submitted by members, will take place on 26 February from 4-5.30pm (GMT). Taking part in the Forum allows members to contribute to, as well as learn from, the cases being discussed. Deadline for submission of… - Event
Open Access and Medical Publishing: ISMPP
ISMPP invites COPE members to attend a special 90-minute ISMPP U educational webinar, Open Access and Medical Publishing, on Wednesday, January 30, at 11 am EST/4 pm in the UK. The webinar is open to all and free to COPE members. Expert speakers representing different stakeholder views – industry (Shire), funder (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), publisher (Wiley and American… - 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,… - Event
COPE Forum: December 2023
…Forum is: Tuesday 21 November 2023. --> Forum agenda On Tuesday 5 December 2023 the COPE Forum will be held at 10:00-11:30 (GMT / UTC) 1. Update on COPE activities Update on COPE activities by the Chair. 2. Forum discussion topic: Claiming affiliations We begin the COPE Forum with a discussion on Annual Trustees Reports and Financial Statements
…Reports and Financial Statements 2022 Trustees report and financial statements 2021 Trustees report and financial statements 2020- News
In the news: May & June 2022
…risking research integrity? Covid-19 Public health restrictions in the jurisdiction of where research is performed during the pandemic should be observed and editorial processes should affirm this. Peer review processes A historian of… - Event
Symposium on Challenges in Research Integrity
Health Ethics, Law and Policy Group (HELP) invite you to attend the symposium on Challenges in Research Integrity To be held on Thursday, 8 May 2014, 1.00pm – 4.30pm Lecture Theatre 1.01, Level 1, Health Sciences Lecture Theatre Complex, Flinders University Bedford Park Campus (see map at - News
February Forum: agenda and discussion topic
The first COPE Forum of the year will take place on 26 February from 4-5.30pm (GMT). We begin with a discussion on Expressions of Concern, followed by an update on existing cases. The cases and discussion document are now available with the Forum agenda. You are invited to make comment on the discussion document whether or not you are attending the Forum. - Event
Scholarly publishing in a connected world: Turning disruptions into opportunities
Jigisha Patel, COPE Council Member, is speaking at ISMTE's Global Event "Scholarly publishing in a connected world: Turning disruptions into opportunities" at 11am on 2 November 2022. In a session on research integrity and ethics, Jigisha, and Sabina Alam, will be exploring the impact of the rise in paper mills and the impact it is having on journal editorial offices and the academic… - Event
Update on publication guidelines and insights from AMWA, EMWA and ISMPP
The International Society of Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) invites members of COPE to a special educational webinar focused on medical publication guidelines, on Wednesday, January 28th, 11:00am – 12:30pm EST. The webinar will feature representatives from ISMPP, the American Medical Writers Association ( - News
COPE Forum: 9 September 2015
The next COPE Forum meeting is on Wednesday 9 September, 3pm–4.30pm (British Summer Time) at The Montcalm London Marble Arch, 2, Wallenberg Place, London, W1H 7TN The agenda and materials are now available to download (PDF… - Event
6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), Hong Kong, 2019
…transparency in research. COPE Council members are speaking at the following: Monday June 3, 2019 11:00 – 12:30 Symposium (SY2) Responsible authorship (LG.08) Charon Pierson (Convener) COPE Past Secretary Tracey Bretag, COPE Council; and University South Australia Adelaide Siu-wai Leung, University of Macau, Macau Trevor Lane, COPE Council;… - Case
The author who wasn’t an author
A paper was submitted crediting three authors. The paper was sent to one of the journal’s regular statistical reviewers without noticing that she happened to be the second author. She wrote back to say that she had not been involved in writing the manuscript, nor had she seen this paper before. She did say, however, that she had supervised the computer input of the questionnaire data and that…