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In the news: January 2019 Digest
…opinions include Bernard Rentier’s blog “Open Access: is Plan S heaven or hell ? How about giving it a dispassionate look?” https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2018/12/10/open… - News
Building an international register of ongoing systematic reviews: have your say
…published in The Lancet. In order to arrive at an internationally agreed minimum data… - 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:… - News
COPE Digest: Publication Ethics in Practice. October 2014 (Vol. 2, Issue 10)
The latest issue of COPE Digest: Publication Ethics in Practice is now available on the COPE website. Click here to read.… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2013: Good practices from 10 years of addressing student plagiarism
…Download presentation: Good practices from 10 years of addressing student plagiarism [PDF,1300KB]… - Seminars and webinars
Trends and issues in publication ethics
…issues in publication ethics and COPE is working with other organisations to find industry-wide solutions. Read an interview-style article with Dan Kulp in a themed section of CASAD's official journal Science Bulletin: Chinese language edition, the 3rd issue 2022. Watch webinar - News
In the news: August
…well‐documented to be flawed, JCR should stop reporting it and replace it by the more appropriate median citations per article, median citations per review and median citations per other type of article, also excluding journal self‐citations." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10… - Seminars and webinars
Good Publication Practice 2022
December 2022 Dr Trevor Lane, COPE Trustee and Council member, was invited to deliver a presentation introducing COPE’s mission and resources at the 2022 Forum on Good Publication Practice, held virtually on 2 December 2022. Hosted by the University of… - News
In the news: April Digest
…Integrity Principles with 9 best practices to achieve them. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-019-00094-3 Bias A Holmes and S Hardy continue their deep dive to describe the effect of gender, assessed in about 80% of the time for both reviewers and authors using Genderize.io on naming order in… - News
Reports of COPE/BMJ meeting on research misconduct
Initial reports of the meeting on research misconduct organized jointly by COPE and the BMJ have been published in the BMJ and also in Nature which has also published an - News
In the news: April 2020
…raw data. Twenty authors withdrew their submission and 19 provided insufficient data to support the results. The editor makes an argument that lack of data is a contributor to the reproducibility crisis. https://molecularbrain.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13041-020-0552-2 A… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: February 2022
…10 May. Hope to see you, virtually, there. Once again, COPE will be supporting the World Conference on Research Integrity, in May this year, as a Rhino sponsor. The conference's overarching theme is “Fostering research integrity in an unequal world”. The conference will be a hybrid event with… - Event
7th World Conference on Research Integrity
The 7th World Conference on Research Integrity will take place Cape Town in 2022 with the theme 'Fostering Research Integrity in an Unequal World'. COPE are 'Rhino' sponsors of this event. Sponsors support the event and keep it affordable to encourage participants from a wide range of countries and, as this… - News
COPE Forum: 9 December 2014 meeting
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Tuesday 9 December 2014, 9–10.30am (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. The agenda and materials can be downloaded here (PDF 709kb). The invitation to join the webinar is below. We can accommodate up to 100 attendees,… - News
Paper mills in the news
…-linked-to-a-paper-mill/">expressions of concern published by Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) in relation to 992 structures in its database which they discovered were linked to articles identified as products of a paper mill. Another Retraction Watch article from February interviewed Adam Day, a data… FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: Sharing of information among editors-in-chief regarding possible misconduct
Recent high profile cases of research misconduct have relied upon the sharing of relevant information among the Editors-in-Chief of the journals concerned during the months and years leading up to the final settlement of the cases (see http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28…- Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2015: Altmetric.com: who, what, when, where and why
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In the news: January Digest
…Predatory Publishing Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y Allegations of… - News
COPE member survey 2019: we need your feedback
…survey which should take no longer than 10 minutes. Begin the survey We look forward to receiving your feedback and thank you in advance for taking part. With kind regards Deborah Poff COPE Chair Natalie Ridgeway COPE Executive Officer… - News
In the news: May 2021
Each month, COPE Council members find and share publication ethics news. This month the news includes articles on peer review, preprints, open access, and more. Authorship This paper published in the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology and aimed at educating postgraduate scientists…