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Pre-publication in a discussion paper series
…website so that the publisher has the right of first publication. The publisher stated that upon acceptance for publication, authors may deposit the abstract of their paper or an executive summary on this website. They said that in accordance with the publisher policy for online deposit of work, preprints or post-prints should only be deposited into institutional repositories or faculty websites… - Case
Duplicate publication
…assumed that two separate groups of patients had been studied. _ Publish a notice of inadvertent duplicate publication in both journals.… - Case
Authorship order in dual publications
Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. Consensus publications should be identical in all of the… - News
FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: Publication ethics issues in the social sciences
The Forum discussion topic on Tuesday 9 December is “Publication ethics issues in the social sciences”. Click here to learn more and please do leave your comments… - Flowcharts
Changes in authorship: Addition of extra author – after publication
COPE's guidance, as a flowchart, about the addition of an extra author after publication. Changes in authorship: Addition of extra author - after publication - Case
Dual publication
…not been plagiarised. _ The letter authors knew that their comments had been passed on by journal B. _ The editor felt that the authors of the letter would want their concerns published. _ The authors should be asked to respond to the issues raised by the letter authors about duplicate publication and then the editors should publish a notice of retraction. _ If the article in journal B was—as the… - Case
Does co-publication of an editorial constitute duplicate publication?
A publisher co-published an editorial across its portfolio of six journals. Co-publication was clearly flagged in each journal. Subsequently, there was a discussion on PubPeer on the editorials, with one comment suggesting that co-publication is the same as duplicate publication. The publisher believes that editorials that do not report on the results of research and… - Case
Query triplicate publication?
Fourteen days after publication in a journal an email was received from a reader indicating that two closely related papers had already been published recently, one in the same month as the current paper, and one five months previously. Close examination of the papers by the editor indicated that there was considerable overlap between these three papers. The editor sent the three papers to an… - Seminars and webinars
Publication ethics in an open world
…4th World STM Journal Forum: Publication ethics Dan Kulp, COPE Chair, was invited to speak at the 4th World STM Journal Forum organised by the Chinese Association of Science & Technology (CAST), July 2021. Dan spoke about the some of the current issues around publication ethics in the industry such as: authorship issues; fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism; image… - Case
Duplicate publication or salami publication?
…the editor to decide if the paper is sufficiently novel to warrant publication. How much extra value is there in the second paper?… - Case
Redundant publication?
The paper discussed the use of drug X in condition Y, submitted to journal A. It is a double blind randomised controlled trial, presenting the 1 year result in 129 women. It finds that drug X helps in condition Y. The authors published a similar paper in journal B, 2 months before submission of this paper to journal A. The journal B paper studied the same question in 601 women with a 2 year… - Case
Duplicate publication allegation
Our journal (journal A) received a complaint from a 'Clare Francis' alerting us to a case of duplicate publication involving our journal and another (journal B). The article in journal A was published first, but submitted after the article in journal B. Clare Francis requested that the article in journal A should be withdrawn as it is duplicate publication. However, the article in journal… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2014: Guidance on research and publication ethics in Europe
…Download presentation: Guidance on research and publication ethics in Europe [PDF,1214KB]… - Case
Attempted redundant publication?
Seven authors sent us a paper on hospital infections in children. We sent the paper to two reviewers, one of whom sent back a detailed comparison between the paper submitted to us and a paper published in another journal in 1996. The reviewer’s comments were: “Unfortunately, there is strong evidence that the study and its results have been published previously, comments with some…