- Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2015: Altmetric.com: who, what, when, where and why
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The study that may or may not already have been published
A study purported to have been stimulated by a systematic review that had already been published in the journal. The new study included 15 patients who had been treated in one arm of a study and 15 who had been treated in another arm. The peer reviewers noticed that the original systematic review included 31 patients from the same authors. The editor contacted the authors asking them to make… - News
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
Concerns regarding image manipulation and inconsistent figure legends
A journal received a complaint from readership about manipulation of images of gels and also of some figures which had been published as part of a thesis with different sample legends. The authors were contacted to provide explanations for the observed inconsistencies. The authors provided full images and then an official expert analysis, but the Editor-in-Chief did not feel that these… - Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2015: Why do we need metrics, and what can new metrics offer editors and journals?
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Suspected systematic data fabrication
The editor received correspondence from a third party suggesting that a paper published in 2005 in the journal by four co-authors contained suspect data. The suspicion was based on the observation that in three separate figures all error bars were identical. Indeed, the third party subjected 32 publications from the same group of authors to independent statistical appraisal and concluded that 2… - News
Facilitation & Integrity 2023, a year in review
…-peer-review-process">How to recognise potential manipulation of the peer review process COPE flowchart Paper mills research COPE & STM research report and recommendations Systematic manipulation of the… - Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2015: Let’s all agree on what we’re counting and how: Progress on standards for new metrics in scholarship
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Guest editorial: Tackling paper mills
…to address published articles with known, and unknown, issues. Remaining vigilant, learning from our peers, and sharing our experience remain a priority for us as we continue to develop and implement best practice. Related resources Addressing concerns about systematic manipulation of the publication process COPE guidance… - Seminars and webinars
Australian Seminar 2014 Ethics of data publication: same or different?
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COPE Forum: Thursday 3 March 2022
…href="https://publicationethics.org/case/possible-peer-review-manipulation">Possible peer review manipulation 4. Updates to cases previously brought to the COPE Forum Request to remove an author post-publication Change of corresponding author after… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Authorship for sale
…How do we deal with the growing problem of paper mills? The webinar panelists discussed the prevalence of paper mills, the systematic manipulation of the publication process by individuals or organised groups to guarantee publication, often through sale of authorship or manipulating article acceptance. This session is one of - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum: 13 November 2017: Self-Citation: where's the line?
…that the present work is novel, and unrelated to past works. But on the other hand, too many citations to previous works by the same authors are also inappropriate, considered to be a potential attempt to manipulate an author’s own h-index. So where’s the line? What is a peer reviewer’s responsibility in terms of calling out self-citation? While… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2022: Managing paper mills
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/jigisha-patel">Jigisha Patel, opening the session with an update on some of COPE's activities around paper mills. Jigisha summarised the recommendations from the COPE and STM research on paper mills undertaken in 2022. Jigisha gave an update on the recently revised Systematic… - Event
COPE Forum: Tuesday 15 December 2020
…discussion and advice among attendees on members' cases submitted in advance (see cases below). #C0PEForum Forum agenda and minutes 1. Update on COPE activities by the… - Case
Surprising results and a new area of research
A paper described an unusual approach to disease modulation in an experimental animal model. The apparently clear cut findings were somewhat surprising. The authors also seem to have used high and low power photomicrographs of the same tissue sections to illustrate completely different experiments within the study. This occurred twice in the paper. Furthermore, this particular area of study was… - News
Guest article: Detecting integrity issues
…href="https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts/systematic-manipulation-publication-process">Systematic manipulation of the publication process, COPE guidance 2022 The evolving relationship between universities and scholarly publishers, COPE Seminar Keynote address 2021… - Event
COPE Forum November 2017
…agenda for the COPE Forum on Monday 13 November: 1. Update on COPE activities by the Chair 2. Forum discussion: Self-citation: where's the line? 3. New cases 17-11 Authorship dispute unsatisfactorily resolved by institution (JM) 17-12 Potential figure manipulation with corresponding author uncontactable (JM) 17-13 Unhelpful institution report… - Case
Problem with figures
…sections)....However, the major problem in this figure is that the two panels are only partially identical. ...These observations raise the concern that the pictures have been intentionally manipulated, and I believe that this concern should be brought to your attention.” (2) We contacted the authors without revealing the concerned reader's identity and without implying any judgment as follows: One of… - Case
Retraction because of scientific misconduct even if the conclusions are sound?
A journal was alerted to potential image manipulation in four papers published over the course of twelve years by the same corresponding author. The journal contacted the corresponding author who provided some raw data for some of the papers but not all of them, and was not able to explain the apparent manipulation (which included, in one paper, a duplicate image from a paper published in…