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In the news: November Digest
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SpotOn London 2012: Q&A with Dr Ginny Barbour
Leading up to the session on academic misconduct and fraud at SpotOn London, on 11-12 November, COPE chair Ginny Barbour did a Q&A for Nature. See here:… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Authorship for sale
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Medical Communications Forum: Trust & Transparency
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…To contact any member of the COPE team, please use our contact form. Natalie Ridgeway Executive Officer Natalie joined COPE in…- Event
Workshop: Introduction to publication ethics
…highlighting common issues encountered by journal editors. Using real cases brought to COPE by members, Trevor and Anubhav will ask the audience how they would respond, and talk through the different routes they could take to resolve issues. Anubhav Pradhan - Event
COPE webinar: Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
…href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/difference/timezone/utc">Find out what time this is in your country REGISTER TODAY --> For some years, COPE has been discussing the fundamental relationship between publication ethics and research ethics, publication ethics being part of research and research publishing. COPE has recently launched… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: September 2018
#PeerReviewWeek18 Peer Review Week 2018, is here! And the question PRW is asking us all is “What does diversity mean to you?” Do you remember the first Peer Review Week, back in 2015? From that ambitious start the PRW conversation evolved via “ - News
In the news: May 2018 Digest
…-new-peer-review-problems-this-time-at-the-bmj/">https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2018/04/uncovering-new-peer-review-problems-this-time-at-the-bmj/ Data and reproducibility A bumper month for discussions of data and reproducibility. First of all, a useful article explaining how to determine whether sparse-data bias may have influenced the results of an article one is reading, and what to do if you suspect it is present. - Event
COPE Lightning Talk: AI
…intelligence (AI) Joining us to share their expertise are Marie Soulière, Frontiers open access publisher and COPE Council member, and Nishchay Shah, Cactus Communications. Nishchay Shah Nishchay will discuss… - News
In the news: October Digest
…intolerance. The authors surmise in the abstract that the editors at times have trouble aligning their beliefs and practices. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/leap.1259 Peer review Elsevier's Jeroen Baas and Catriona Fennell, both analytics experts, found that about 1% of 55… - News
In the news: June 2021
…misbehaviours. This article describes the work being carried out by the Centre for Journalology, which researches, teaches and performs outreach on metascience, the use of scientific techniques to study the research process itself. Intellectual Property A - News
In the news: September 2020
…href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1325#.X1VWkyNqGmo.twitter" target="_blank">pressures and incentives for academics that motivate them to publish in predatory journals? Authorship Authors who have changed their name can now - News
Nature Publishing Group wins libel case
Nature Publishing Group has won the libel case brought against them by Mohamed El Naschie, former editor of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (CSF) regarding an article published in 2008: ‘Self-publishing editor set to retire’. Read more on the judgement - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Introduction to publication ethics
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In the news: January 2021
…about half the time. The authors argue that new techniques are necessary in the peer review process to identify these fake images. Open access Starting in January 2021, Springer Nature is offering German authors the ability to