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  • Case

    Salami publication

    …Salami publication is where papers cover the same population, methods, and question. Splitting up papers by outcomes is not legitimate. It is an editorial decision as to whether to publish or not: there is no ethical problem here. …
  • Case

    Ethical approval and parental consent

    A journal received a paper from a single author, attributed to a UK institution, in which 10 children were operated on using two techniques, each child having one technique to one side and one to the other side, at the same operation. The paper went to review, and neither reviewer spotted that this was a prospective surgical study on children, with no mention of consent or ethical…
  • Case

    Plagiarism and possible fraud

    to the co-authors’ head of institution as they seemed to have taken complimentary authorship. - The journal should retract the article if it felt that there was sufficient evidence to suggest fraud; but if not, it should certainly publish a notice of concern.…
  • News

    In the news: February 2021

    …University of the West Indies who said, “How much do we value those who risk a great deal in an effort to assure the availability of science for the value it brings to our world? Science is a source of evidence for myriad decisions in local and global life. When it is endangered, we greatly increase the chances of poor outcomes in those decisions.” This years awardees are Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the…
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    Guest article: Self-plagiarism in philosophy

    A quip heard in the hallways of some philosophy departments goes like this: when someone publishes a new book, a colleague says, “Congratulations! So, what are you calling it this time around?” With every witticism, there is some level of truth; my professional discipline of philosophy has been somewhat sluggish in addressing the problem of self-plagiarism. The term self-plagiarism is…
  • News

    Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: June 2018

    …target="_blank">Whicher et al, 2015), who is correct and how is this resolved? This month’s Digest focuses on Ethical Oversight, one of the core principles of COPE. We define it as all activities involved in publishing, from consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, and ethical conduct of research with animals and humans to the ethical handling of data. COPE has a variety of resources…
  • News

    In the news: January 2019 Digest

    …href="http://www.icmje.org/news-and-editorials/updated_recommendations_dec2018.html" target="_blank">http://www.icmje.org/news-and-editorials/updated_recommendations_dec2018.html Post publication discussion and corrections It is unusual for researchers to point to errors in their own published studies when they lose confidence in their findings, even though it would be beneficial for science for them to do so. This preprint describes a project to look at how
  • FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please

    …institutional research boards on the grounds that such approval is heavy-handed and inappropriate as a tool to evaluate their research. They conduct their research through community groups and avoid institutional approval. How should editors handle such studies and manuscripts? What should editors do when they receive manuscripts from Social Scientists who have completed the research without…
  • Webform

    COPE integrity workshop 2021

    …Member. in the small groups everyone has a chance to discuss the cases and express their views on how to resolve the issues arising from the discussion we then come back together where representatives from each group feed back key points raised. This is an interactive session so please come prepared to participate in the discussion. Workshop leaders
  • News

    Letter from the COPE Chair: January 2020

    …previously misidentified as predatory by different organisations and that there are sensitivities of various sorts on this topic. What we attempted to accomplish in the discussion included addressing questions such as: What is predatory publishing? What are the commonly occurring features of predatory publishing? How can we educate and raise the problems
  • Case

    Suspected image manipulation involving four journals

    …received by journal A from author X has suspected image problems, authors X’s recent publication history was examined. Similar possible gel issues along with a suspected image duplication relating to a photo of bacterial colonies were identified in three papers published in three different journals (journals B, C and D). Two members of editorial staff along with the editor-in-chief of journal…
  • Case

    Fraud or sloppiness in a submitted manuscript

    …with the authors about our decision to reject the paper. Confronted with this decision, however, the authors have no incentive to cooperate with us and to send us, for example, original data. Rather, they may blame the mess to an unfortunate confusion. Question(s) for the COPE Forum(1) We have decided to reject the paper but how does the Forum think we should now proceed?…
  • Case

    Author dispute over data presented in paper

    …The Journal would appreciate advice on how to proceed.…
  • News

    Guest article: Avoiding predatory publishers

    …damage their academic reputation. One response to the problem of predatory publishing has been compilation lists of journals and publishers to avoid. This appears, at first glance, to be a simple solution, but such lists are difficult to maintain and risk an inherent bias. They can also be subjective and include publishers that apply reasonable basic processes but lack resources for the best…
  • Case

    Possible malpractice revealed in a case report

    …and the editors decided to reject the case report, but felt that their duty as doctors had not been adequately fulfilled, but were unsure as to how to proceed. What should they do now?…
  • Case

    Author trap/fabrication detection

    This is how I dealt with an author who submitted a fabricated manuscript to my journal. A junior doctor submitted a paper about the use of a drug in a particular condition. Three expert reviewers were sure that the author did not undertake the claimed study, emphasising that the drug was not available in our country (Middle Eastern country) and it had not been registered for clinical…
  • Case

    Plagiarism in a case report

    _ This case provoked a great deal of discussion, but it was concluded that the chief executive had conducted a thorough investigation. _ But what was not clear was whether the editors had asked the authors to explain themselves before alerting the chief executive, which COPE feels they should have done. _ There are different cultural understandings of how duplicated material is handled.…
  • Case

    An accusation of racism

    …forwarded to the lead author. How should the editors respond now? Should the publishing group respond to this inferred accusation of racism?…
  • Case

    A case of salami slicing

    …a paper is rejected or withdrawn, the editor has a duty to follow-up any issues relating to suspected misconduct. The editor may like to explain this to the authors. It may be necessary to share the information with related journals, but the editor may need to assess the scale of the problem first by doing a search for other articles by the same authors and determining what other journals are…
  • News

    Letter from the COPE Chair: December 2020

    …events over the year. Most recently, Matt Hodgkinson spoke on behalf of COPE at the #ISMTEGlobal event on citation manipulation. Matt explored the ethics of citations, and how citation manipulation undermines research integrity, from excessive self-citation, to citation rings, coercive reviewers, and editors. How

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