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North American Seminar 2019: Women also know history
Karin Wulf, Professor of History and well-known “Chef” in the Scholarly Kitchen introduced us to the terms “manels” and “whanels” (all male panels and all white panels) and provided some suggestions to help identify a more diverse group of experts from which to draw authors, reviewers, editorial board… - News
In the news: December Digest
…Open Access An addendum to Plan S has been proposed for comment that includes more details about transformative agreements by which non-OA journals will agree to "transform" to OA platforms. This proposal includes 10 mandatory criteria and 3 recommended ones. Deadline for comments is Monday 6th January 2020, 9.00 CET. - Forum discussion topics
Artificial intelligence (AI) and fake papers
…various ethical questions surrounding the use of AI for both fake paper creation and the production of papers based on valid research. We aim to discuss the aspects of authorship, bias, originality, and using AI tools to counteract AI fraud. During this COPE Forum (23 March 2023) we started a discussion about these ethical issues, which COPE will use to develop a discussion document on this… - News
Nuffield Council on Bioethics report on the on The Culture of Scientific Research in the UK
We welcome the report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics: The Culture of Scientific Research in the UK. It is timely, coming as it does when there is increased scrutiny of the scientific literature, and importantly an increasing recognition of the… - Discussion documents
Preprints
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Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: June 2018
…related to ethical oversight: flowcharts, past cases, and discussion documents, which include the topic of preprints and publication ethics issues in the social sciences. While there is extensive literature discussing specific dilemmas and responses to the ethical oversight process, what are the barriers to the process? Intense system… Website Terms and Conditions
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Seminar 2021: Reducing the inadvertent spread of retracted science: taxonomy considerations
…for implementation strategies in various institutional contexts and workflows.This is one of nine sessions as part of the COPE Seminar 2021. - Event
ISMPP webinar: Graphical Presentation of Data in Medical Publications
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Job vacancy: COPE web manager
…strategy. The role is responsible for the development and maintenance of COPE’s online product and voice, and ensuring that the website continues to serve the needs of its members and all other users. In addition to typical content management in the Drupal back end of the site, this person will also work closely with COPE’s technical partners to implement new… - News
Obituary: Patrick Barron, COPE Council member
We are very sad to inform you that Patrick Barron, COPE Council member since 2016, has passed away. We understand that Patrick passed away peacefully in hospital after being… - Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2019: Ethical challenges in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
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Concerns over the withdrawal of a complaint
The journal received multiple complaints from two ‘whistleblowers’ in country A regarding the methodology presented in an article published in 2021. The Editors began an investigation into the paper, using evidence provided by the whistleblowers. The Editors felt that based on the provided evidence, an investigation should be carried out. The authors, who were also from country A, were made awa… - Case
Handling undisclosed peer reviewer conflict
Some authors from a company recommended a peer reviewer on submitting their manuscript, who was then asked to review the manuscript. This reviewer recommended acceptance without change. One other reviewer recommended major revision (a methodological reviewer not a content expert) and the third reviewer recommended rejection. The editor found it unusual for a review to recommend acceptance witho… - News
Research Integrity, Sixth Report of Session 2017-19 from the House of Commons
…Core Practice #1 specifically addresses policies and processes required to adequately address allegations of misconduct. The institutional investigations are an essential piece of the evidence in understanding what happened. Improving understanding and working relationships between journals and institutions where research occurs has been… - Webform
COPE integrity workshop 2021
…(BST), 11:00-12:30 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)--> COPE is delighted to announce an online workshop which looks at the lessons that can be learnt from issues of concern raised to COPE's Facilitation and Integrity subcommittee. At the workshop we will: discuss the framework within which the Facilitation and… - Case
Request for addition of new authors
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. If appropriate justification is given, it is not… Text Recycling: Forum discussion topic March 2013
…Read the summary of the text recycling Forum discussion,held on 12 March 2013 ----- Self-- Case
Duplicate submission of a paper
A paper concerning the prevention of coronary disease in primary care was received. This examined the practical consequences of following some recent national recommendations and suggested that the recommendations were unrealistic. A few weeks later another paper from the same authors was submitted, which the editor who first read it thought was probably an inadvertent duplicate submission of t… - Case
Editor as author in own journal
This journal specialises in one form of treatment. It is the only Medline listed journal that is widely accessed in Europe by people who use this form of treatment. No international journals provide a suitable alternative. In the USA, the one journal most similar to this is much less specialised and hardly ever accessed in Europe. The journal editor is a leading researcher in this form…