- Event
Project Management for Publishing
…sessions using real project scenarios provided by delegates as well as providing publishing case studies as examples of what works and what doesn’t. More information & book… - News
COPE Forum 24 April 2017
…Register for 24 April Forum Taking part in the Forum allows members to contribute to, as well as learn from, the cases being discussed. We present the same cases at both forum to allow more of our membership to attend. Register as soon as possible as the webinar is limited to 100 attendees. - News
Hong Kong University join COPE's pilot initiative
…the future can offer consistent support and advice to institutions in handling publication ethics issues. Our pilot partners have helped revise the COPE Guidelines for Peer Reviewers and we are undertaking research to further understand the needs of institutions. … - Event
SciELO 20 Years Conference
…adoption of preprints, maximizing the transparency of research evaluation and the flow of scholarly communication, and searching for more comprehensive systems for assessing articles and journals. More information & register… - Event
Scholarly summit, 2020
Deborah Kahn, COPE Council, will share our recent study into publication issues in the arts, humanities, and social sciences and COPE's work in these disciplines at this summit for editors and society partners of Taylor & Francis. The Summit will be a day of discussions exploring the theme ‘Fit for the future: Building… - News
Information sharing about intentional research misconduct
…COPE partner with UKRI on fact-finding workshop COPE and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are co-hosting a fact-finding workshop on sharing information between journals (publishers), research organisations and funders, where that information is about allegations or cases of intentional research misconduct. - Seminars and webinars
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… - Case
The disappearing authors
Some time after a single authored research article was published a journal received a letter pointing out that the same article had been rejected by another journal because of unresolved authorship and acknowledgement issues. At that time the paper had 12 authors. The correspondent said that the single author had a patent application related to the topic of the paper. This was declared as… - Case
No control group, arbitrary dosage, undiagnosed condition
In summary, we have a case series, with no control group, of patients with different conditions treated for an undiagnosed underlying condition with an arbitrarily prescribed dosage of a drug which is not registered for treating any of the conditions nor the undiagnosed underlying condition. I rejected the paper for publication and let the author know that the ethics committee of the journal wi… - Case
Compromised peer review (unpublished)
…After it was determined that the reviewer suggestions were faked, a previous publication by the same authors with the same ‘fake’ reviewers was identified. Following the recommendations of COPE regarding a recent similar case discussed at the COPE Forum (case number 12-12), all of the authors were contacted to ask if they could supply more details of the suggested reviewers, but they have not… - Case
Request to remove author from submitted manuscript due to academic misconduct
…initial steps of the current COPE flowchart for removing an author before publication. This flowchart only refers back to more strict instances of scientific fraud or misconduct such as plagiarism or ghost/gift writing, so that it is not clear whether it would be even fair to initiate… - Case
Journal refuses to correct the record
…a retraction and a letter submitted from the author group admitting a "disagreeable mistake". Journal X publishes infrequently, so I checked over the past 12 months for the retraction and published letter. The notice and letter were never published and the article is still available through the journal's website and SCOPUS. I contacted the editor of journal X in October 2012 to ask him if he planned… - 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
…href="https://publicationethics.org/sites/default/files/u7140/COPE_Preprints_Mar18.pdf" target="_blank">Discussion document on Preprints PDF 588 KB Key points Preprints are a form of publication which enable pre-peer reviewed articles to be disseminated… - Research
CrossCheck guidance: an analysis of typical cases of plagiarism in different disciplines 2010
…Xinxin Zhang, Meiqing Jin, Chunjie Zhang). Update The results of part of this research were presented at the CrossRef 2011 Annual Meeting, USA, 15 November 2011 (download the presentation, (PDF 745kb). The purpose of this survey was to investigate journal editors' use of CrossCheck to… - News
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… - Forum discussion topics
Ethical considerations around book publishing
…href="/file/991146">Key differences between books and journals, and sample cases - Case
Dealing with cases with culturally offensive content
…The Forum agreed that further guidelines will be useful. The forthcoming COPE guidelines will address some of the issues reviewed here and other resources can be found below: Simone Ragavooloo, Helen Macdonald and Kamran Abbasi, ‘Acting on historically offensive content in BMJ’s archive’, BMJ 2022; 378:o1829 doi… Website Terms and Conditions
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