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Ethical considerations around book publishing
…href="/file/991146">Key differences between books and journals, and sample cases - 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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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… - 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… - News
Diversity in Peer Review: Survey Results
… Proportional representation matching that of a discipline/community (21%) Equal proportional representation (12%) Other (4%), including:- substantial degree of non-homogeneity/heterogeneity- proportional representation at least matching that of the discipline/community- proportional to the diversity in published topics- integrity/competence/expertise is more… - Case
Omitted author
…International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE http://www.icmje.org/)) we can still, if all coauthors agree, add him as a coauthor. If he does not meet the authorship criteria then it would be possible to offer acknowledgement." The editor went on to highlight the ICMJE criteria as follows: (1) Substantial contributions to conception and design or… - Case
Where should journals escalate serious concerns about an institution or institutional review board?
A publisher received a submission to one of their journals that raised ethical concerns. The concerns were related to potential harm or undue risk for participants who may be vulnerable. The publisher reviewed the ethics approval statement, and the authors had met the journal’s policy requirements by prospectively obtaining ethics approval from their institution before beginning the rese… - Case
Duplicate articles due to DOI reassignment
The editors of Journal C have found that 15 of their recent articles have been assigned slightly different DOIs in the Online First and the final issue versions. This arose from administrative problems with the publisher’s production process and has resulted in duplicated articles in both spaces, and there may be other duplicate articles due to reassigning different DOIs. The editors of… - News
In the news: February 2021
…href="https://www.bmj.com/company/researchintegrity/consent-for-publication/" target="_blank">guidance for authors about obtaining consent for publication for research and articles involving human participants. Diversity and inclusion The Life Science Editors Foundation has announced Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Awards. The award provides free scientific or language edits… - News
Guest editorial: Data availability statements
…are to provide a venue for these opinions to be included in COPE conversations and to elevate issues that members are grappling with. The topics of the above guest editorial - issues of transparency, reproducibility, and accountability - are important ones. It should be noted that COPE Retraction Guidelines do not include… - Case
Reprimanded author plagiarizes again
A reviewer, R1, brought to our attention several suspected cases of plagiarism in paper A1, submitted by authors A. The main concerns were:— large parts of paper A1 resembled paper B submitted by a different group of authors B, with one of the most major changes being a change in the observation day;— large parts of a section were taken from paper C by author C, including an… - News
COPE position statement on inappropriate manipulation of peer review processes
…with publishers, publishing organizations and relevant national bodies to determine how best to address this situation in the longer term. Updates will follow as more information becomes available. We encourage anyone with information on these issues to contact COPE directly. Related resources - Discussion documents
Responding to anonymous whistleblowers, January 2013
…href="/file/9911">Responding to anonymous whistle blowers Document Responding to… - News
In the news: July 2020
…href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/peteraldhous/mario-molina-coronavirus-face-masks-pnas" target="_blank">concerns about peer review process Diversity and Inclusion The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a cross-publisher Diversity & Inclusion initiative to drive change in scholarly publishing. - Seminars and webinars
Handling a case of misconduct
…href="https://publicationethics.org/events/cope-seminar-2023">Publication Integrity Week 2023. Handling a case of misconduct. Publication integrity week 2023.