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1st COPE Asia Pacific Seminar 2011
…cases to be at the meeting, either in person or by telephone to present the case. Please submit cases directly to the administrator by 31 October 2011. The seminar is free for COPE members and $150 AUD for non-members. Non-members wishing to attend can contact the administrator for details on how to join COPE. Register here: - Event
COPE Forum: 3 August 2016
…rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Please register for the Forum by emailing our - Case
Withdrawing from authorship
…(http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html) all authors have responsibility for the data and agree to help in any investigation: “Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work… - Case
Withdrawal of paper at proof stage
…withdraw their paper. The editor would not want to publish an article if the author wants to withdraw it. The editor has no choice but to accept the author’s decision. The Forum recommended that the journal should review their internal processes to make sure expectations are clear in their communications with authors and revise where needed. COPE’s journal auditing tool (https://publicationethics.org… - Forum discussion topics
Bias in peer review
…aligns most closely with COPE Core Practice: Peer Review Processes, its impact is wider reaching. The explicit and implicit biases, or conscious and unconscious biases, of editors and peer reviewers could prejudice which manuscripts are reviewed or ultimately accepted for publication. As COPE member Cambridge University Press explains in their… COPE webinar: Current Issues in Peer Review
…peer review surrounding preprints? How could this relate to peer review by journals? What are the main issues in peer review that are brought to COPE for advice? Is there need for further guidance? Three guest speakers will present their views given their experience in these areas, and there will be an opportunity for questions from attendees. You can- Case
Possible self-plagiarism and/or prior publication
…details of this case a grey area (COPE Discussion Document: How should editors respond to plagiarism http://publicationethics.org/files/Discussion%20document.pdf), and that copyright and rights of author issues may apply. In summary, both co-editors of the journal consider that this case constitutes self-plagiarism and… - Case
Authors referring readers to an objectionable version of an article on a preprint site
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. This is a difficult and complicated question. If the… - News
Liz Wager discusses retractions in the BMJ
…-wager-trouble-with-retractions/">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2013/07/01/liz-wager-trouble-with-retractions/) This leads into COPE's guidelines on how journals and institutions should cooperate (Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases: guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)) and how, in this case,… - Event
COPE Forum: April 2018
Open to COPE members only. Our Forum, where we discuss cases submitted by members, will take place on 30 April from 4-5.30pm (GMT). Taking part in the Forum allows members to contribute to, as well as learn from, the cases being discussed. We will also be discussing Preprints: Continuing the… - News
COPE at Wiley research seminar, Japan
Trevor Lane, COPE Council Member, gave an invited plenary talk titled “Research Publication Ethics - Best Practices for all Stakeholders” at… - Event
ISMTE European Conference 2019
Chris Graf, COPE Past co-Chair, will speak at ISMTE's European conference themed "Working together through change". The COPE session, Change and constants at COPE, will look at new ethical challenges facing journal editorial and… - Seminars and webinars
WCRI 2019: Responsible authorship
…investigations, and legal issues faced by an editor attempting to resolve a dispute prior to publishing a paper. Read more on this panel discussion… COPE Privacy notice
…how we use it, when we share it with others, and how we keep it secure. This notice also explains your rights in relation to your personal data, and what to do if you have any concerns about how we process your personal data. This notice was last updated on 23 August 2023. Page contents Who we are Our contact…- Case
Conflicts of interest between authors and editors
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. COPE Council applauded the journal’s comprehensive COI… - News
Case Discussion: Ethics of non-active management of a control group
…Case summary Case 17-21 An article was submitted involving over 200 pregnant patients with a systemic illness (from 2010 to 2015) who were recruited and assigned to a control group or an active intervention group (of their systemic illness). The control group received routine antenatal… - Forum discussion topics
Systematic manipulation of the publishing process via “paper mills”
…href="https://publicationethics.org/resources/research/paper-mills-research">Paper mills research report, COPE & STM, 2022 Systematic manipulation of the publication process, COPE guidance updated 2022 Potential “paper mills” and what to do about them – a publisher’s… - Case
Seven plagiarized manuscripts in one month by the same corresponding author
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. Council would caution that the editor has an obligation… - Case
A survey of doctors’ opinions, with no IRB approval or written consent
A doctor who trained in country A took the licensing examinations in country B because he wished to work in country B. After the examinations, he carried out a survey (with a very poor response rate) of other doctors who had taken the same national licensing examination. The survey asked four major questions: How representative was the examination relative to the scope of your reading?… - Case
Multiple complainants for a single article
…provided sufficient grounds for concern about the article then there is no need to correspond with them further. Related resources Responding to whistleblowers when concerns are raised directly, COPE flowchart