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In the news: September 2020
Each month COPE Council members gather and share publication ethics news. This month the news includes articles on peer review, diversity and inclusivity, research integrity, and more. Peer Review Sometimes reviews of papers can stray into personal attacks. The author encourages training on how to - News
Guest article: Inclusion in Scholarly Practice
…as for panels or media interviews) as white and male. Two years ago Keisha Blain, Emily Prifogle and I co-founded womenalsoknowhistory.com, a fully searchable website where scholars build profiles and editors, peers, and journalists can find women experts. Over 3,600 women historians have profiles on the site, and the traffic… - News
In the news: October Digest
…to what they say". https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02658-6 Preprints In 2013, Peer J opened Peer J Preprints only 2 months after beginning a pre-publication peer review journal. In Sept 2019, Peer J Preprints stopped accepting submissions, but the site will continue to… - Event
Editing medical journals (short course)
…Editorial Board members and managing editors. See www.pspconsulting.org/medical-short.shtml or contact Pippa Smart… - Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2016: Can you spot a fake? The trends of fake peer reviews
…Download presentation: Can you spot a fake? The trend of fake peer reviews [PDF, 848KB] … - Seminars and webinars
COPE Podcast 2018: Diversity and Inclusivity in Peer Review
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In the news: May 2021
Each month, COPE Council members find and share publication ethics news. This month the news includes articles on peer review, preprints, open access, and more. Authorship This paper published in the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology and aimed at educating postgraduate scientists… - News
Liz Wager discusses retractions in the BMJ
Liz Wager's recent blog in the BMJ discusss how tricky retractions can be, such as a recent one where the retraction was requested by the company who funded the study and whose employees carried out the research. Although there were some errors in the study, the conclusions were valid. (Liz Wager, Trouble with retractions,1 July: http://blogs.bmj.com… Editing, reviewing and writing during COVID-19
…2021 2020 saw a sharp increase in articles on all subjects being submitted to scientific journals. The changes in science publishing were seen in the speed of review, the number of preprints and the topics of research. Nature: how COVID science changed publishing December 2020 A series of posts…- News
In the news: February Digest
…this evolving principle of science. He writes that open science principles, and how they will influence universities, funding agencies, researchers, and the public, will take years to fully develop. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10677-019-10053-3 A summary of 3 major issues in… - News
In the news: May 2020
…acceptable. The document was not meant for public viewing, but was posted on the website of the Fudan University in Shanghai. https://us.cnn.com/2020/04/12/asia/china-coronavirus-research-restrictions-intl-hnk/index.html The managing editor for academic publications at… - News
In the news: May Digest
…Intellectual property In a discussion paper posted on SSRN, Diana Simon, a Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, explores whether it is fair or helpful to try to generalise attitudes toward plagiarism across cultures? - News
Guest editorial: the challenge of AI chatbots for journal editors
One of us (RW) published an editorial in his journal on the use of ChatGPT in writing academic manuscripts. ChatGPT (a chatbot developed by OpenAI) was included in the author list in the interests of transparency. The journal’s publisher (Elsevier) does not allow AI… - Event
Peer review week
…scholarly communication stakeholders, including academic publishers, associations, institutions, and researchers. Participating organisations will host events and activities to highlight the ways in which peer review contributes to and reinforces trust in scholarship. More information… - News
What to do if you suspect systematic manipulation of the publication process
…affecting the publishing industry. This editorial describes what it is, why it is difficult for individual journal editors and publishers to handle and the background to the development of the new