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Falsification of certificates of deposit of new bacterial species in culture collections
The process of naming and describing novel species of bacteria is governed by the Bacteriological Code. As part of this process, authors are required to deposit the type strain of the novel species in at least two culture collections located in different countries, and they are also required to provide documentary evidence that the strains have been so deposited and that the deposited strains a… - Case
Inappropriate authorship on students paper
…to send it to a foreign journal. We obtained the signatures of all of the authors and closed the file. The same article was resubmitted as a new article on 29 August 2011. The declaration that it had not been previously published was sent to our journal on 5 September 2011. No change had been made in the names of the authors. The signatures of the students were a photocopy of the original… Presentations
…2007. Presentations from 2006. Presentations from 2005. 2010 Introduction to COPE Download pdf (1.29mb) (uploaded 5 May 2010) Presented by Natalie Ridgeway- News
In the news: June Digest
…-Statement-EUA-SE-on-Research-Assessment.pdf The debate about the impact of social science has seemingly smouldered along for several years. A white paper from a working group to assess the metrics for social science impact and the concept of measuring this impact at all has been published. https… - News
Authorship and Contributorship focus: an editor view and research institution view
…Macau, Hong Kong, also gave his perspective on good authorship practices at COPE’s first China Seminar on “The Pillars of Publication Ethics” It is clear that although authorship and contributorship roles vary widely across… - Case
Unusually frequent submission of articles by a single author
A sixth year medical student, with expected year of graduation of 2013 (Mr X), submitted 29 original articles and 17 letters to the editor in the period February 2012 to October 2012 to our journal. This amounted to an average of five submissions per month. Mr X is an author and corresponding author in every article. Of these, he is the first author of eight original research articles and 12… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Authorship for sale
…Recommendations for handling image integrity issues STM AI Ethics in Scholarly Communication … - News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…in a top 10 economics department is 26% higher for faculty with an A-surname than a Z-surname! He argues that authors should insist on a contributorship model to determine order or a random order if people contributed equally. - News
In the news: October-November 2021
…available but underutilised in scholarly publication. In this interview, Darrel Gunter, the editor of a book on the topic, provides a high-level overview of these potentially transformative technologies. Retractions The project "Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science: Shaping a Research and… - News
In the news: February 2018 Digest
…reproducibility.https://knaw.nl/en/news/news/make-replication-studies-a-normal-part-of-science The editors of PLOS Biology have formalized a policy that emphasizes the… - News
Case Discussion: Possible plagiarism
…degree thesis/dissertation (which is counted as unpublished). As outlined in the COPE Discussion Document on Best Practice for Issues around Theses Publishing, this is an accepted practice especially in the arts and humanities, but… - News
Predatory behaviour in publication ethics
…businesses are sophisticated and adept at evading detection (this would, after all, bring an end to their income). Tools like those under development by the STM Integrity Hub, and crowd-sourced detection like Retraction Watch’s - Forum discussion topics
Bias in peer review
…level of diversity in its peer reviewer pool. Two new reply options to this question also garnered significant responses, with 69% of journals/publishers actively working toward increasing the diversity in its peer reviewer pool and 29% of respondents reporting their journal/publisher had achieved an ideal level of diversity in its peer reviewer pool. Detailed below are other significant shifts… - News
Case discussion: gift authorship
…href="https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2014-44015-002.html">The Behavior Analyst Today, Daniel Shabani et al (2004) reported that the 53 most prolific authors in the field of behaviour sciences published an average of 2.9 articles per year between 1992 and 2001; the 11 most prolific authors published 4.2 articles per year. In an analysis of medical papers published from 2008 to 2012,