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In the news: November 2018 Digest
…findings. COPE Council member Deborah Kahn Read November Digest: Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical practice in research data publication - challenges, lessons and opportunities
…-cir.png" style="margin: 3px 10px; float: left; width: 90px; height: 90px;" />Joerg Heber Research Integrity Officer, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory spoke from an institutional perspective, detailing universities roles in providing continuous education around research integrity and data sharing, and being a point of contact for dealing with issues and problems. He also spoke about the capacity of… - Case
Order of authors changing between a submitted manuscript and a published paper
…on the website as a preliminary PDF document while the final HTML form was being prepared. The submitting author was notified of acceptance and the posting of a preliminary version. At this stage, author A contacted the editors to say that the author list was incorrect. As the manuscript was not in its final form, it was still technically possible to make changes to the author list at this stage.… - News
COPE Flowcharts now available in Persian
14 of the 17 COPE flowcharts are now available in Persian. The remaining three (fabricated data in a submitted manuscript, fabricated data in a published manuscript, and how COPE deals with complaints againt member journals) will be available shortly. The Persian flowcharts join the Italian, Spanish, French and Chinese versions already available. Korean, Japanese, Turkish and Croatian will… - Event
Call for cases: 24 April 2017 Forum
The COPE will at 6.30am and 4pm (BST) will be held by webinar and is open to COPE members. Call for cases Cases can be submitted on our website and must be anonymised. We do like those presenting a case to take part in the Forum: pick which time is suitable for you. Deadline for submissions: Monday 10 April - News
Call for cases - November COPE Forum
Our next COPE Forum, where we discuss cases submitted by members, will be held by webinar on Monday 13 November 2017. Cases need to be submitted by Monday 30 October. Submit a case… - Event
EASE/ISMTE joint meeting
COPE will be holding an interactive workshop at the joint meeting of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) and the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE). In this workshop, a number of cases based on real-life examples brought to COPE, and covering some of the most pressing problems currently faced by editors and journals, will be discussed. Co-Secretary… - News
EASE/ISMTE joint meeting
23-24 September 2013, Blankenberge, Belgium COPE will be holding an interactive workshop at the joint meeting of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) and the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE). In this workshop, a number of cases based on real-life examples brought to COPE, and covering some of the most pressing problems currently… - Event
COPE Forum: 10 March 2015
The March COPE Forum will be held on Tuesday 10 March 2015, 3–4.30pm (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. Click here for full details.… - News
COPE Forum: 10 March 2015 meeting
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Tuesday 10 March, 3–4.30pm (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. Click here for full details. … - Case
Redundant publication and a question of authorship
A paper was reviewed and subsequently published in December 1999. A further publication with an almost identical title, but with different authors, was published in another journal in 2000. It is quite clear both papers relate to the same study, and apart from some minor differences in style, which were probably requested by the editorial offices, they seem to be identical. The editor of the… - News
COPE Forum: 9 December 2014 meeting
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Tuesday 9 December 2014, 9–10.30am (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. The agenda and materials can be downloaded here (PDF 709kb). The invitation to join the webinar is below. We can accommodate up to 100 attendees,… - News
COPE Forum: 10 June 2015 meeting
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Wednesday 10 June 2015, 9am–10.30am (British Summer Time). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. The agenda and materials can be downloaded here (PDF 712kb). The invitation to join the webinar is below. We can accommodate up… - News
COPE Forum: 9 December 2015
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Wednesday 9 December 2015, 12noon–1.30pm (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. The agenda and materials can be downloaded here (PDF 478kb). The invitation to join the webinar is below. We can accommodate up to 100… - Event
COPE Forum: 10 June 2015
The June COPE Forum will be held on Wednesday 10 June 2015, 10am–11.30am (British Summer Time). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. Click here for full details.… - News
COPE Forum: 10 June 2015
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Wednesday 10 June, 10am–11.30am (British Summer Time). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. Click here for full details.… - Event
COPE Forum
The September COPE Forum will be held on Wednesday 09 September 2015, 3.00pm–4.30pm (British Summer Time) at The Montcalm Hotel, 34-40 Great Cumberland Place, London, W1H 7TW. Full details can be found here. … - Seminars and webinars
Artificial intelligence and peer review
In this session, COPE Council Member, Mike Streeter, hosts a discussion between Dustin Smith (Hum), and Mohammad Hosseini (postdoctoral researcher and collaborator at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine) about the state… - Case
Ethical approval requirements for case study reports
…should pay equal attention even if it is decided that informed consent for research does not apply to case reports or case series. COPE has guidelines regarding patient consent in case reports. It should be noted that these stipulate that journals… - Case
The incomplete retraction
A journal published a paper several years ago that subsequently had to be retracted, on the advice of the university where the work had been conducted. The university provided no further details but promised to do so. Two years later they confirmed that the paper should be retracted, but gave no information on exactly what had gone wrong and whether anybody had been punished. Subsequently, one…