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An analysis of peer review cases brought to COPE from 1997-2016
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COPE North American Seminar 2019
Challenges and solutions: issues of inclusivity and diversity in the humanities and social sciences Sessions include: Inclusion and diversity in journal publishing in… - News
Vacancies on COPE Trustee Board
…stakeholders for the people who benefit from well conducted and well communicated research: us all. That’s of pretty central importance in our world, and it’s inspiring. Thanks, COPE, for everything!" Charon Pierson reflects on her time as a COPE… - News
AGM 2017
At COPE's recent AGM in November, Zoë Mullan, Ginny Barbour, Sally Weatherill and Adrian Ziderman stepped down as Trustees of COPE, at the end of their term. It is only possible to do the work of COPE with our hugely committed Trustees and we thank them for all their work. Mirjam Curno was re-elected to a seond… - Event
Symposium on Challenges in Research Integrity
…_map.pdf">http://www.flinders.edu.au/about_the_campus_files/Documents/campus_map.pdf Building 53). The full programme can be seen here.… - News
WCRI 2019: Predatory publishing plenary
…articles, many subscription journals also charge authors fees, and hijacked journals can present as subscription journals. Tweets about the session can be seen at - Event
2018 Events
COPE Council members have been busy talking about COPE at meetings and conferences across the globe. - Event
COPE Forum
Register for the July Forum The COPE Forum 4-5.30pm (BST) will be held by webinar and is open to COPE members. Taking part in the Forum allows members to contribute to, as well as learn from, the current cases being discussed. In addition to the cases we will be holding a discussion on "Preprints: What are the issues?" Deadline to register: Friday 21 July - Event
Paper mills meeting: WCRI2024
…presenter, or other). As the meeting room can accommodate 55 people, attendees who wish to present may be prioritised if more people register. For further information, please contact Jennifer Byrne.… - Event
EASE Conference
A stimulating programme of plenary lectures (including Bernd Pulverer, EMBO Press, María del Carmen Ruíz Alcocer, AMERBAC, and Mark Patterson, eLife) and parallel sessions covering a range of topics on editing and managing journals, sex and… - Event
Next COPE Forum 6 September 2011
…href="/files/u661/COPE%20Forum%20Agenda%20%2B%20materials%20060911_final.pdf">here (PDF, 179kb). … - Event
Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting 2021
…;BCFO=&pfp=Browse%20by%20Day&tn=&cpf2=&cus2=&pta=" target="_blank">Inclusive Author Name Change Policies with: Irving Rettig, PhD Candidate, Photochemistry Portland State University; and Theresa J Tanenbaum, Assistant Professor, Informatics, UC Irvine, California. Trevor Lane will present at the - News
COPE Officers 2019-2021
…Welcome In May 2019, the current COPE Officers came to the end of their terms. We welcome the new officers and those officers moving to new roles, and look forward to working together for the next three years. Following two years as Vice-Chair and Chair-elect, FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…Standard retraction form Hervé Maisonneuve, Université de Lyon, France, suggests a standard retraction form and would like feedback from COPE members. Background:Retractions are often used as a proxy for publication quality. Retractions have been studied with cohorts of various sizes over differing time periods.Time after time these studies…Publication and research ethics related to geopolitical issues
This page acts as a resource for publisher, journal or university statements and articles on issues related to political or geopolitical concerns. We bring together some of those statements here which may help other journals and publishers in discussions on their own policies. COPE considers that editorial decisions should not be affected by nationality, ethnicity, political beliefs,…- News
Standards in Authorship webinar summary
…sciences on the topic of authorship. In the humanities, it is considered unethical if a supervisor is listed as an author on a student’s paper, a view at odds with that held in the sciences. As a result, the publication ethics issues in the humanities… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2019: Analysis of retractions, initiators and reasons for retractions
…width="100%"> Presentation by Thed Van Leeuwen Thed Van Leeuwen, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, identifies initiators and reasons for retraction in an analysis of retracted papers (PDF) A publisher's perspective and update of COPE's retraction… - Research
Data sharing policies in scholarly publications: interdisciplinary comparisons 2017
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Standards in Authorship
Standards in authorship webinar, watch again: The pdf of the Standards in Authorship presentations is also available. - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: October 2019
…margin:3px 20px; width:350px" />Highlights included an excellent presentation on text recycling by Cary Moskovitz, David Hansen and Michael Pemberton who provided a very detailed overview of their 5 year multi-institutional and interdisciplinary project, funded by the US…