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Submit your poster for the Asia Pacific Seminar
In a new venture for COPE, we welcome you to submit your publication ethics work for presentation as a poster at COPE’s first Asia-Pacific Seminar in Australia. The topics considered will be publication ethics-oriented research or information about ethical policies, techniques, collaborations, and initiatives that COPE members and others attending the COPE seminar will be interested in… - News
COPE and ALPSP collaborate on new publication ethics course
ALPSP are hosting a new course, developed in collaboration with COPE, on 'Publication Ethics: Fraud and Misconduct'. The course will be held on Monday, 4 March 2013, and will be led by ex-COPE Chair, Liz Wager, and Donna Neill, of John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Additionally, ALPSP are able to offer all COPE members its discounted ALPSP member rate for the course.… - Event
Tokyo University & Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
COPE council member Tracey Bretag will give two presentations on academic and research integrity in Japan, during which Tracey will speak about COPE guidance. These will be at Tokyo University on 'Academic integrity - why is it so important?' with an audience of postgraduate global and community health students. This will be followed… - Event
INANE (International Academy of Nursing Editors): 2014 Annual Meeting
COPE Council members Charon Pierson and Geri Pearson will be holding a COPE Workshop at the meeting. Click here for more information.… - Flowcharts
Changes in authorship: Addition of extra author – after publication
…class="resource-download-inline__container"> Flowchart Changes in authorship: Addition of extra author - after publication PDF 99 KB… - Case
New claim to authorship of published paper
…input to the work. Author X said that the correct authorship should be X and A in that order. Author X provided as evidence an internal document submitted to and accepted by the university authorities in May 2010 in fulfilment of a requirement to demonstrate capability for research. His academic record confirms that this submission was successful. He then changed supervisor (and department)… - Case
The author not affiliated to an institution
A contribution about training in family medicine training was published in a journal. Subsequently, a letter from the chairman of the department of family medicine at the university with which the author claimed to have been affiliated, said that the author did not work there. The author was asked for an explanation. He replied that he had done it involuntarily and that he would be happy for… - Case
Obtaining consent for a study of people with severe learning disabilities
…the research 'can go ahead without the need for Ethical approval'. The editor presumed this was because the research was being done for operational/service reasons. The editor’s main ethical concern was that consent from the individual patients had not been obtained, to which the authors responded that it was not possible to obtain consent as the participants’ learning difficulties were too severe.… Online learning: Request for proposals
…Publication ethics training for research integrity officers We are no longer accepting proposals from providers of online training courses as the deadline has passed. COPE are looking for a UK-based partner to provide content for an online training course to cover publication ethics issues. The course will be designed for research integrity officers (RIOs) who are…- Event
COPE UK Seminar 2011
The theme of this year’s seminar is authorship and falsification/fabrication of data. Editors, authors and all those interested in improving the standard of publication ethics are welcome to attend. To register, please complete the registration form here. … - News
FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: Publication ethics issues in the social sciences
The Forum discussion topic on Tuesday 9 December is “Publication ethics issues in the social sciences”. Click here to learn more and please do leave your comments… - Event
COPE European Seminar 2017: The changing face and future of publication ethics
Join us to celebrate 20 years of COPE at our 2017 European Seminar. The Seminar is free for COPE members, £300 for non-members. Register & more information… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2013: Institutional responses to violations of research integrity
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CrossMark: there is no final version — Ed Pentz, CrossMark
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CrossMark: there is no final version — Carol Meyer, CrossRef
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AsiaPacific Seminar 2011: Publication ethics as a manifestation of professional ethics
…Download presentation: Publication ethics as a manifestation of professional ethics (PDF, 1155KB)… - Case
Retraction or correction?
…href="https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts/plagiarism-published-article"> the COPE flowchart for suspected plagiarism in a published article. It would seem that the editors find the response from the authors insufficient and unsatisfactory, and it is clear from the flowchart what the next recommended steps should be. If the editor believes that the omission was not intentional, the authors could be allowed to fix the oversight. The editor could let… - Case
No ethics committee approval or informed consent
… If the data came from an audit/questionnaire/survey neither consent nor ethics committee approval would have been required. From the synopsis of this case, however, the patients did appear to have actively participated. The medical director of the hospital should also be informed. Inform the authors that the hospital’s chief executive has been contacted.… - Case
Consideration of publishing raw data
…the authors to go back and obtain ethics approval to publish raw data? If so, does the author have to go back to the original ethics committee? · Also, does one allow the authors to publish only “relevant” data or does one require all of the data generated from the trial to be published?… - Case
WAME case
This case was posted on the WAME (World Association of Medical Editors) list-serv and the editor (from India) asked whether COPE could provide guidance. An author (who happens to also be a journal editor) submitted a manuscript to a journal listed in one of the major medical databases. Having heard nothing for several months he tried to contact the editor to discover what was happening.…