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Critical comment and conflict of interest
Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. The role of the editor/publish is to edit and publish… - Case
Dispute over submitted comment and the right to be forgotten
Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. Council’s understanding is that the Right to be… - Case
Inconclusive institutional investigation into authorship dispute
…Asking each author to specify their contribution. CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) could be useful here. Competition for last author place is increasing in some geographic areas and some disciplines. Changing authorship order or removing an author without adequate institutional investigation is not advisable, however, the correction… - Case
Should stockholders of a pharmaceutical industry declare conflicts of interest in a research paper?
Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. Generally, authors need to declare conflicts of interest… - Case
Plagiarism versus questionable research writing practice
Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. The percentage of overlap of two papers is meaningless… - Forum discussion topics
Coordinating multi-journal complaints
…Related resources Dealing with concerns about the integrity of published research COPE discussion document Your comments Anyone (members and non-members) can comment on this discussion. Comments are reviewed and, on approval, added below.… - Case
Possible authorship conflict over an article published ahead of print
Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. At the very least, Author 1 should clarify the role of… - Case
Call for retraction of a commentary
Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. Council believe that the editor-in-chief and publisher… - Forum discussion topics
Peer review models
…fraud are improving (for example, those being developed by the STM Integrity Hub), but too much information sharing can lead to paper mills changing their practices. Your comments You must be logged in to leave a comment on the COPE website. If you are not a member of COPE you can create a guest account. - Case
Reader concerns about ethics approval and consent from a vulnerable population
Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. The case is quite challenging and goes more into… The COPE Case Taxonomy
…the COPE European Seminar 2014)Download presentation [PDF 552kB] | Watch presentation [14:19] Publication Ethics: 16 years of COPE — Irene Hames, Charon A Pierson, Natalie E Ridgeway and Virginia Barbour(Presented at the 7th International…