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Permission to publish a case report
A journal published ahead of print a peer-reviewed scientific letter by Drs A (corresponding), B, C, D and E with a description of four patients who underwent a certain procedure. One of the cases took place in hospital X. Dr C works at hospital X. However, the corresponding author (Dr A) and the other 2 authors (Drs B and D) do not work for hospital X. The journal received an em… - Translated resources
El autor de un artículo rechazado nombra y critica de forma pública al revisor por pares: caso
…COPE puede ser útil en este campo. Basado en el caso 16-12 Author of rejected paper publicly names and criticises peer reviewer Related resources - News
In the news: September 2021
…overlap between a journal's author and reviewer pools. In this Scholarly Kitchen post, some solutions to improve these conflicting values are offered. Contributing to publications by acting as a peer… - Case
Possible fabricated data: a conspiracy of silence?
…I have written to the National Committee on Ethics in Research in the author’s country but have had no reply. An international expert on the statistical detection of fraud is currently looking at the papers. He has some concerns but his investigation is ongoing. Dr X was a prolific researcher with about 16 of his own first authored papers cited in his clinical trial reports. It appears that many… - Case
Serial plagiarism by an experienced author
…similarity index of less than 30%. Over 12% have a similarity index in excess of 40%—the level at which iThenticate gives a plagiarism alert. Excluding the eight submissions from Dr J, there were 9% falling into this category. The remaining 16% fall in the range 30–39% and have been investigated. In all of these cases, the overlap was in acceptable quotations and in the bibliography and no further action… - Case
Author of rejected paper publicly names and criticises peer reviewer
The first author of a paper rejected by our journal publicly identified one of the four peer reviewers for the paper by name. She did this during a media interview conducted after the paper was published by another journal. The first author implied in that interview and subsequently on Twitter that the paper was rejected because of that person's review and also claimed the reviewer did not reve… - Case
Withdrawal of acceptance based on potentially unconsented data
…submission". The journal guidelines state that the journal has "the right to withdraw acceptance at any time before publishing, in exceptional circumstances", and also that "Informed consent to participate in the study should be obtained from participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 16) for all research involving human subjects". The authors are arguing that their letters… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Introduction to publication ethics
…class="resource-download-inline__shadow"> Introduction The session opens with an introduction from Michael of the core features of COPE. He highlights the Committees’ global range of trustees and Council members, summarises the 16 principles of transparency which form the COPE Core Practices, and gives an overview of the development and… - Case
Suspect author
Author A has published approximately 150 original articles since ~1994, with ~100 on one particular topic. Since some of these events were up to 16 years ago, and there are no formal records from then relating to these studies, the only information we have is the memory of the editors of the affected journals in post at the time. According to their accounts, suspicions were aroused over the… - Case
Author requests for certain experts not to be included in the editorial process
A prospective author contacted the editorial office of a medical journal to request that an intended submission was not reviewed or consulted on by experts involved in a number of published guidelines on the topic of the paper. The author named some of these experts, which included members of the journal’s editorial board (including editor A). The author justified this request by explain… - Translated resources
El autor solicita que ciertos expertos no participen en el proceso editorial: caso
…editorial de la revista: «Nos reservamos el derecho de enviar los manuscritos a los revisores de nuestra elección». Basado en el caso 16-08 Author requests for certain experts not to be included in the editorial process Related resources - News
In the news: March Digest
…target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1218 COPE Council member Resources and further reading
…Member)http://nursing.utep.edu/resources/publication-ethics-video-series/ Publication Ethics: 16 years of COPEPresentation at 7th International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication- News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…institutional performance and panel evaluation and peer review of individual performances. Siverstsen describes the variable adoption of PRFS’s in other European countries, typically without assessments at the individual level. - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2021: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…published paper? In this single-response question, the majority of the audience (73%) had not encountered any situations of offensive material. However, in those that had, 85% of experiences resulted in retractions, suggesting that whenever issues are raised, the concerns are legitimate enough to require intervention. Yes several times – 7 Yes once – 16 No, it came… - News
In the news: February 2018 Digest
…confidence one would have in the results.http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2005203 Other news..... On Jan 16… 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…- News
Case Discussion: Data fabrication in a rejected manuscript
…Case Summary Case 18-16 A journal rejected two manuscripts because of data fabrication, as confirmed by an inspection of the original patient data. Without the lead author knowing, the co-authors had fabricated the dataset after recruiting only… Common ethical and editorial dilemmas of author misconduct: how should we respond?
…"Evidence of misconduct" "Probably no misconduct" Not applicable 1997 16 11 0 5 1998 33 30 2 1 1999 27 20 3 4 2000 32 26 6…- News
In the news: October Digest
…disciplines were assessed using machine-assistance techniques to assess for inclusion of information relating to 19 topics on transparency in reporting and research integrity. The results showed that only Conflicts of Interests and Peer Review Type of the 19 were mentioned in over 1/2 of the instructions for authors. Plagiarism was mentioned in 46%. The other 16 topics (Such as data sharing, image…