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Case Discussion: Inconclusive institutional investigation into authorship dispute - university perspective comment
The case we are highlighting this month involves an escalating authorship dispute as well as management of the post publication correction process Inconclusive institutional investigation into authorship dispute: 18-07. Cases brought to the COPE Forum are often complex and involve… The COPE Case Taxonomy
In 2013, it became apparent that the publication ethics cases being brought to COPE for discussion and advice were becoming more complex. A new and more comprehensive classification scheme was therefore developed to make it easier to code cases, to aid searching, and to provide a finer level of detail for analysis. The resulting COPE Case Taxonomy comprises 18 main classification categories…- News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: December 2018
…href="https://www.coalition-s.org/feedback/" target="_blank">Plan S guidance on implementation with our neutral and professional voice. For our “E” we’ll recognise the new preprint practices that an increasing number of research communities are adopting by completing our guidance on preprints (started in our preprint discussion document). By doing that… - 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?
…0 2001 39 30 9 0 2002 18 14 4 0 2003 22 15 5 2 2004 25* 17 7 1 Total 212 163…- News
Artificial intelligence and authorship
…and the like (referenced here), could in the future be used to train the bots better in writing authentically human language (let us hope that they also train it in ethical practices). But AI as legitimate authors? The world of publication ethics is already turning… - Forum discussion topics
Bias in peer review
…similar in both versions, with 60% of the respondents being journal editors and 18% working for publishers in 2021. Perhaps it is, therefore, not surprising that the responses to several of the questions asked were nearly identical to the previous survey; these included how important diversity and inclusion in peer review, to whom diversity and inclusion apply, and definitions of peer review… - News
In the news: June Digest
…that women make up 45% of all academic staff but only 20% of those with the rank of professor. The authors note negative associations with professor status with being a woman even in multivariable analysis (unless timing of children was made with career considerations made); the percentage of time in teaching or related activities. Children under the age of 18 years had a positive association,… - News
Case Discussion: Withdrawal of paper at proof stage
…href="https://publicationethics.org/case/increased-number-casual-submissions">case 18-11 (Increased number of casual submissions), the Forum suggested implementing a small submission fee to cover administrative costs and deter “casual” or low-quality submissions. The fee policy and amount must be stated clearly in the submission instructions. If the corresponding author does not reply, the editor would have to postpone publication of that article because all authors… - Guidelines
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
…from among the community of libraries and other academic disciplines to assist in the curation of open access journals. This independent database contains over 18,100 journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities in English and 80 other languages. DOAJ is financially supported worldwide by libraries, publishers, and other like-minded organisations.… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2021: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…up but no action required – 4 No – it has never come up – 74 Who should decide whether an article is so offensive that it is unsound? This question allowed multiple responses. A total of 311 votes were cast across seven options Almost equal in first position were groups affected by the content, the journal editors and publishers, with between 18-19% of all… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2022: Managing paper mills
…other documentation should be requested. Publisher roles in supporting editors to issue decisions based on trustworthiness of content, and ensuring there are systems in place to support editors in responding to legal threats. A publisher's perspective of identifying and investigating paper mill concerns Time on recording : 8:25-18:10