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Paper submitted for publication without consent or knowledge of co-authors
An article was submitted by corresponding author (CA) on 19 December 2011. After several revisions the article was accepted for publication on 23 March 2012. The article was published online 8 May 2012.At the time of submission, CA was a PhD student at a research centre (X).On 21 November 2012, co-author A (also head of the research group) contacted the publisher and editor-in-chief… 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: December 2018 Digest
…lots of discussion. A journal for anonymous ‘controversial’ ideas will only fan the flamesPseudonyms to protect authors of controversial articles - Case
Unusually frequent submission of articles by a single author
A sixth year medical student, with expected year of graduation of 2013 (Mr X), submitted 29 original articles and 17 letters to the editor in the period February 2012 to October 2012 to our journal. This amounted to an average of five submissions per month. Mr X is an author and corresponding author in every article. Of these, he is the first author of eight original research articles and 12 le… - News
Facilitation & Integrity 2023, a year in review
…Errors in analyses, reporting or inaccuracies in published articles (13 cases) Plagiarism (11 cases) Editorial competing interests (7 cases) Authorship disputes (7 cases) Concerns about the handling of responses to published articles (for example, rebuttals, letters to the editor, comments) (6 cases) Citation rings or… - News
Case discussion: Editor manipulation of impact factor
…to guide journals in formulating relevant policies, guidelines, and training, partly based on past COPE Forum discussion documents on citation manipulation and - Forum discussion topics
Ethical aspects of conference proceedings
…within the scholarly community. More information on JATS tagging and conference proceedings from the National Library of Medicine. Where there is insufficient information about study design and meta-analysis in a conference proceeding it may be difficult for scholars to link reports of the same… - News
Citations: Link, Locate, Discover, Connect
…href="https://publicationethics.org/resources/seminars-and-webinars/citation-games">Citation games: mocking research COPE speaker presentation at ISMTE European Virtual Event, 2020 Self-citation: where's the line? Forum discussion, November 2017 Citation… - News
In the news: October 2018 Digest
…="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-13/men-get-the-first-last-and-every-other-word-on-earnings-calls" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-13/men-get-the-first-last-and-every-other-word-on-earnings-calls Autonomy, non-malfeasance, Justice Critical Reviews in Toxicology is being taken to task for only publishing an Expression of Concern, rather than a correction for a 2016… Common ethical and editorial dilemmas of author misconduct: how should we respond?
…36 13 In most of the 212 cases (n=163), there is evidence of misconduct; in 36 cases, there is probably none. Common causes of research misconduct Duplicate/redundant/salami publication 58 Authorship…- News
In the news: December Digest
…src="/files/u7140/screen_shot_2019-12-03_at_13.16.26.png" style="float:right; height:164px; margin:3px; width:200px" />The Access to Transparent Statistics (ACTS) is a call to action for journals and funding agencies to enhance the quality of statistical reporting and an appeal to research institutions to spearhead the battle for reproducibility of results. Components of ACTS include standardisation of the contents of statistical paragraphs, making the… - News
Case discussion: gift authorship
…group that the principal investigator is always an author, despite knowingly meeting only one of the four ICMJE authorship criteria. Case 06-13, Institutionalised policy of gift authorship?, involved removal of authors… - News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…-the-cat-out-of-the-bag-why-researchers-disclose-results.html PEERE is an “EU-funded programme to improve efficiency, transparency and accountability of peer review through trans-disciplinary collaboration”. The Royal Society in the UK will share 13 years worth of historic peer review data in order to help improve the public trust and support the excellence in research and research culture. - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2021: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…prominently on the article in question, to signpost as clearly as possible that there is questionable content. Retraction – 59 Expression of concern – 53 Editor’s Note – 54 Editorial – 13 Commission rejoinders/replies – 16 What resources/guidance would you like to see from COPE in relation to offensive historical content? This question…