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Complaint over protocol used in special issue
…albeit one that we are unsure has adequately explained the flagged issues. There is one manuscript currently held in review authored by this guest editor that is a methods manuscript overviewing the protocol at the centre of this investigation; this manuscript has received 2 endorsements for publication and 2 recommendations for rejection from the 4 assigned reviewers. While the concerns voiced by the… - Case
Multiple complainants for a single article
…office started an investigation in accordance with the COPE guidelines, reviewing the whole peer review process of the article and contacting the corresponding author. The author gave a point-to-point reply to the issues and supplied related materials including the original data on which the table in question was based, and also the ethics approval document. The author confessed honest mistakes in the… Membership application FAQ
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…the journal PLOS ONE where she became Deputy Editor-in-Chief. After her time at PLOS, Iratxe worked at ASAPbio for several years, where she led projects to promote the use of preprints and transparent peer review in the life sciences. Iratxe currently works at DataCite as Director of Make Data Count, an initiative to drive the development and adoption of data metrics to support responsible…- Event
Publication Integrity Week 2023
…video A discussion on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in peer review. Friday 6 October Inclusive language video In this session we will explore what role, if any, journals and publishers should play in assessing content for inclusivity, examining the… - Case
Suspicion that signed informed consent forms are forged
A research paper was submitted to our journal and underwent several rounds of peer review and editorial curation. We were on the point of acceptance when we realised there were some images that were submitted along with the paper where patients were perfectly identifiable but we did not have the signed informed consent forms. We therefore asked the authors for the consent forms (corresponding… Seminars
…guidelines for peer reviewers, whistleblowers and more - Dr Virginia Barbour, COPE Chair Download presentation [PowerPoint, 1345kB] Ethics of data publication: same or different? - Sarah Olesen, Australian National Data Service Download…- News
Announcement of COPE Council elections
…Take part in sub-committees and other tasks as agreed by Council Represent COPE externally when required to do so by Council Person specification Good understanding and judgment of business matters Experience of academic publishing (in particular, gained as the editor or publisher of a peer-reviewed publication) Experience of committee work or… - Seminars and webinars
Publication ethics, research integrity and climbing mountains
In this keynote address Chris Graf (Research Integrity Director, Springer Nature) gives an overview of the present state of publication ethics and research integrity. This discussion is one of eleven sessions hosted by COPE during Publication Integrity Week 2023. Membership: universities and research institutes
…universities and research institutes who: conduct and publish original research, and where the results are disseminated through standard scholarly channels encourage training in research ethics and research publication ethics This membership category does not include university presses. University presses that publish peer reviewed journals should apply for- Seminars and webinars
Inclusive language: policing or progressive?
…associate of the Australian Museum, Sydney, and an editor of the journal Zootaxa), and Lisa Richardson (Associate Dean, Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine). Inclusive language survey Caroline introduces the session with a review of a recent COPE member survey on experiences of language use policies. Respondents were familiar with…