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Research integrity in China
…a shadow hanging over any country's progress, especially a nation that has advanced with spectacular velocity. China is no exception. And the current concern, escalated to the highest levels of the Chinese Government, is research integrity. Read more about research integrity concerns… - News
Principles of Transparency translations: Spanish and Portuguese
…compiled a minimum set of criteria that journals will be assessed against when they apply for membership at one of our organisations. We encourage authors and anyone else who is unfamiliar with a journal to use these criteria in assessing a journal.… - Event
Research and publishing ethics: challenges and best practices webinar
…webinar is free for anyone to attend. Endorsed and sponsored by China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), Taylor & Francis Group and Society of China University Journals are co-organising a series of Excellence in Academic Publishing webinars in the first two weeks of July, as the second part of their joint training program for Chinese researchers, reviewers and journal… - Event
COPE North American seminar
COPE is delighted to announce our 5th North American seminar, which will be held in collaboration with - News
COPE Indian Seminar at the Annual Conference of IAMJE
…and COPE Alumnus, Trish Groves, will be leading the seminar. The seminar will take place at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. To register, please contact: [email protected] More information is available here (PDF 160kb) and the programme for the COPE… - News
New guidelines from COPE: Sharing of Information Among Editors-in-Chief Regarding Possible Misconduct
…="http://publicationethics.org/files/u661/Forum_discussion_summary_on_Sharing%20of%20information%20among%20editors_Final.pdf">http://publicationethics.org/files/u661/Forum_discussion_summary_on_Shar...), were circulated to members as a Discussion Document for feedback ( - Event
COPE Webinar: Allegations of Misconduct, April 2019
…is free, and open to COPE members only. More information and register here… - Event
COPE Australian seminar 2014
…2014, at Karstens Melbourne Conference Rooms, 123 Queen Street Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. For details and to register see - Event
COPE Forum: 8 November 2016 8am & 4pm (GMT)
…href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=November Forum AMA">Submit an AMA question More information and to register for the Forum … - Event
Navigating Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern: workshop
…Case workshop: Expressions of Concern Final wrap up and closing ISMTE are offering the ISMTE members rate to COPE members. Just let them know if are COPE member when you register. Read more and register >… - Translated resources
Revisión por pares orientatión de COPE
…orientatión de COPE PDF 1 MB Return to translated resources page… - Seminars and webinars
WCRI 2019: Preprints and their place in the publication ethics landscape
While preprints have existed in some disciplines for decades, preprints and preprint platforms are becoming more and more common across the entire landscape of publishing. The total output from preprints remains low in comparison to published journal articles, however, preprints are growing rapidly across many disciplines. Preprints also offer some interesting questions and potential concerns… - Event
ISMPP European Meeting: COPE member discount
…patient-level data: What are the Implications?’ focusing on the recent ICMJE proposal—speakers include Fiona Godlee, BMJ, Stuart Spencer, Lancet andMarie-Claire Pickaert, EFPIA; a plenary session on ‘The reach of publications’, providing critical appraisals of new formats available for extended reach and best novel metrics to measure deliverables; and a parallel session on ‘Transfer of value’, sharing… - Event
ISMPP Annual Meeting
…a Roadmap for Responsible Data-Sharing and Dissecting Journal Peer Review Real world evidence-focused sessions, roundtables, and workshops on patient-reported outcomes, patient registries, RWE publications, and communicating value to payers, physicians, and patients 23 roundtable discussions on current medical publication topics with an emphasis on best practice sharing - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 23 September 2014: Standard retraction form
…the COPE retraction guidelines using very simple tick boxes: who is retracting the article, the reason for the retraction and history of errata/ expressions of concern. Then, a free text box would allow the editor to add any information they consider useful. Download the PDF for the full discussion… - Event
COPE 25th anniversary seminar, 2022
…editors/publishers and universities. The seminar sessions will be of interest to editors, publishers, authors and all those interested in publication ethics. #C0PE25 Creating a culture of publication integrity together Keynote address Book wars: the impact of the digital revolution on Anglo-American trade publishing John B Thompson discusses the digital revolution in… - News
New Members: July-October 2019
We are delighted to welcome new members to to COPE. The new members have been assessed against criteria outlined in the Principles of Transparency and signing up to COPE shows that they intend to follow the highest standards of publication ethics and to apply COPE principles of publication ethics outlined in the - Case
The wrong standard deviations, the over stringent selection criteria, and the overt attempt at advertising
A randomised controlled trial raised three aspects of concern: 1. The participants’ physical characteristics at entry to the study were listed in a table. For the two groups—intervention and control—one physical characteristic was given as a mean ± the standard deviations (SDs). However, the SDs for both groups were much smaller than they should have been. 2. The inclusion criteria were… - Event
ISMPP Asia Pacific Meeting 2019
…Nothing about us without us: Patient involvement in the communication of science ISMPP is offering a 10% registration discount to COPE members for its Asia Pacific Meeting, Bridging Global Standards and Regional Practices, 6 September 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. Learn about the meeting at