Welcome to COPE Digest

A year ago, COPE and STM (the trade association for the worldwide academic publishing industry) undertook a study with Maverick Publishing Services, using data from publishers and interviews with stakeholders, to understand the scale of the problem of paper mills, and to consider what actions should be taken. A clear conclusion from the research was that this is a problem that can only be solved through the collective and joint efforts of publishers, funders, research institutes and other stakeholders. Recommendations for action centred around education and engagement, investment in tools and systems, adjustment of researcher incentives, implementation of protocols which could impede paper mills from succeeding, and improvement in the retraction process.

Since then there has been significant activity to take these recommendations forward.

• Collective action
• Investment in tools and technology
• Education and engagement
• Researcher incentives

• Mike Streeter is Director of Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics at Wiley. Mike champions quality and transparency in research publishing and brings experience working with arts, humanities, and social science journals
• Mabel Chew is a Senior Editor at the Lancet journal. Mabel has a breadth of experience across publication ethics, particularly with diversity, equity, inclusivity and accessibility issues
• Daniel Ucko is Head of Ethics and Research Integrity at the American Physical Society. Daniel has a PhD in Philosophy of Science on the subject of peer review and a PhD in Physics.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENTS
The gap between promise and reality

COPE QUICK SURVEY
Data sharing policies

COPE FORUM CASES
New cases

• Balancing anonymisation and open science during peer-review process
• Authors from Ukraine wish to retract article published in Russian conference proceedings 
• Complaint over protocol used in special issue

Updates to cases

• Authorship dispute involving a commercial institution
• Article published at two journals after withdrawal from first journal
• Review misconduct and its potential impact on a submitted manuscript

VOLUNTEER WITH COPE

We are specifically looking for candidates:

• from outside the UK and the US, with a particular preference for those based in Africa, Asia or Latin America.
• who are journal editors or individual members.
• with a background in Books or Conference Proceedings, and/or in Life Sciences, Engineering or Computer Science.
• with expertise in UK law or in finance.

The candidate, or the organisation they represent, must have been an ordinary member of COPE for at least 1 year.

For some years, COPE has been discussing the fundamental relationship between publication ethics and research ethics, publication ethics being part of research and research publishing. This webinar will look at the issues around the relationships between editors/publishers and institutions.
 

• Susan Garfinkel will share the findings and recommendations of the working group Enhancing partnerships of institutions and journals
• Sabine Kleinert will discuss the Cooperation and Liaison between Universities and Editors (CLUE) guidelines
• Marie Soulière will present an update on COPE’s guidelines on Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases.

After our speaker presentations, there will be an opportunity for questions from attendees. You can email your question in advance or ask questions during the webinar.

• Handling a case of misconduct: editor, publisher, university, funder
• Publication misconduct and fraud: corrections, image manipulation, tools, industry perspective
• Post-publication critiques
• Challenges in arts, humanities, and social science disciplines
• Diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility
• Introduction to publication ethics

NISO PEER REVIEW TERMINOLOGY

RETRACTIONS IN PHILOSOPHY

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEETING
13-17 AUGUST 2023

RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND UNIVERSITIES OF MONGOLIA

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