Videos from the recent COPE seminar sessions and a COPE Commentary on the future of peer review. Plus new publication ethics cases.
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COPE Digest
October 2023
Seminar recording | New cases
Welcome to COPE Digest
It was wonderful to welcome so many of you to the inaugural COPE Publication Integrity Week.
We are hugely grateful to the speakers who shared their knowledge and experience across a breadth of topics, and inspired a number of questions from the audience which were thoughtfully answered. The conversation doesn't end there; you have the opportunity to comment further on each of the sessions, on our website.
Videos of the sessions, or written summaries, are now available on our website. As with all recordings of COPE events, they are also available on the COPE YouTube channel.
SEMINAR SESSIONS ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST)) >
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WHERE NEXT IN PEER REVIEW?
Part 1
This month Alysa Levene introduces the first of a two-part COPE Commentary on the future of peer review. While there is some scepticism about the place of peer review in scholarly publishing, Alysa looks at some interesting developments taking place in different disciplines, and publication models.
COPE COMMENTARY ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST)) >
COPE FORUM CASES
New cases
Five cases were brought to the COPE Forum in September Forum for discussion and advice from COPE members:
* Concerns over the withdrawal of a complaint ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST))
* Reviewer citation manipulation ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST))
* Request for retraction due to alleged ethical misconduct in a grant application ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST))
* Author retracts request to be removed from author list ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST))
* Handling undisclosed peer reviewer conflict ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST))
More cases than we had time to discuss were submitted to the September Forum. Two cases have since been discussed with advice given from a small number of COPE Council Members:
* Author refusal to sign an ethics form ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST))
* How to handle offers of promotion of authorship for sale ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST))
Updates to cases
* Request for a retraction from a pharmaceutical company ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST))
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PEER REVIEW MODELS
The discussion on peer review models at the September COPE Forum centred around the challenges in peer review, whether different models should be considered for different publication types, and opportunities for the future.
The introduction by Patrick Franzen is available to watch again.
PEER REVIEW MODELS ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST)) >
COPE FORUM
5 December 2023: Virtual
10:00-11.30am GMT / UTC
COPE Members only
Claiming affiliations: discussion topic
Join us for the COPE Forum where participants discuss publication ethics issues submitted by members. The Forum begins with a discussion on the proper use of claiming affiliations.
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Your publication ethics cases
COPE Members bring specific cases to the COPE Forum for discussion and advice from Forum attendees: COPE Members and COPE Council Members.
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POSITION STATEMENTS
The COPE Trustee Board and Council occasionally publishes position statements. They are intended to provide COPE’s formal position on a particular issue where other COPE guidance does not yet exist such as:
* Authorship and AI tools
* Geopolitical intrusions and editorial decisions
* Diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility
These and other position statements are published on the COPE website.
COPE POSITION STATEMENTS ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST)) >
** UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
1 NOVEMBER 2023
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COPE Council Member, Ana Marušić, will speak to active researchers across all disciplines, members of the research integrity office, and associated committees at University College Dublin. Ana will discuss emerging issues such as AI in authorship and publishing at this seminar organised by the university's Responsible Conduct of Research Committee.
** SUBMIT A GUEST EDITORIAL OR OPINION PIECE
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Launched in 2022, guest editorials have addressed many topics from different perspectives.
We welcome guest editorials and opinion articles regarding research and publication ethics from COPE members.
READ MORE AND SUBMIT A PROPOSAL ([link removed](COPE-VIDEOS-NM-OCT-2023-DIGEST)) >
** COPE Digest Editors:
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Itamar Ashkenazi, COPE Council Member
Trevor Lane, COPE Trustee and Council Member
Managing Editor, Sarah Gillmore, COPE Engagement & Outreach Officer
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