New recommendations in the 'Inappropriate image manipulation' flowchart and a new discussion 'Publishing when English is not your first language'.

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COPE Digest
May 2024

Image manipulation | WCRI 2024

Welcome to the May issue of COPE Digest.

The World Conference on Research Integrity ([link removed]) (WCRI) will return June 2-5 in Athens, Greece. This is the eighth iteration of the conference which brings together all stakeholders involved in research and publication integrity. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Catalysing the translation of research into trustworthy policy and innovation". The conference will be hybrid to allow for broader participation and COPE is happy to be a sponsor.

Many COPE Trustees and Council members will be contributing to the conference. In particular, Trustee Deborah Kahn will give a plenary session focused on the action plan that was generated out of the United2Act ([link removed]) Summit held in May of 2023. The Summit, a joint project from COPE and STM ([link removed]) , brought together a broad range of funders, institutions, researchers, editors, publishers, and other interested organisations to address the challenges of paper mills, and develop collaborative actions to help fight them. Council Member Mabel Chew will give a plenary talk on “Tackling racial and ethnic bias when translating research into policy.” In particular, she will focus on the need for diversity in authors, referees, and editors when reporting and disseminating research results. Also, I will be a panellist in the symposium “Toward responsible clinical trial data sharing practices". It will be an exciting meeting, and I look forward to seeing
some of you there.

PROGRAMME AND REGISTER ([link removed]) >

COPE Chair Dan Kulp

An image of a magnifying glass highlighting a section on a flowchart. With copy next to it "Inappropriate image manipulation flowchart. Practical guidance for editors dealing with suspected image manipulation in a published article". Plus the COPE logo and web address publicationethics.org

INAPPROPRIATE IMAGE MANIPULATION: UPDATE

This guidance helps editors who have been contacted about suspected inappropriate image manipulation in a published article. The flowchart includes who to contact and when to consider a retraction, correction or expression of concern.

New to this flowchart:
* an option for immediate retraction by the editor under certain conditions
* a recommendation to publish an expression of concern while an institutional investigation is ongoing
* more emphasis on whether the image manipulation affects the article's conclusions when making a decision on actions
* an option to publish a retraction or correction if an honest error has been detected that does or does not invalidate conclusions, respectively.

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** COPE FORUM
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TUESDAY 20 JUNE
10:30-12:00 BST/UTC+1
COPE Members Only

Publishing when English is not your first language: discussion topic

Join us for the COPE Forum where participants discuss publication ethics issues submitted by members. The Forum begins with a topic discussion on "Publishing when English is not your first language". In this Forum we share the voices of some of our members and other associates who communicate in additional languages, and invite experiences and suggestions for action from our members.

Whether or not you can attend the Forum we welcome comments which add to the discussion on the COPE website.

PROGRAMME & REGISTER ([link removed]) >


** YOUR PUBLICATION ETHICS CASES
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COPE Members Only

COPE Members: if you have a publication ethics issue you are currently dealing with and need advice from other COPE members, submit your case for discussion and advice at the Forum in June.
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** PUBLICATION INTEGRITY WEEK 2024
MONDAY 18 - FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER
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We are delighted to announce Publication Integrity Week 2024. This week-long series of events will feature insights from across the publication integrity spectrum from sessions on good publication ethics practice to discussions on issues challenging research publishing.

Topics covered will be useful to anyone involved in research publishing including editors, publishers of content, university integrity officers and individuals interested in this area.

SAVE THE DATE!


** EDITORS' WORKSHOP
SPLIT, CROATIA
THURSDAY 13 JUNE
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COPE is hosting an in-person workshop for local journal editors on transparency and best practices in scholarly publishing. The workshop will be led by members of COPE Council and will include interactive discussions of cases brought to us for advice by our members.

In the News


** JOURNALS AND PUBLISHERS FACING ISSUES FROM FRAUDULENT SITES
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One journal walks the terror trail after a predatory journal hijacked its identity.
International Development Planning Review, published under Liverpool University Press since 1979, relates the method, the damage, who was helpful, and who was not.

LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS BLOG ([link removed]) >


** PREPRINTS, JOURNALS AND OPENNESS: DISENTANGLING GOALS AND INCENTIVES
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Should preprints completely replace journals? Robert Harington, a publisher at the American Mathematical Society, discusses the role of preprints, funding, and peer review upon inclusiveness, research integrity, and academic promotion.

SCHOLARLY KITCHEN ARTICLE ([link removed]) >


** LINGUISTICALLY INCLUSIVE POLICIES REQUIRED IN PUBLISHING
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A survey of journal and editor policies and practices in the biological sciences reveals that only a minority of the journals published in English support linguistically inclusive policies. Though editors favoured some inclusive policies, published guidelines hardly noted these.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY ARTICLE ([link removed]) >


** Submitting a guest editorial or opinion piece to COPE
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We welcome guest editorials and opinion articles regarding research and publication ethics from COPE members. Please read the COPE guest editorial policy ([link removed]) before submitting your article.


** 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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