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Welcome to the May issue of COPE Digest.
The World Conference on Research Integrity (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 Summit held in May of 2023. The Summit, a joint project from COPE and STM, 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.
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