COPE Forum
Wednesday 9 June 2021
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June Forum
COPE members
COPE's June Forum will follow the usual format where we discuss a topic of interest to our members, followed by members' cases presented for discussion and advice from all those participating in the Forum. This month the discussion topic is 'When and how to involve multiple journals and publishers in dealing with complaints from whistleblowers'.
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Deadline to submit a case: Wednesday 26 May
COPE members
Do you have a publication ethics issue in your journal and need help with the next steps?
Send in your case for discussion among the participants of the Forum. The notes in each case reflect the discussion that takes place and are anonymised when added to the COPE website.
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Forum discussion topic
COPE members
For this Forum, the discussion topic is 'When and how to involve multiple journals and publishers in dealing with complaints from whistleblowers'.
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Coordinating multi-journal complaints
Complaints received from whistleblowers can develop into large investigations with multiple journals, editors, and publishers involved. Such complaints may involve many articles from a single author group or multiple author groups whose articles are linked by certain traits. Some journals or publishers may only have one or two papers involved but others may have tens of articles in question.
Current guidance on information sharing between editors states that sharing may be appropriate if more than one journal is thought to be involved. However, it is not clear how this information sharing could, or should, lead to coordinated action between editors.
- How much consideration should an editor give to the wider context of the complaint, outside of their own journal and/or publisher?
- At what point, if ever, in a large multi-publisher investigation should editors coordinate their actions? How could editors efficiently coordinate actions without slowing the correction of the scientific record unnecessarily?
Whether or not you plan to attend the Forum, please add your comments to the discussion.
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