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 topical issue, followed by members' cases presented for discussion and advice from all those participating in the Forum.
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New cases
Current cases, sent in by COPE members, will be discussed by those attending the Forum with feedback and advice given to the member.
- Ethics approval and consent
- Unresponsive authors delaying publication
- Can two DOIs be assigned to the same manuscript?
- Manuscript submitted based on retracted paper
Updates to previously discussed cases
Here we present cases which previously came to the COPE Forum for advice, where the member who originally sent in the case updates us on subsequent actions and decisions taken.
- Paper published without permission or acknowledgement from institution
- Preprint plagiarism
- Author anonymity at the final proofreading stages
READ CASES WITH QUESTIONS FOR THE FORUM >
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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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