Dear Digest Readers,
2020 Greetings from COPE and welcome to the January newsletter.
The new year promises to be a busy one for COPE and our sister organisations with many events in the coming months. First, we would draw your attention to our new discussion paper on Predatory Publishing. As we always note with respect to COPE discussion documents, these are living and evolving discussions and we look forward to your comments and suggestions on the challenging set of issues which predatory publishing raises.
As we moved forward in creating this document, we did so with an understanding of the concerns that a number of legitimate journals have been previously misidentified as predatory by different organisations and that there are sensitivities of various sorts on this topic.
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What we attempted to accomplish in the discussion included addressing questions such as...
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COPE Chair Deborah Poff
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NEW! PREDATORY PUBLISHING DISCUSSION DOCUMENT
This guidance gives an overview of the issue with recommendations and resources. COPE welcomes feedback and comments to continue this live and ongoing debate.
- What is predatory publishing?
- What are the commonly occurring features in predatory publications?
- How can we avoid and raise awareness of the problem of predatory publications?
Read more and add your voice to the discussion
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RESEARCH INTEGRITY IN CHINA
China has become a formidable global leader in scientific—including medical—research, with the world's largest publication output, a rapid surge in the number of highly cited researchers, and an increasingly unparalleled quality of scientific publications. However, there is often a shadow hanging over any country's progress, especially a nation that has advanced with spectacular velocity. China is no exception. And the current concern, escalated to the highest levels of the Chinese Government, is research integrity.
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Read more about research integrity concerns in China, as written by former COPE Council member Helena Wang.
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The latest publication ethics news on topics such as culture change, allegations of misconduct, reproducibility, peer review and more.
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Here are just three stories taken from our full news summary:
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Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing.
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This presentation at the Munin Conference in December, describes an initiative to increase awareness within the linguistics community of the value of data citation.
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ICMJE recommendations have been revised. The main changes are rephrasing COIs to relationships and activities, adding efforts for inclusion and diversity, and advising against citing predatory journals.
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COPE WORKSHOP, AUSTRALIA
3 MARCH 2020
MELBOURNE
Following on from the success of previous COPE workshops with ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), we are delighted to announce another half day workshop in Melbourne.
The workshop is hands-on, with attendees working through publication ethics issues from real cases raised by COPE members to identify what next steps should be taken, with the help of COPE Council members.
COPE Council members Michael Wise and Trevor Lane will run the workshop using the collective advice and guidance from COPE as well as their own perspectives.
REGISTER FOR WORKSHOP >
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SEMINAR, NORTH AMERICA
15 JUNE 2020
COLOMBUS, OHIO, USA
Save the date!
We will be holding our North American seminar on Monday 15 June 2020 at The Ohio State University, Ohio, USA.
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FORUM DISCUSSIONS
The Forum is where COPE members discuss and give advice on cases submitted, anonymously, by members. We also discuss a topic of the moment. Forum discussion topics from last year are available on our website:
NEXT COPE FORUM
FRIDAY 6 MARCH 2020: by webinar
4pm - 5.30pm GMT
(COPE Members Only)
The March Forum will include cases submitted by members. Our Forum discussion topic is "Editing of reviewer comments".
If you have a case and need advice on your next steps, you can submit it to be discussed, anonymously, at this Forum. The deadline to send in your case is 21 February.
Registration to attend the forum is now open to members.
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BEST PRACTICES IN PREPRINT INFRASTRUCTURE
20-21 January 2020
CAMBRIDGE, UK
Co-organised by ASAPbio and EMBL-EBI, Iratxe Puebla, COPE's Facilitation and Integrity Officer, will speak on behalf of COPE at this meeting.
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INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF EDITORS IN HEALTH SCIENCES
21 February 2020
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
Nancy Chescheir, COPE Council, will speak at this meeting on the ethics in health science publishing and predatory journals in health sciences.
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J-STAGE SEMINAR, JAPAN
Trevor Lane, COPE Council, gave a keynote presentation titled “COPE: Promoting integrity in research and its publication”, with the aim of updating J-STAGE representatives and participants on how COPE is helping publishers, editors, institutions, and other stakeholders, to take collective responsibility for the integrity of the world’s scholarly record.
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ISMPP EUROPEAN MEETING
21-22 January 2020
LONDON, UK
This year's International Society for Medical Publishing Professionals (ISMPP) European Meeting is themed Precision communication: achieving clarity, reach and value.
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ALPSP TRAINING COURSE, PUBLICATION ETHICS
6 February 2020
LONDON, UK
ALPSP is offering a 25% discount to COPE members for its training course Publication ethics: fraud and misconduct.
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ISMTE ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE
2-3 March 2020
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) have offered a discount to COPE members for their conference. If you are a COPE member and would like to attend the ISMTE conference, contact us for a discount code before you register.
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PEER REVIEW CONGRESS
September 2021
CHICAGO, USA
The Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication encourages research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the evidence base on which scientists can improve the conduct, reporting, and dissemination of scientific research.
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COPE Digest Editors:
Deborah Kahn, Global Publishing Director, Taylor & Francis
Nancy C Chescheir, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Obstetrics and Gynecology
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