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COPE Digest: Publication Ethics in Practice. April 2014 (Vol. 2, Issue 4)

Letter from the Editor of COPE Digest

Publication and research ethics has been very topical over the past few weeks. Thus the news section is wide ranging. It includes guidance about clinical research, management affecting ethics committee opinions, as well as the never ending issues of plagiarism, concerns about data fabrication and retractions. Risks faced by whistleblowers also has a mention and useful tips for ethical publishing are given.

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Focus

COPE eLearning course

Falsification of data and images can be difficult to detect by peer review only. TheeLearningmodule titled 'Falsification' provides tools to help you spot falsification in statistical data as well as digital image data. Test your knowledge and skill at finding image manipulation with the quiz. The module format is consistent with the other modules in theeLearningseries.

In the news

Row over bullying survey

Management and Australian human research ethics decisions on survey on perceptions of bullying

http://www.injuredworkerssupport.org.au/une-in-row-over-bullying-survey/

Academia and publishing are destroying scientific innovation

Nobel LaureateSydney Brenneron how academia and publishing are destroying scientific innovation

http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/blog/2014/02/24/how-academia-and-publishing-are-destroying-scientific-innovation-a-conversation-with-sydney-brenner/

The Research Clinic

The研究诚信办公室(ORI)和theOffice for Human Research Protections (OHRP)release a web based interactive training video entitledThe Research Clinic

https://ori.hhs.gov/TheClinic

道德,监管和研究

Debate about policies regulating clinical research in the US reported inJAMA

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1848596&resultClick=3

举报人

Risks faced by whistleblowers

http://scienceceareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issuess/tarlicle/1014_03_10/caredit.a1400061

COPE resources:
Responding to anonymous whistle blowers

What counts as authorship?

The case of Alan Katritzky who published one paper every 10 days over 61 years

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/02/18/thoughts_on_overpublishing.php

Plagiarism of web resources

Zygmunt Bauman is accused of plagiarising from websites, including Wikipedia, in his latest book

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.aspx?storyCode=2012405

COPE resources:
Howshould editors respond to plagiarism?

Retraction statement

Retraction by欧洲神经病学杂志as a formal investigation by the University of Queensland found that no primary data can be located and no evidence that the study was conducted

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.12276/abstract

COPE resources:
Retraction guidelines

Crash course in publication ethics

'My crash course in publication ethics', fromCharon Pierson, Editor,Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners,和COPE Council Member

http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2014/03/31/my-crash-course-in-publication-ethics/

Navigating ethical challenges in scholarly publishing

Wiley在学术出版中导航道德挑战的十大提示

http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2014/03/12/our-top-10-ti缩--for-navigation- ethical-challenges-in-scholarly-publishing./

Stem cell scientist investigation continues

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26836930

Retraction of climate psychology paper

Frontiers in Psychologyretracts “Recursive fury: conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation”, originally published on 18 March 2013. For the reasons, read more below

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/mar/21/contrarians-bully-climate-change-journal-retraction

http://retractionwatch.com/2014/04/06/co-author-of-retracted-conspiracy-ideation-climate-skepticism-paper-addresses-apparent-contradictions/

COPE resources:
Retraction guidelines

What's been happening at COPE

2014 COPE European Seminar

The2014 COPE European Seminarwas held on Friday 14 March 2014 at the Representation of the State of Hessen to the European Union, Brussels, Belgium, the first time the European seminar has been held outside the UK. The theme of the seminar was "European perspectives on publication ethics".

关于应对欧洲研讨会的报告Mijam Curno(COPE委员会)可以下载这里。

Stephanie Harriman (BioMed Central), posted a report on the seminar on theBioMed Centralblog site,这里。

All presentations from the meeting are available to download这里。Videos of the presentations will be available shortly.

金妮巴伯,应付椅子,解决代表the COPE European seminar

比利时雷汶大学西蒙戈·克莱探讨了研究的指导

publication ethics in Europe

Professor Ana Marusic, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia, and Editor in Chief of

Journal of Global Health,outlined differences in publication ethics in Central and Eastern Europe

TheTimes Higher Education报道前安理会成员Irene Hames’spresentation on the COPE case taxonomy, at the Brussels meeting

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/researchers-seek-more-advice-on-retractions-and-peer-review/2012150.article

艾琳博士,英国和前者伊恩博士,编辑和出版顾问

应对理事会成员,解释了新的应单分类

Scholarship recipients

应对两个旅行赠款参加应对教学研讨会。普拉瑟博士,首席编辑Journal of Young Pharmacist, reported on his experience of attending the seminar. The report can be downloaded这里.

COPE Council elections

We have two vacancies on Council and we are seeking nominations. These are voluntary positions. Full details can be found on thewebsite. The closing date for applications is 21 April 2014.

New COPE discussion document

COPE has published a new discussion document on '关于可能的不当行为的编辑主任之间的信息分享信息'。该指南已在一个应对论坛之后起草,在一些高调的研究不当行为案例之后,其中相关编辑的信息之间的信息分享至关重要,对案件的最终解决至关重要。我们鼓励编辑编辑和出版商发表评论(是否是应对会员),并欢迎研究人员/作者和学术机构的评论。请将所有评论发送给Natalie Ridgeway,Cope Operations Manager这里.

COPE Australian seminar 2014

注册现已为应对澳大利亚研讨会开放,该研讨会将于周一进行23 June 2014, at Karstens Melbourne Conference Rooms, 123 Queen Street Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. For details and to register see这里.

COPE North American seminar 2014

COPE is delighted to announce our 5th North American seminar, which will be held in collaboration withISMTE(国际管理和技术编辑社会),周三2014年8月13日at theHyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The theme of the COPE seminar will be centred around 'new technologies and behaviours for identifying publication ethics issues'. For more details and to register, see这里.

Case of the month

Every month we will be highlighting a publication ethics case that has been brought to COPE by one of its members. Cases will be highlighted for a number of reasons - they may be of broad interest, introduce an important new issue that members may not be aware of, or reflect a topic that COPE is increasingly being asked for advice about. We welcome comments and further discussion about the cases and will provide summaries in future issues.

Online posting of confidential draft by peer reviewer (case #13-15)

Shortly before publication, the authors of a systematic review contacted the editor telling him that a version of the paper as first submitted to the journal for peer review had appeared on the website of a campaign group based in the USA. Further investigation showed that one of the three peer reviewers who initially advised on the paper was also named as a member of the board of directors of the campaign group. Repeated attempts to contact the reviewer and campaign group have failed. What more can the editor do?

Click below to find out what the Forum advised.

//m.lang0752.com/case/online-posting-confidential-draft-peer-reviewer

Feedback can be provided here//m.lang0752.com/contact-us

COPE resources:
COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers