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COPE and Publication Ethics
Elizabeth Moylan, COPE Council Member
Senior Editor (Research Integrity) BioMed Central
@latwec
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• What is publication ethics?
• What is COPE?
• What are the big issues?
• What help can you get?
• What are the challenges?
• What are the solutions?
Overview
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What is publication ethics?
A set of common rules among authors,
editors, reviewers and publishers to protect
the integrity of the scientific record.
Charlotte Haug, previous Vice Chair, COPE
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What is COPE?
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Who are COPE members?
General members
• 10,000+ members (editors, publishers, associates)
• International and fully inclusive (100+ countries)
• Broad range of subject areas
Constitutional members
• 40 council members elected by general members or co-opted
• Trustee Board: officers/committee chairs, elected by Council members
• All volunteers, supported by 5 paid staff
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COPE provides
Leadership
Voice
Resources
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COPE resources and services
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• COPE expects members to adhere to
code of conduct
• COPE will consider complaints against
members
• Facilitate dialogue
• Advise on best practice
• Not specifics
COPE expectations
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What are the big issues?
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Publication Ethics: 16 years of COPE — Irene Hames, Charon A Pierson, Natalie
E Ridgeway and Virginia Barbour
7th International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication
http://www.peerreviewcongress.org/abstracts_2013.html
Prevalence of problems
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For Editors – handling unethical practices
Nature 478, 26-28 (2011)
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Adapted from Marcovitch et al Croat Med J. 2010 doi: 10.3325/cmj.2010.51.7
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Relatively recently discovered (2011)
Peer review scams and cartels (2014)
Fake email addresses and electronic
submissions facilitated this activity
Resulted in mass retractions by
publishers (2015)
Peer review problems
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Misconduct/errors can be detected
– By editor
– By software
– By reviewers
– By authors
– During peer review
– AND post-publication (readers)
How are issues detected?
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What help can you get?
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. COPE Guidelines
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http://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf
COPE Guidelines
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COPE discussion documents
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COPE’s 18 Flowcharts (in 6 languages)
• How to respond to whistle blowers
• What to do if you suspect a reviewer has
appropriated an author’s idea or data
• What to do if you suspect plagiarism
• What to do if you suspect redundant
(duplicate) publication
• Changes in Authorship
• Conflict of Interest
• What to do if you suspect an ethical problem
• What to do if you suspect fabricated data
Guides for a
logical
process of
investigation
and decision
making
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Example flowchart
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COPE forum
• Anonymous description of real cases
• Discussion
• Advice, follow up, resolution
• Searchable resource
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There are still challenges
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• Pressure to publish
• Reliance on metrics
• Perverse incentives
• Compromise on standards
• Verification
“58% of survey respondents are
aware of scientists feel tempted
or under pressure to compromise
on research integrity and
standards”
The Culture of Scientific Research in the UK. http://nuffieldbioethics.org/project/research-
culture/
Nuffield Council report
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There are no easy solutions
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The Culture of Scientific Research in the UK. http://nuffieldbioethics.org/project/research-
culture/
Suggestions for actions
Role for:
• Technology
• Training
• Transparency
• Unbiased reporting
• Guidelines e.g. EQUATOR
• Reproducibility
• Data sharing
• ORCID
• Emphasis on correction
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Accepting the complexity may at least help to
understand what it is that needs to be solved.
Could we change the incentive structure to reward
authors for more than merely being published in a
journal?
Ginny Barbour, Chair COPE
Publication ethics – a wicked problem?
http://www.ethics.org.au/on-ethics/blog/april-2016/%E2%80%98publish-or-
perish%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-the-wicked-problem-threateni
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Acknowledgements
• This presentation is based on previous COPE
presentations by council members
• Linda Gough and Natalie Ridgeway, COPE
• ISAJE