A rare insight into COPE's Facilitation & Integrity Subcommittee: they helped guide a journal into engaging with an Austrian investigation, leading to a retraction.

It's usually unsung work, much of it done by volunteers from COPE council.

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/12/11/copes-involvement-leads-to-retraction-of-paper-on-homeopathy-for-lung-cancer/

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COPE’s involvement leads to retraction of paper on homeopathy for lung cancer

A journal that last year corrected a paper claiming to show a homeopathic intervention improved quality of life and survival for people with advanced lung cancer has now retracted the article after…

Retraction Watch

Wake up, babe, new COPE guidelines just dropped!

Version 3 of the Retraction guidelines and brand new Expression of Concern guidelines are out now. I co-authored the long-awaited EoC guidelines and v.2 of the Retraction guidelines.

https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/expressions-concern
https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/retraction-guidelines

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Join COPE for a week of webinars on publication integrity, 2-6 October.
https://publicationethics.org/events/cope-seminar-2023

Free to COPE members, and Friday's Introduction to publication ethics and the COPE Ethics Toolkit is open to all.

With Daniel Kulp, Nancy Chescheir, Chris Graf, Jennifer Byrne, Elizabeth Moylan, Nick Wise, Elizabeth Loder, Trevor Lane, Sara DiBari, Jana Christopher, and more.

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Publication Integrity Week 2023 programme

Publication Integrity Week We are delighted to announce registration is now open for our 2023 COPE Seminar, Publication Integrity Week, to be held from 2 to 6 October 2

COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics

"STM Solutions, the standards and technology arm of STM , is developing the Integrity Hub on behalf of STM members. Current activities include creating a Paper Mill Checker Tool and a Duplicate Submission Detection Tool."
- Deborah Kahn, COPE trustee 🧵

https://publicationethics.org/news/paper-mills-united-act

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Paper mills: United to act

A year ago, COPE and STM (the trade association for the worldwide academic publishing industry) undertook a study with Maverick Publishing Services, using data from publishers and interviews with stak

COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics
Announcing new resources from the FORCE11-COPE Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group: flowcharts!

Recognizing the need for dialogue on best practices around ethical challenges in data publication, the FORCE11 Research Data Publication Ethics Working Group started in early 2021 as a multi-stakeholder community effort involving representatives of data repositories, journals, researchers, institutional research integrity officers and libraries. The group was set up in

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NEW GUIDANCE
Best practice for guest-edited collections.
- Find out more about what to consider when managing collections.
- Includes checklists for creating guest-edited collections.
https://doi.org/10.24318/7cKLAia0
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Guest edited collections best practice

Find out the ethical responsibilities for creating and hosting guest -edited article collections in journals

COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics

Pulling your hair out because of paper mills? COPE has practical guidance on tackling systematic manipulation of the publication process.

https://doi.org/10.24318/x0mN3xfd

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Addressing concerns about systematic manipulation of the publication process

Find out how to manage cases of paper mills and how to take action on many affected articles at the same time.

COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics