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class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. An article has recently been published with maps and text… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> On-going </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/author-deceased-prior-submission">Author deceased prior to submission</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. One of the publisher's journals has received a paper whic… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> Case Closed </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/defenserepresentation-author-accused-plagiarism-or-other-misconduct-and-avoiding-conflict">Plagiarism, duplicate publication, and conflicts of interest: developing policies</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance. We have recently updated our publisher policies on plagia… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> Case Closed </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/whether-equally-contributing-authors-have-same-contribution-author-contributions-section">Contributor roles of contributing authors</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> If there are authors with equal contributions (including co-first and co-last authors) in an article, then according to the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), do their roles need to be consistent in the "Author Contributions" section? … Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> On-going </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/using-secondary-data-sets-statistical-modeling">Authorship when data sets are reused as secondary data</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> Our journal is considering how to handle authorship of articles where medical data are subsequently utilised by a different research team as secondary data sets to explore the same or new research questions. These are cases where members of the original team (including the principal investigator) are involved as advisors and participants to assist in formulating the research questions and inter… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> On-going </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/editorial-board-member-received-invitation-questionable-journal">Questionable journal duplicating the name of a COPE member</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> An Editorial Board member of our journal reported to the editorial office after discovering a submission invitation in their mailbox. The invitation came from a journal with the same name as ours but a different ISSN. Upon investigation, our team determined that this other journal's ISSN was not registered and identified several possible issues with its publishing process, including non-sequent… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> Case Closed </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/inadvertent-duplicate-publication-same-article-month-apart-same-journal">Inadvertent duplicate publication of the same article a month apart in the same journal</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> This was an unfortunate situation where several checks and balances already in place at the journal failed during the peer review and production process leading to inadvertent duplication of a manuscript. Additionally, there were technical glitches, and the duplication of manuscript was missed by the authors, editors and journal staff as well. The duplicate articles were published a month apart… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> On-going </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/citation-manipulation-in-conference-proceeding">Citation manipulation in a conference proceeding</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> We have received a communication from the conference organiser and conference committee of a conference proceeding published by us. They initially wrote to us advising that members of the teaching staff at their university manipulated the references of 68+ papers by deleting references/adding references which had nothing to do with the research. The organiser advised that the university… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> Case Closed </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/experiment-reported-submitted-manuscript-was-not-carried-out-author">Experiment reported in a submitted manuscript was not carried out by the author</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> We have recently received an Original study in which the authors stated that all the relevant experimental studies were done by a biotechnology company (via a Contract Research Organisation), which had provided analysis services for the relevant data. In the initial review, when we checked the relevant experimental issues with the author, we found that the author could not provide the sources o… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> Case Closed </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/undisclosed-conflict-interest-source-controversy">Handling an undisclosed conflict of interest which is attracting controversy</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> In summer 2023, an author informed the journal that they had unintentionally neglected to declare a conflict of interest on all of the five articles that they had published in the journal between 2019 and 2022. They had been made aware of this on social media, in the context of a widespread movement to discredit members of an emerging healthcare profession that they represent. They stated that… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> Case Closed </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/handling-contentious-authorship-disputes">Handling contentious authorship disputes</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> Recently we published an article online. A scholar wrote to us saying that their name is not included in the author list but that they had made contributions to the article. They therefore requested us to add their name to the author list. They are currently mentioned only in the Acknowledgements section of the article. We contacted the corresponding author of the article, who insisted t… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> Case Closed </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/two-corresponding-author">Is it possible for an article to have two corresponding authors?</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> Is it possible for a submission to have two corresponding authors (as the authors are requesting)? … Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the COPE Forum where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individua… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> Case Closed </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/authors-claimed-one-or-more-authors-names-are-missed-after-publication">Late addition of co-authors</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> An article was submitted to our journal with two authors listed. Proofs were approved with these two authors listed. However, two months after publication the corresponding author claimed that the article had actually been submitted on the website with six authors. The journal considers the final list of authors to be those listed on the title page at the first submission step. The autho… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> Case Closed </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/how-exclude-ai-generated-articles">How to exclude AI-generated articles</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> Recently, we discovered a potential problem with the use of AI-generated articles. We would like your advice on formulating a process to screen for AI-generated submissions. In the first review of an article, our Editor-in-Chief (EiC) found that the author of the manuscript had no prior history of publication, and was connected with an AI website (found during an internet search). The ar… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> On-going </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/author-requests-their-paper-published-about-19-years-ago-be-withdrawn">Authors request withdrawal of a 19-year-old article</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> We have been approached by the authors of an article published about 19 years ago stating that they have found an error in a mathematical proof in their research. As a result, although the main theorem proposed in the paper should still be true, they would need to completely revise the text and intend in the longer run to find a new proof. They recognise that the paper as published cannot stand… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> On-going </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/when-correction-retraction-and-expression-concern-could-be-considered">Correction, retraction, or expression of concern?</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> Recently, we received a review report from PubMedCentral for the indexing application of one of our journals. Reviewers pointed out several shortcomings of particular articles below: 1. Discussions that did not thoroughly address limitations, and conclusions that were over-stated and/or not supported by the results. 2. Methods that were not described clearly and in sufficient deta… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> On-going </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/stolen-ownership-rare-case">Stolen ownership of a rare case</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> A case report was published in our journal after being approved by a peer reviewer and subjected to a technical review. The first author was a post-graduate trainee attached to the department of pathology of a prestigious national institute. A month later we received an email from a resident working at a specialist department of another institute claiming that the patient belonged to them and a… </div> </div> </li><li><div class="search-result"> <div class="search-result__header"> <div class="search-result__type"> Case </div> <div class="search-result__status"> Case Closed </div> </div> <h2 class="search-result__title"> <a href="https://publicationethics.org/case/publishing-corrective-measures-eocauthor-correctionretraction-old-articles-journal-has-been">Publishing corrections for articles in inactive journals</a> </h2> <div class="search-result__date"><time>2024</time></div> <div class="search-result__snippet"> Two articles published in 2006 and 2008 (by different author groups) had image integrity concerns that have been raised to the publisher. 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