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The invitation came from a journal with the same name as ours but a different ISSN.</p></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="node-56824" class="node node-case node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="listing-card__type">Case</div> <h2> <a href="/case/whether-equally-contributing-authors-have-same-contribution-author-contributions-section">Contributor roles of contributing authors</a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24-24</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-anonymised-text-of-the-ca field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>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?<br /> 聽</p> </div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="node-56823" class="node node-case node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="listing-card__type">Case</div> <h2> <a href="/case/geopolitical-boundaries-questioned-published-article">Geopolitical boundaries questioned in a published article</a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24-23</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-anonymised-text-of-the-ca field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the <a href="https://publicationethics.org/copeforum">COPE Forum</a> where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance.</em></p></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="node-56822" class="node node-case node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="listing-card__type">Case</div> <h2> <a href="/case/author-deceased-prior-submission">Author deceased prior to submission</a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24-22</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-anonymised-text-of-the-ca field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the <a href="https://publicationethics.org/copeforum">COPE Forum</a> where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance.</em></p></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="node-56818" class="node node-case node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="listing-card__type">Case</div> <h2> <a href="/case/defenserepresentation-author-accused-plagiarism-or-other-misconduct-and-avoiding-conflict">Plagiarism, duplicate publication, and conflicts of interest: developing policies</a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24-21</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-anonymised-text-of-the-ca field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>Advice on this case is from a small number of COPE Council Members. Most cases on the COPE website are presented to the <a href="https://publicationethics.org/copeforum">COPE Forum</a> where advice is offered by a wider group of COPE Members and COPE Council Members. Advice on individual cases is not formal COPE guidance.</em></p></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="node-56797" class="node node-case node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="listing-card__type">Case</div> <h2> <a href="/case/using-secondary-data-sets-statistical-modeling">Authorship when data sets are reused as secondary data</a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24-25</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-anonymised-text-of-the-ca field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>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 interpreting the results.聽</p></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="node-56696" class="node node-case node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="listing-card__type">Case</div> <h2> <a href="/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="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24-18</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-anonymised-text-of-the-ca field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>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.聽</p></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="node-56688" class="node node-case node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="listing-card__type">Case</div> <h2> <a href="/case/handling-undisclosed-conflict-interest-which-attracting-controversy">Handling an undisclosed conflict of interest which is attracting controversy</a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24-17</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-anonymised-text-of-the-ca field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>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.</p></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="node-56684" class="node node-case node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="listing-card__type">Case</div> <h2> <a href="/case/handling-contentious-authorship-disputes">Handling contentious authorship disputes</a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24-16</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-anonymised-text-of-the-ca field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>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.</p></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="node-56682" class="node node-case node-teaser clearfix"> <div class="listing-card__type">Case</div> <h2> <a href="/case/how-exclude-ai-generated-articles">How to exclude AI-generated articles</a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">24-15</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-anonymised-text-of-the-ca field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Recently, we discovered a potential problem with the use of AI-generated articles. 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