{"id":3939,"date":"2023-01-18T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.centre-mersenne.org\/cope-best-practice-guide\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T15:03:24","slug":"cope-best-practice-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centre-mersenne.org\/en\/cope-best-practice-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"COPE : Best Practice Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COPE , <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Committee on Publication Ethics<\/a>, supports and educates those involved in scientific publishing in ethical matters.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>In 2017, COPE published a <a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">good practice guide<\/a> on ethical issues. This COPE guide provides tools for dealing with a crisis situation. Thus, for each situation, COPE proposes an example of an appropriate response. For example, if the journal is suspected of irregularities during the peer review process, COPE provides a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/files\/peer-review-manipulation-during-review-cope-flowchart.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/files\/peer-review-manipulation-during-review-cope-flowchart.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">decision tree<\/a> to address the crisis situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.centre-mersenne.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COPE_logo_colour.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centre-mersenne.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COPE_logo_colour.png 320w, https:\/\/www.centre-mersenne.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COPE_logo_colour-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The tools<\/h2>\n\n<p>COPE presents different tools to best manage an ethical problem within a journal: decision charts, case studies, guidelines, standards, seminars&#8230; These tools allow journals to anticipate difficulties and to think about action plans.<\/p>\n\n<p>Examples of tools proposed by COPE:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>guidelines: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/resources\/guidelines-new\/short-guide-ethical-editing-new-editors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>A short guide to ethicalediting for new editors<\/u><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/retraction-guidelines\"><u>Retraction guidelines<\/u><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/resources\/guidelines-new\/how-handle-authorship-disputesa-guide-new-researchers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>How to handleauthorship disputes: a guide for new researchers<\/u><\/a>, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>case studies: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/case\/manuscript-submitted-based-retracted-paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Manuscriptsubmittedbased on retractedpaper<\/u><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/case\/reviewers-identity-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Reviewer&#8217;sidentityrevealed<\/u><\/a>, Editor manipulation of impact factor, etc<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>decision charts:<a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/resources\/flowcharts\/peer-review-manipulation-suspected-during-peer-review-process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Peer review manipulation suspectedduring the peerreview process<\/u><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/resources\/flowcharts\/reviewer-suspected-have-appropriated-authors-ideas-or-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Reviewersuspected to have appropriated an author\u2019sideas or data<\/u><\/a>, etc. All decision charts have been translated into <a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/resources\/flowcharts\/french-all-flowcharts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>French<\/u><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>discussions, conferences, research articles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ethical issues<\/h2>\n\n<p>Journals need to be prepared for crisis management in order to be able to respond promptly and appropriately. COPE recommends that publishing actors publicly and clearly document their practices in the following ten areas<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Allegations of misconduct<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Authorship and contributions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Complaints against the journal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conflict of interest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Data and replicability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intellectual property<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Management of the journal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peer review process<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Post-publication discussions and corrections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPE has published a good practice guide on ethical issues. 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