Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: April 2019 [as they finish their terms]

[Andy]

We often reflect on COPE’s inspiring work here in COPE Digest. That includes the work we’re all doing to keep up with and lead change in publishing ethics as research publishing and research practices evolve. We both particularly enjoyed writing our two “end of year” letters. At the end of 2017 we wrote a review of everything that’s new from COPE, and in 2018 we looked at how we're responding to change.

May 2019 marks the end of our term as Co-Chairs. So, before our incoming COPE Chair Deborah Poff introduces herself next month (a warm welcome to you, Deborah!), we offer reflections on what we’ve learned, what we think is true now, and what we think will remain true as COPE grows. We’ve used words, of course, but also we’ve shared evidence of the actions COPE has taken to make those words come alive. These are the lessons we’ve learned.

https://publicationethics.org/news/letter-cope-co-chairs-april-2019

 

[Esther12]

Here are the embarassingly appalling responses from COPE to two issues with Esther Crawleys work (or at least they look like it, they're somewhat anonymised):

https://publicationethics.org/case/service-evaluation-research-controversial-area-medicine

https://publicationethics.org/case/retrospective-registration-outcome-switching-and-ethical-approval

 

[alktipping]

what a useless bunch who actually pays them to sit on their arses ignoring the absolute drivel that is often published especially in so called academic papers.

 

[NelliePledge]

Think I saw in an article posted on here somewhere that Horton was one of the founders of COPE. So it’s just like the press complaints body that was around when all the phione hacking was going on - all for appearance- but when it speaks its just gums