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ALPSP
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Publication
Ethics
Friday 22 September
2006
British
Chair: Fiona
Godlee, Editor, British Medical Journal
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Peer review is
widely believed to be a reliable method of quality control for most areas
of research and the most effective means of ensuring that the best work
finds its way to publication in learned journals. The process is open to
abuse, however, as effective peer review relies to a very great extent on
ethical
behaviour by authors, referees and journal editors.
This seminar examines the ethics of authorship and peer review, discusses
the various ways in which the system can be undermined, what steps can be
taken to avoid such abuses and what actions can be taken when they do
occur. The final
debate session focuses on the ethics of research funding and the
publication process, asking whether sponsoring organisations should have the right to
determine when, where and how funded research is
published. Who should attend:
Journal editors and managing editors, society
officers involved with publications policy, and editorial staff who have
responsibility for journal management and
development. |
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Programme
0930
Registration and Coffee
1000
Introduction from the Chair: Dr
Manuscript submission: Ethics of
authorship:
Author participation, author conflicts of interest,
salami and dual publication, plagiarism – two journal editors describe their own
journals’ policies and how problems are handled.
1015 Biomedical journals: Professor
1045 Humanities/social science
journals: Professor Rob Kitchin,
Managing Editor, Social and Cultural
Geography
1115 Discussion
1135
Tea/coffee
Peer review and manuscript
selection
1205 Ethics of peer review: Pros and
cons of blind and double-blind peer review, conflict of interest of editors and
reviewers, ethics of manuscript selection (e.g. worthy but not novel),
preserving quality, referee guidelines/feedback forms, manipulation of impact
factors
Professor
1235
Lunch
1335 Case study: A journal that
uses double-blinded reviewing
Dr
1405 Overstating the case –
manipulation and misinterpretation of data
Professor Doug Altman, Director,
Centre for Statistics in Medicine
14.35 Discussion
14.55
Tea/coffee
15.25
Debate: Ethics of research funding and the publication process
– to what extent should sponsoring organisations have the right to determine (directly or indirectly)
where, when and how the outcome of funded research is published?
Introduction: Dr Fiona Godlee
Participants: Dr Mark Walport, The Wellcome Trust and Diana Garnham, Science
Council
16.10
Debate open to the floor
16.40
Conclusion
1700 Close
Venue:
British
Fees: inc lunch (excl VAT) ALPSP
members £180.00; Academic £195.00; SSP/SFEP individual members £225.00; Non
Members £295.00
Further
information: Diane
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tel: +44 (0)
1827 709188
Book online at www.alpsp.org/events/2006/PET