Editors: how to identify potential fraudulent activity in your journal

Natalie_Ridgeway
Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:25:26 +0000
Publishing Ethics

Systematic manipulation of the publication process is where an individual or a group of individuals aim to guarantee publication by repeatedly used dishonest or fraudulent practices. This includes fraudulent activity such as paper mills, peer review manipulation; inappropriate attribution of authorship; publishing fabricated or plagiarised research etc.

COPE has a number of guidance documents and flowcharts to help you spot, identify and prevent fraudulent activity in you journal.

Systematic manipulation of the publication process

Addressing concerns about systematic manipulation of the publication process (supplement to the above guidance)

How to recognise potential manipulation of the peer review process

Peer review manipulation suspected during the peer review process

Image manipulation in a published article

How to recognise potential authorship problems

Fabricated data in a submitted manuscript

Fabricated data in a published article

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