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1. Request to withdraw as an author of an accepted but unpublished paper

   11-28 Last March we accepted a paper written by a post-doctoral fellow (PD) and an assistant professor (AP). The work was done by PD in AP's laboratory; PD has now moved on (to another country, in fact). Soon after the manuscript ...

2. Inappropriate authorship on students paper

   11-24 A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study which was a final year student's project was submitted as an original article to our journal on 30 April 2011. On initial review it was obvious that it was conducted by students ...

3. Transparency of peer review to co-authors

   11-22 An associate editor of one of our journals has asked whether we can configure our online peer review system to restrict access to reviewer correspondence to corresponding authors. His concern is that some of the review materials ...

4. Nuisance author

   10-31 You can listen to the podcast of this case from the menu on the right ...

5. Authorship dispute

   10-27 Professor X claims that he should have been a coauthor on one of two peer reviewed publications and the senior author on the other. The situation is unusual in that Professor X is now retired and his name was omitted from ...

6. Lack of acknowledgement of contributor

   10-23 Our case relates to a paper (by author’s A and B) that was retracted because of lack of acknowledgement of the contribution of another author (C). The retraction statement noted: “While the A/B paper is largely the work of A and B, ...

7. Retract, correct, or both?

   10-12 Like many journals, we do not collect actual signatures of each co-author, asking the corresponding author to declare on a form that, among other things, he/she has the authority to submit on behalf of the others ...

8. What constitutes authorship?

   10-19 Author X submitted a paper to another journal, and included author Y, a student in the same institute, as a courtesy. Author Y had drawn two figures for the paper and discussed some of the observations (all made by author X) with ...

9. Conflicting claims of intellectual property?

   10-03 Dr R, of University 1, has written an ‘official complain’ to Editor E alleging that a paper he was invited to review employs without permission a method that is the ‘background intellectual property’ (BIP) of University 1. He ...

10. Author dispute over data presented in paper

    10-04 A manuscript was submitted to our Journal in 2008. The six authors signed the author form for the Journal which accompanies all submitted manuscripts. The author form gives information on the role each author played in the study ...

11. Concern about reporting of a trial and also its DSMB

    09-10 We received a paper reporting a trial. There has only been one previous trial of this intervention in this condition that we know of (which was also done by these investigators). There were substantial issues with the reporting of ...

12. Suspected contact between reviewer and an author led to coauthorship of the reviewer

    09-05 A manuscript was submitted via our electronic submission system and processed in accordance with the standard procedures of the journal. This was originally a single author submission, and in the covering letter the author ...

13. Possible serial misconduct in relation to coauthors and other activities

    09-04 I am the editor of an international clinical journal and am facing a very unusual problem that does not fit readily into COPE flowcharts. ...

14. An authorship dispute and a question about when a paper is considered published

    09-02  Authors A and B submitted a paper PV1 to an international conference which was accepted by the editor E of the conference proceedings. The copyright of the paper was assigned to the publishers PC of the conference proceedings. The ...

15. Advice regarding a weird type of content and its authorship

    08-28 Our company publishes clinical pathways. ...

16. Author did not see reviews or revisions to the manuscript and did not give approval for publication

    08-21 Approximately 1 year after publication of an article, we received a letter from one of the authors saying that they had not seen the reviews of the paper, the revisions of the paper or approved the final manuscript for publication. ...

17. Dispute among authors

    08-14 Our journal has received a paper describing a study that originated as more than one trial in more than one country, with collaboration by researchers in another country. The DSMB considered and agreed a proposal to combine the ...

18. A member of an author group listed on a paper denies authorship

    08-08 We publish “mini-reviews” of published articles. Our faculty of eminent researchers and clinicians write these evaluations. One of the conditions we insist on from our faculty is that they may not evaluate work on which they are an ...

19. Incorrect allegations from the head of an institute?

    07-41 After a number of appeals and revisions, and having satisfied ourselves about the results being “too good to be true”, we eventually accepted a paper. In September 2007, we received a letter from the head of the institute (and also ...

20. Author approval for response to mini-reviews

    07-35 We publish mini-reviews of important articles from the medical literature. In order to give the authors of reviewed articles a chance to respond to the review, we have now started to contact the corresponding author once a review ...

21. Signing on behalf of other authors

    07-18 The editors received a manuscript from a Far Eastern country ready to accept. The senior author (who has spent a lot of time in the West) was in the US when the editors asked for final signatures to be sent.  The senior author ...

22. Prolific authors

    07-04 We have noticed some authors who are publishing at a rate that is exceptionally high. ...

23. Possible fabricated data: a conspiracy of silence?

    06-18 I became involved in this issue after reports from doctors in a developing country that three papers in a systematic review published by my company may have been fabricated. ...