Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers Essential principles for reviewers in approaching and writing reviews, and aiding editors, publishers, and institutions in giving guidance across disciplines.

COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) is redeveloping its website and the Ethical Guidelines for #PeerReviewers are no longer where given above. Can be found via
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Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers Find out the principles and standards to which all peer reviewers should work to during the peer review process in research publication

#FakePeerReview prompted the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers in 2013 "impersonation of another individual during the review process is considered serious misconduct”.Lots of useful info in current version on being a #peerreviewer
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Compromised peer review system in published papers On noticing a high volume of submissions from corresponding author A, editor X flagged up concerns with the preferred reviewers being suggested and their comments. Author A had in most cases suggested

More cases followed in 2012: 12-12 'Compromised peer review system in published papers' and 12-16 'Compromised peer review (unpublished)'
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Author creates bogus email accounts for proposed reviewers Recently, as co-editor of my journal, I received a manuscript submitted for publication. The author had recommended two reviewers along with their Gmail accounts and affiliations. I was curious about

I was on COPE’s Council in 2011 when an editor submitted for advice the first case of fake peer review we’d come across and we were shocked: case 11-27 'Author creates bogus email accounts for proposed reviewers'

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How to recognise potential manipulation of the peer review process How to recognise potential manipulation of the peer review process.

Fake peer review: @retractionwatch.com has lots of examples, COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) has guidance on helping recognise it and features/patterns of questionable reviewer activity
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