COPE issues revised retraction guidelines addressing paper mills and third-party involvement
(11 Sept 2025) The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has released new retraction guidelines designed to address growing challenges such as paper mill activity, fraudulent authorship, and undeclared third-party involvement. The new framework specifies that journals should retract work when authorship cannot be verified, when accountability is uncertain, or when any form of misrepresentation—including deception, fraud (e.g., a…
