EW is self-employed and received no funding for time spent on this article. EW is the former Chair of COPE (the Committee On Publication Ethics) and an author of the COPE guidelines on cooperation between journals and institutions. This was an unpaid position, but COPE covered her travel and accommodation expenses for attending meetings. She provides consultancy and training for academic institutions, publishers, and pharmaceutical companies. SK is Senior Executive Editor at The Lancet with responsibility for research integrity, the former vice-chair of COPE and current co-chair of the 7th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), and a member of the WCRI Foundation Steering Committee. The CLUE workshop was funded by the European Molecular Biology Organization and COPE. Ksenija Bazdaric (editor-in-chief of European Science Editing) was a member of the CLUE Working Group. She commissioned this editorial but was not responsible for the decision to publish.