Authorship Policy
Authorship
The journal MedEst, in accordance with the recommendations for conducting, reporting, editing, and publishing academic work in medical journals issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org), considers an "author" to be someone who meets all the following criteria:
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Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the research/scientific work; or the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data.
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Drafting or critically revising the final report.
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Approval of the final version of the report to be published.
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Taking responsibility for all aspects of the work to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are properly investigated and resolved.
No changes to authorship (including order, number of authors, or their contributions) will be accepted once the work has been submitted to the journal's platform.
Authors of MedEst journal submissions in the original articles section must define the authorship contributions of the different authors according to the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy).
CRediT includes 14 roles that can be used to represent the typical contributions of collaborators in academic scientific production. The roles describe the specific contribution of each collaborator to the scholarly output.
Each role is defined as follows:
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Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
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Data Curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data, and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary for data interpretation) for initial and future reuse.
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Formal Analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
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Funding Acquisition – Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.
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Investigation – Conducting research and investigation processes, specifically performing experiments or data/evidence collection.
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Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
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Project Administration – Management and coordination responsibility for research activity planning and execution.
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Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
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Software – Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of supporting code and algorithms; testing of existing code components.
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Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
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Validation – Verification, whether as part of the activity or separate, of the overall replicability/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
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Visualization – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically data visualization/presentation.
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Writing – Original Draft – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically drafting the initial version (including substantive translation).
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Writing – Review & Editing – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision—including pre- or post-publication stages.
The CRediT taxonomy provides a way to encode contribution information within the article's XML files. It identifies the specific nature of an individual's contribution to the research material. Its purpose is to provide transparency regarding contributions to published work by scholars, enabling improved attribution, credit, and accountability systems. The goal of this recommendation is to promote transparency in contribution information within the article’s XML and ensure that contribution types are encoded in a machine-readable and optimally reusable format.
Authorship roles will be identified in the order listed below, including each author in their respective role(s) and omitting roles that do not apply in each case.
Example:
Authorship Contribution
Author (full name): Conceptualization, Formal Analysis, Investigation.
Author (full name): Methodology, Software, …
Author (full name): …
Author (full name): …
About the Digital ORCID Identifier
The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a unique 16-digit identifier designed to provide researchers with an unambiguous author code that clearly distinguishes their scientific output, avoiding confusion related to scientific authorship and the existence of matching or similar names. As such, its use has become a mandatory requirement for scientific publications and communications.
To edit an ORCID record and complete data, simply follow the hyperlink sent by ORCID or log in to the website with your chosen username and password. If you have not yet created an ORCID, you can do so at https://orcid.org/.
Compliance with these guidelines is mandatory, as non-compliant submissions may be rejected.
