Authorship Policy

 

MedEst Journal, in accordance with the recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work in medical journals published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org), considers an "author" to be someone who meets all of the following conditions:

  1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the research or scholarly work; or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data.

  2. Drafting or critically revising the work for important intellectual content.

  3. Final approval of the version to be published.

  4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work, ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

No changes in authorship —neither in order, nor in the number of authors, nor in the assigned contributions— will be accepted once the work has been submitted to the journal's platform.

Authors of original articles published in MedEst Journal must define the contribution of each author according to the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy).

CRediT includes 14 roles that can be used to represent the functions typically performed by contributors to academic scholarly output. These roles describe the specific contribution of each collaborator.

Definition of CRediT roles:

  • Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

  • Data Curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data, and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

  • Formal Analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

  • Funding Acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.

  • Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

  • Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

  • Project Administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

  • Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.

  • Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.

  • Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.

  • Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.

  • Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

  • Writing – Original Draft: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

  • Writing – Review & Editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from 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 published research material. Its purpose is to provide transparency in contributions to scholarly published work, to enable improved attribution, credit, and accountability systems, and to ensure that contribution types are encoded in a machine-readable and optimised way for reuse.

Authorship roles will be identified following the order shown below, including each author in the role or roles that correspond to them, and omitting those that do not apply in each case.

Example of authorship contribution statement:

  • Author (full name): conceptualization, formal analysis, investigation.

  • Author (full name): methodology, software, data curation.

  • Author (full name): writing – review & editing, visualization.

  • Author (full name): project administration, funding acquisition, supervision.