Authorship Policy

2. Authorship Policy

AYPATE's authorship policy focuses on two fundamental aspects: ensuring proper acknowledgement of all intellectual contributors and establishing authors' responsibility for published content. This policy clearly distinguishes between two categories of participants: named authors, whose names appear in the signature of the paper and whose specific contributions are detailed in a statement, and contributors, whose contribution is acknowledged in the acknowledgements section. In this way, AYPATE seeks to provide accurate and fair attribution to all those involved in the creation of the scholarly work, while establishing a framework of accountability for the final published material.

2.1. Requirements for Named Authorship

AYPATE adheres to the guidelines established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) [1]for determining authorship of a manuscript. According to these guidelines, to be considered an author, a contributor must meet four essential criteria:

Actively participate in the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the study data.
Contribute significantly to the writing of the manuscript or provide a critical review that contributes substantial intellectual content.
Approve the final version of the work to be published.
Assume responsibility for all aspects of the study, committing to adequately investigate and resolve any issues related to the accuracy or completeness of any part of the paper.

Contributors who have made significant contributions to the manuscript but do not meet these four criteria should be acknowledged in the acknowledgements section. It is the primary author's duty to obtain written permission from all persons mentioned in this section before including them. This policy ensures fair and transparent acknowledgement of all contributions to scholarly work.

2.2. Author Contribution and CRediT taxonomy

The “Author Contributions” section is mandatory for all articles, including those with a single author. This section should detail the contributions of each author by their initials, and by doing so, all authors accept responsibility for the content of the paper.

AYPATE uses the CRediT[2] taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), which provides a standardized framework for recognizing individual contributions in research projects, with 14 roles that can describe the contributors' functions in the research results:

Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overall research objectives and goals.
Methodology: Methodology development or design; model creation.
Software: Programming, software development; design of computer programs; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Validation: Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research products.
Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Research: Conducting a process of investigation and excavation specifically, conducting experiments or collecting data/evidence.
Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory specimens, animals, instrumentation, computer resources or other analytical tools.
Data Curation: Management of activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data, and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse.
Writing - Original Draft: Preparation, creation and/or submission of published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing - Review and Editing: Preparation, creation and/or submission of the published work by the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision - including pre- or post-publication stages.
Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of published work, specifically visualization/presentation of data.
Supervision: Responsibility for oversight and leadership in the planning and execution of research activities, including mentoring external to the core team.
Project Management: Responsibility for management and coordination of the planning and execution of research activities.
Acquisition of funding: Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.

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