Authorship
Each of the authors must meet all four criteria of authorship listed below.
Authors can be persons:
- who have made a significant contribution to the development of the concept or planning of the academic work or to the receipt, analysis, or interpretation of relevant scientific data;
- who were involved in the drafting of the paper or its critical revision with the introduction of valuable intellectual content;
- who accepted the final approval of the published version of the paper;
- who have agreed to assume responsibility for all aspects of the work and ensure that all issues related to the accuracy and integrity of any part of the work can be properly investigated and resolved.
In addition to being responsible for the parts of the work that the author did him/herself, he/she should have a full understanding of the nature of the contribution and the integrity of all co-authors of the submitted work.
All persons designated as authors must meet all four criteria set for an author, and all persons meeting these four criteria must be identified as authors. Persons who do not meet all four criteria should be mentioned in the article in the “Acknowledgements” section.
If the authors wish to make changes to the list of authors after the paper has been sent to the editorial office, according to the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), it is necessary to provide the editor with a written justification for the reasons for making changes to the author’s team, with a detailed description of the contribution of the added and/or deleted authors, which must be signed by all the authors of this paper.
If there are disagreements between the authors, consideration of the article stops until an agreed decision is made within the author’s team.
If the article has already been published and a volume and issue number have been assigned, any requests for authorship changes approved by the editor will lead to the publication of corrections.
The editorial board reserves the right to request additional documents confirming the validity of changes to the authorship.
When reviewing a paper, the editorial board verifies the material using an anti-plagiarism system. English-language papers may be additionally checked in the plagiarism verification program “iThenticate”. In cases of the detection of numerous unregistered instances of copying, the editorial board will act in accordance with COPE rules.
For more information about authorship, see the relevant section.
