Journal policies on authorship and disclosures

Authorship and contribution disclosures

Most scientific research is performed by teams, and for a long time, observers have inferred individual team members' contributions by interpreting author order on published articles. In response to increasing concerns about this approach, journals are adopting policies that require the disclosure of individual authors' contributions. However, it is not clear whether and how these disclosures i...

Refining our policies on co-authorship requirements

Conflicts of interest, authorship, and disclosures in industry-related scientific publications.

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The policies of Cases Journal

Case reports can eventually be submitted by anybody [1] patients, doctors, nurses, relatives, anybody but we are starting with simply clinicians. We are providing a template [2] that will make it easy for authors to include the information that every case report should contain (age, sex, etc), but authors don t have to use the template. We want to make it as easy as possible for authors to subm...

From disclosure to transparency: the use of company payment data.

BACKGROUND It has become standard practice in medical journals to require authors to disclose their relationships with industry. However, these requirements vary among journals and often lack specificity. As a result, disclosures may not consistently reveal author-industry ties. METHODS We examined the 2007 physician payment information from 5 orthopedic device companies to evaluate the curre...