Article Authorship Policy

Author contributions should adhere to practices such as the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system, which defines contributions as follows:

  • Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
  • Data curation – Managing activities such as annotating (producing metadata), cleaning data, and maintaining research data (including software code, where necessary).
  • Formal analysis – Applying statistical, mathematical, computational, or other techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
  • Funding acquisition – Securing financial support for the project leading to this publication.
  • Investigation – Conducting research and investigations, specifically carrying out experiments or data/evidence collection.
  • Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
  • Project administration – Managing and coordinating the planning and execution of research activities.
  • Resources – Provide study materials, reagents, materials, patients, lab samples, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analytical tools.
  • Software – Programming, software development, computational program design, implementation of supporting code and algorithms, testing.
  • Supervision – Oversee and lead research planning and execution, including external mentoring.
  • Validation – Verification, including replication/reproducibility of results/experiments.
  • Visualization – Preparing and presenting published work, particularly data visualization.
  • Writing – original draft – Preparation and drafting of the original manuscript.
  • Writing – review and editing – Critical review, commentary, or revision, including the pre- or post-publication stages.