Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Authorship for Health Sciences Librarians

ICMJE definition:
“Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3.”
From: Ethical Considerations in the Conduct and Reporting of Research: Authorship and Contributorship, at http://www.icmje.org/ethical_1author.html

Authorship
  • If a conference presentation is based on original research and you are one of its authors
  • In a systematic review, if you made a unique and substantial contribution - i.e. data collection, writing up methodology
  • If listed as an author, need to at least see and have the chance to contribute.
  • Considerations on listing authors and the order of authors may be different when working with ourselves or working with patrons (other health care professionals)
  • Orders of authors: last could be PI or supervisor, first could be project lead (this seems to be the norm in our literature, this is negotiable and variable
  • It may be a requirement to indicate different roles of authors by certain journals.
Acknowledgements
  • If publication is tangential to original research
  • In systematic review, if you acted as a consultant instead of primary data collector


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