Contributions by authors

                                                     

The journal adopts the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CrediT) to determine the authors’ contributions to a single paper. It is essential that authors define their roles in the production of a scientific article to ensure clarity regarding each author’s responsibilities from start to finish. The taxonomy highlights 14 roles that must be assigned to authors during the article submission process, in the final section of the template provided by the journal:

Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or development of the general objectives and goals of the research.

Data curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean, and maintain research data (including software code, when necessary for the interpretation of the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse.

Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

Funding Acquisition: Securing financial support for the project that led to this publication.

Research: Conducting a research process, specifically by performing experiments or collecting data/evidence.

Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Project administration: Responsibility for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of the research activity.

Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, supplies, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computational resources, or other analytical tools.

Software: Programming, software development; design of computer programs; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.

Supervision: Responsibility for supervising and leading the planning and execution of the research activity, including mentoring outside the core team.

Validation: Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the general replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research findings.

Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically data visualization/presentation.

Writing – original draft – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft (including substantial translation).

Writing – review and editing – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of work published by members of the original research group, specifically critical reviews, commentaries, or reviews—including pre- or post-publication stages.