Authorship policy

The journal recognizes individuals listed as authors provided they meet the universally established criteria for authorship of scientific articles. Authors will be required to submit a signed authorship statement from each contributor, detailing their role in the research based on the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT).

Authorship roles will be identified in the following order, specifying applicable roles for each author and omitting non-relevant ones:

Conceptualization: Ideas, formulation, or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data Curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), cleanse data, and maintain research data (including software code where necessary for data interpretation) for initial use and future 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 leading to this publication.

Investigation: Conducting research processes, specifically performing experiments, data/evidence collection, or fieldwork.

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

Project Administration: Responsibility for management and coordination of research activity planning/execution.

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

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

Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for research planning/execution, including mentorship of research team members.

Validation: Verification (whether as part of activity or separate) of overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outcomes.

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

Writing – Original Draft: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work, specifically initial draft writing (including substantive translation).

Writing – Review & Editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work by original research group members, specifically critical commentary/revision (pre- and post-publication stages).