QUALIFICATION FOR AUTHORSHIP

 

IMPAQT℠  follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, sufficient evidence of the following criteria should be capable of production upon request: 

  • Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND 

  • Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND 

  • Final approval of the version to be published; AND 

  • Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. 

Group authorship may be used where specified authors (not more than 10) assume responsibility for the entire group (e.g., Paula T. Einhorn, Barry R. Davis, Barry M. Massie for the ALLHAT Collaborative Research Group). In this case, only the specified authors must meet the criteria for authorship outlined above, and all members of the group may be listed in a footnote but are not acknowledged as authors.  

The Submitting Author must ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript, are included in the author section of the separate Title page, and that the order of author names and all spellings and credentials of authors are correct. 

Any change to the author list should be approved by all authors, including any who have been removed from the list. At least one named author (e.g., the principal investigator) who is independent of any commercial funder or sponsor must be designated as the Submitting Author, and will serve as the agreed upon "guarantor" of the study (i.e., he or she had full access to all the data in the study, and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis). The Submitting Author will act as a point of contact with the IMPAQT℠  editorial staff, and should communicate with the other authors, keep them informed, and ensure their involvement in major decisions about the publication. IMPAQT℠  reserves the right to request confirmation that all authors meet the authorship conditions.