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Transparency in Authors’ Contributions and Responsibilities to Promote Integrity in Scientific Publication

View ORCID ProfileMarcia McNutt, View ORCID ProfileMonica Bradford, View ORCID ProfileJeffrey Drazen, View ORCID ProfileBrooks Hanson, View ORCID ProfileBob Howard, View ORCID ProfileKathleen Hall Jamieson, View ORCID ProfileVéronique Kiermer, View ORCID ProfileMichael Magoulias, View ORCID ProfileEmilie Marcus, View ORCID ProfileBarbara Kline Pope, View ORCID ProfileRandy Schekman, View ORCID ProfileSowmya Swaminathan, View ORCID ProfilePeter Stang, View ORCID ProfileInder Verma
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/140228
Marcia McNutt
1National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Monica Bradford
2Science, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Jeffrey Drazen
3New England Journal of Medicine, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Brooks Hanson
4American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Bob Howard
5SAGE Publishing, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson
6Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Véronique Kiermer
7PLOS (Public Library of Science), San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Michael Magoulias
8University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Emilie Marcus
9Cell Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Barbara Kline Pope
10The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Randy Schekman
11University of California, Berkeley, United States of America; and eLife, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Sowmya Swaminathan
12Nature Research, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Peter Stang
13The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America; and Journal of the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Inder Verma
14Salk Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America; and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the Unites States of America, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Abstract

In keeping with the growing movement in scientific publishing toward transparency in data and methods, we argue that the names of authors accompanying journal articles should provide insight into who is responsible for which contributions, a process should exist to confirm that the list is complete, clearly articulated standards should establish whether and when the contributions of an individual justify authorship credit, and those involved in the generation of scientific knowledge should follow these best practices.

To accomplish these goals, we recommend that journals adopt common and transparent standards for authorship, outline responsibilities for corresponding authors, adopt the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy)1 methodology for attributing contributions, include this information in article metadata, and encourage authors to use the digital persistent identifier ORCID.2 Furthermore, we suggest that research institutions have regular open conversations on authorship criteria and ethics and that funding agencies adopt ORCID and accept CRediT. Scientific societies should further authorship transparency by promoting these recommendations through their meetings and publications programs.

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Transparency in Authors’ Contributions and Responsibilities to Promote Integrity in Scientific Publication
Marcia McNutt, Monica Bradford, Jeffrey Drazen, Brooks Hanson, Bob Howard, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Véronique Kiermer, Michael Magoulias, Emilie Marcus, Barbara Kline Pope, Randy Schekman, Sowmya Swaminathan, Peter Stang, Inder Verma
bioRxiv 140228; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/140228
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Transparency in Authors’ Contributions and Responsibilities to Promote Integrity in Scientific Publication
Marcia McNutt, Monica Bradford, Jeffrey Drazen, Brooks Hanson, Bob Howard, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Véronique Kiermer, Michael Magoulias, Emilie Marcus, Barbara Kline Pope, Randy Schekman, Sowmya Swaminathan, Peter Stang, Inder Verma
bioRxiv 140228; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/140228

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