About authorship

Revista Médica Electrónica, in accordance with the recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing and publication of scholarly works in medical journals, published by the International Committee of Medical Journals Editors (www.icmje.org), considers an “author” to be one who meets all of the following criteria:

  1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the research/scientific work; or the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of the data;
  2. To write/prepare the final report or critically review its content;
  3. Approval of the final version of the report to be published;
  4. To be responsible for all aspects of the work to ensure that questions regarding the accuracy or completeness of any part of the work are properly investigated and resolved.

Changes in authorship will not be accepted once the paper has been uploaded to the journal’s platform, neither in the order nor in the number of authors or their contribution.

Authors of papers of Revista Médica Electrónica in the sections original articles and short communications should define the authorship contribution of the different authors of the paper according to CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy).

CRediT includes 14 functions that could be used to represent those typically performed by contributors to academic scientific production. The roles describe the specific contribution of each contributor to scientific output.

Each role is defined in the following way:

  • Conceptualization – ideas; formulation or evolution of the overall objectives and goals of the research;
  • Data curation - management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary to interpret the data themselves) for initial use and subsequent reuse;
  • Formal analysis – application of statistical, mathematical, computational or other formal techniques to analyze and synthesize study data;
  • Funds acquisition – acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication;
  • Research – conducting a research and research process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection; 
  • Methodology – methodology development or design; modeling;
  • Project managing – management responsibility and coordination of the planning and execution of the research activity;
  • Resources – provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory specimens, animals, instrumentation, computational resources and other analytical tools;
  • Software – programming, software development; design of computer programs; implementation of computer codex and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components;
  • Supervision – supervising and leadership responsibility for planning and execution of research activities, including   external mentoring to the main team;
  • Validation – Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the general replicability of the results/experiments and other research outcomes;
  • Visualization – preparation, creation and/or presentation of published work, specifically the visualization/presentation of data;
  • Writing – original draft – preparation, creation and/or presentation of published work, specifically the writing of the original draft (including substantive translation);
  • Writing – reviewing and editing – preparation, creation and/or presentation of published work by the members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including the pre- or post-publication stages.

The CRediT taxonomy provides a way to encode contribution information within article XML files.  It identifies the specific nature of an individual contribution with respect to the available research material. Its purpose is to provide transparency in scholars’ contributions to published work by academics, to enable ameliorated systems of attribution, credit and accountability. The aim of this recommendation is to promote transparency of the contribution information in the article XML and to ensure that contribution types are encoded in a machine-readable way and optimized for reuse.

Authorship roles will be identified in the order shown below, including each author/s in the role/s that correspond to him/her, and omitting the roles that do not apply in each case.

Example:

Authorship contribution

Author (full name): conceptualization, formal analysis, research. 

Author (full name): methodology, software …

Author (full name): …

Author (full name): …