Question

1. What are the responsibilities of authors in representing the contribution of others?

2. what criteria should be applied when determining whether to list someone as an author; to note someone's contributions in the acknowledgments?

Criteria for Authorship and Attribution CASE B3 Bob Powell, a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry, has just completed a manuscript detailing the results from the first project in which he had taken a leading role. The focus of his project has been to discern the ways in which humans metabolize sulfites, a class of chemicals commonly used to preserve wines and dried fruits. Although he had developed the rough outlines of the project on his own, he owes much to individuals both inside and outside his lab. The assistance he received from others includes the following: A colleague at another university, a toxicologist specializing in food additives, shared with Bob his previous work on the in viva activity of sulfites, information that allowed Bob to choose the ideal animal model for the experiment -- the Abyssinian field mouse. A friend of his, who happened to be a wildlife specialist, provided Bob with much advice on rearing and maintaining a colony of Abyssinian field mice such that he would have a stable pool of animal subjects. A highly experienced technician in the lab gave Bob advice on modifying an assay he had been using, which finally allowed him to measure successfully sulfite metabolites in mouse urine. This technician also assisted in writing up the methods section of the paper. The number of assays that Bob had to conduct was quite sizable and more than he could manage on his own, given other demands of the project. Thus, an undergraduate college student collected most of the urine samples and conducted the assays yielding the data. Finally, a senior researcher in a neighboring lab who took an interest in Bob's career offered to review the initial drafts of Bob's paper. By the end of the writing process, this researcher had helped Bob outline the paper, suggested a few additional experiments that strengthened the paper's conclusions, and made a number of editing changes in the penultimate draft that enhanced the paper's clarity.

Answer 1

1. The author responsibility in representing the contribution of others are:

• Confidentiality: The author should hold the information of study between their own and journals with confidence. The relationship of author editor is found to be confidential.
• Originality: The originality of the study or research is a major responsibility of the author in representing the contribution of others. The originality of the study and sample procedure should be maintained.
• Disclosure: Disclose the source of study, contribution , funding system to the journals by the editor.
• Copyright: The copyright assignments is a medical legal documents to the publisher by the author. The author have certain rights on the study assign to the publisher.
• Permission: The permission from the website or the publisher is required if author using a image documents that are previously published.
• Multiple submission: In medical multiple submission of article in multiple journals is not possible.
• Data sharing: Before submitting the data set to the journal, study and review the data sharing policies of all journals.
• Registration for clinical trials: It is important in study to get registered for clinical trial.

2. Author criteria is based on ICMJE ( international committee of medical journal editors)

• Contribution should be substantial for design , data collection, data interpretation.
• Revising the article to get important content that is intellectual.
• Revised final version of study published
• Accountable agreement and questions related intergirty of work are investigated ans solved.