Authorship Criteria
Authorship confers credit and has important academic, social, and financial implications. Authorship also implies responsibility and accountability for published work. The ICMJE has developed criteria for authorship that can be used by all journals, including those that distinguish authors from other contributors.
Asian Business Review follows that authorship be based on the ICMJE recommended 4 criteria:
Non-Author Contributors
Contributors who meet fewer than all 4 of the above criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors, but they should be acknowledged. Because acknowledgment may imply endorsement by acknowledged individuals of a study’s data and conclusions.
Asian Business Review follows that authorship be based on the ICMJE recommended 4 criteria:
- 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.
Non-Author Contributors
Contributors who meet fewer than all 4 of the above criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors, but they should be acknowledged. Because acknowledgment may imply endorsement by acknowledged individuals of a study’s data and conclusions.