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01-02-2021 | Guest Editorial

ICMJE criteria for authorship: why the criticisms are not justified?

Author: Mohammad Javed Ali

Published in: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology | Issue 2/2021

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Authorship in scientific publications denotes creator of an original idea or a significant intellectual contributor and is a matter of pride as well as responsibility. There are no authorship guidelines that are set in stone. Still, several recommendations are available from global bodies (ICMJE, COPE) publishers or institutional guidelines (National Institute of Health [NIH], Harvard Medical School). The fundamental spirit of each of these bodies is to ensure ethics in scientific publications, promote due credit to deserving individuals, and discourage inappropriate authorship. …

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Recommendations for conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work in medical journals. http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html [Last Accessed 22 June, 2020]

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Title: ICMJE criteria for authorship: why the criticisms are not justified?
Author: Mohammad Javed Ali
Publication date: 01-02-2021
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology / Issue 2/2021
Print ISSN: 0721-832X
Electronic ISSN: 1435-702X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-020-04825-2

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