Authorship and CRediT (Collaboration Roles)
Authorship
Authorship is the mention of the person or people who contributed to the realization of a study. Thus, the person who makes a substantial scientific contribution in the preparation of the study (single author), or if applicable, the group of co-authors who significantly participated in the article, are admitted as the author of a manuscript. Together, they are holders of the corresponding intellectual property rights.
Quipukamayc magazine recommends following the following criteria to determine the authorship of the article:
- Substantial contributions in the planning and preparation, design or collection of the data, analysis and interpretation of results.
- Writing of the article or argumentative and critical revision of the article.
- Approval of the final version of the article to be published.
Authors must meet these criteria to be considered as such. The authorship of the article is not justified by obtaining funding, data collection, management of administrative aspects of the research or compliance with required formats.
When submitting an article of group authorship to the journal, the list of members who are consider authors must be detailed and the corresponding author must indicate the contribution of each author in the research, as well as their order. All authors must have been sufficiently involved to accept public responsibility for the article to ensure that questions regarding the accuracy or completeness of any part of the work are properly investigated and resolved.
The author must send the names of the people or institutions that collaborated in the research, either substantially, only as advisers, or the name of the entities that have funded or that subsidized the research. If the author considers that the publication of the article could generate a conflict of interest, they must notify the editor of the journal with the submission of the article.
It is not the role of the Editorial team to make decisions about authorship/contribution.
CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy)
CRediT-Taxonomy of academic collaboration roles
The journal Quipukamayoc considers it necessary to give more visibility to the way in which each co-author of an article collaborates, with the purpose of making individual contributions explicit, reducing disputes among authors and facilitating academic participation. To achieve this objective, Quipukamayoc adheres to the use of CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to systematically indicate the type of contribution made by each author in the research process, which is presented below:
- Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
- Data curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
- Formal análisis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
- Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
- Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
- Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
- Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
- Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
- Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
- Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
- Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
- Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
- Writing (original draft): Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
- Writing (review & editing): Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.
Thus, all authors of Quipukamayoc articles must define, at the end of their manuscript, following the list of references, their contributions in relation to the predefined taxonomy of the 14 roles mentioned above, omitting those that do not correspond or do not apply, according to the type of article.
The structure is as follows:
Names and surnames (main author): contribution 1, contribution 2, etc.
Names and last names (co-author): contribution 1, contribution 2, etc.
Example:
Johanna Yancari Cueva (main author): Research, formal analysis, writing (revision and editing).
Álvaro Mamani Cárdenas (co-author): Research, methodology, writing (original draft).
Laleska Salgado Llanos (co-author): Research, conceptualization, validation, supervision, writing (original draft).
