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. 2019;89(2):105-111.
doi: 10.24875/ACM.M19000044.

Authorship: From credit to accountability - Reflections from the Editors' network

Fernando Alfonso  1 , Parounak Zelveian  2 , Jean-Jacques Monsuez  3 , Michael Aschermann  4 , Michael Boehm  5 , Alfonso Buendía-Hernández  6 , Tzung-Dau Wang  7 , Ariel Cohen  8 , Sebija Izetbegovic  9 , Anton Doubell  10 , Dario Echeverri  11 , Nuray Enç  12 , Ignacio Ferreira-González  13 , Anetta Undas  14 , Ulrike Fortmüller  15 , Plamen Gatzov  16 , Carmen Ginghina  17 , Lino Goncalves  18 , Faouzi Addad  19 , Mahmoud Hassanein  20 , Gerd Heusch  21 , Kurt Huber  22 , Robert Hatala  23 , Mario Ivanusa  24 , Chu-Pak Lau  25 , Germanas Marinskis  26 , Livio Dei-Cas  27 , Carlos E Rochitte  28 , Kjell Nikus  29 , Eckart Fleck  30 , Luc Pierard  31 , Slobodan Obradović  32 , María Del P Aguilar-Passano  33 , Yangsoo Jang  34 , Olaf Rødevand  35 , Mikael Sander  36 , Evgeny Shlyakhto  37 , Çetin Erol  38 , Dimitris Tousoulis  39 , Dilek Ural  40 , Jan J Piek  41 , Albert Varga  42 , Andreas J Flammer/François Mach  43 , Alban Dibra  44 , Faiq Guliyev  45 , Alexander Mrochek  46 , Mamanti Rogava  47 , Ismael Guzmán-Melgar  48 , Giuseppe Di Pasquale  49 , Kanat Kabdrakhmanov  50 , Laila Haddour  51 , Zlatko Fras  52 , Claes Held  53 , Valentyn Shumakov  54
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Authorship: From credit to accountability - Reflections from the Editors' network

Fernando Alfonso et al. Arch Cardiol Mex. 2019.

Abstract

The Editors' Network of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) provides a dynamic forum for editorial discussions and endorses the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) to improve the scientific quality of biomedical journals. Authorship confers credit and important academic rewards. Recently, however, the ICMJE emphasized that authorship also requires responsibility and accountability. These issues are now covered by the new -(fourth) criterion for authorship. Authors should agree to be accountable and ensure that questions regarding the accuracy and integrity of the entire work will be appropriately addressed. This review discusses the implications of this paradigm shift on authorship requirements with the aim of increasing awareness on good scientific and editorial practices.

Keywords: Accountability; Authorship; Editorial ethics; Journals; Scientific Journals; Scientific Process.

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