Authorship
Alfred Health expects its researchers to be aware of and comply
with the authorship requirements of the
Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research 2007.
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Authorship requirements of the Code.
Criteria for authorship
Researchers must offer authorship to all people, including research
trainees, who meet the criteria for authorship list below. Those
offered authorship must accept or decline in writing.
To be named as an author, a researcher must have made a substantial
scholarly contribution to the work be and able to take responsibility for at
least that part of the work they contributed.
Attribution of authorship depends to some extent on the discipline, but in all cases,
authorship must be based on substantial contributions in a combination of:
- conception and design of the project
- analysis and interpretation of research data
- drafting significant parts of the work or critically revising it so as to
contribute to the interpretation.
The right to authorship is not tied to position or profession and does not depend
on whether the contribution was paid for or voluntary. It is not enough to have provided
materials or routine technical support, or to have made the measurements on which the
publication is based. Substantial intellectual involvement is required.
A person who qualifies as an author must not be included or excluded as an
author without their permission. This should be in writing, and include a
brief description of their contribution to the work.
Source: Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research
2007.
Maintain signed acknowledgments of authorship for all publications
Where a work has several authors, one should be appointed executive author to record
authorship and to manage communication about the work with the publisher. The department
of the executive or senior author must retain the written acknowledgment of authorship
discussed above in the form of an original hand-written signature. Where it is not
practical to obtain an original signature, it is acceptable to use faxed or emailed
consent.Source: Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research
2007.
Acknowledgement of funding sources
Funding bodies must be acknowledged in publications where appropriate. For specific
wording of the acknowledgement, consult the conditions of award or applicable
deed of agreement/research contract.