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Understanding Authorship Criteria Video for the College of Computing and Informatics

Tailored for the College of Computing and Informatics, this video describes how authors may plan for writing manuscripts, especially with multiple authors.

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Alberts, B. (2010). Promoting scientific standards. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5961), 12. doi:10.1126/science.1185983
Amber Dance. (2012). Authorship: Who’s on first? Nature, 489(7417), 591. doi:10.1038/nj7417-591a
Committee on Publication Ethics
The Committee on Publication Ethics or COPE is a charitable company established to provide services and products aimed primarily at editors and publishers of scholarly journals and designed to provide advice and guidance on best practice for dealing with ethical issues in journal publishing.
CRediT: Contributor Roles Taxonomy
CASRAI's CRediT is high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to scientific scholarly output. The roles describe each contributor’s specific contribution to the scholarly output.
CRediT: Contributor Roles Taxonomy
A classification system of contributor roles is described by the CASRAI non-profit initiative (Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information).
Furman, R. (2007). Collaboration. In Practical tips for publishing scholarly articles : writing and publishing in the helping professions (pp.66-71) . Chicago, Ill.: Lyceum Books.
How to handle authorship disputes: a guide for new researchers
Link to document about helping new researchers prevent and resolve authorship problems.
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. (2017, December). Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals.
Rennie, D., and Yank, V. (1998). If authors became contributors, everyone would gain, especially the reader. American Journal of Public Health, 88(5), 828–830.
Shaw, D., and Elger, B. (2017). The Ghost Collaborator. Accountability in Research, 24(1), 43–51. doi:10.1080/08989621.2016.1207535
Trimbur, J., and Braun, L. A. (1992). Laboratory Life and the Determination of Authorship. In J. Forman (Ed.), New Visions of Collaborative Writing (pp. 19–36). Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook Publishers.
Tscharntke, T., Hochberg, M., Rand, T., Resh, V., and Krauss, J. (2007). Author Sequence and Credit for Contributions in Multiauthored Publications. PLoS Biology, 5(1). doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050018
Wren, J., Kozak, K., Johnson, K., Deakyne, S., Schilling, L., and Dellavalle, R. (2007). The write position. EMBO reports, 8(11), 988–991. doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7401095

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Understanding Authorship Criteria Video for the College of Computing and Informatics

Co-Authorship Standards and Suggestions Resources