Although many scientific journals try to provide more details about author contributions by requiring ... just two offer standardized templates for how to write them and just one requires ...

and we will explicitly encourage authors to cite original work rather than review articles to promote credit where it is due. Some of our journals already encourage author contribution statements – ...

We are clarifying the duties of lead authors and making author-contribution statements mandatory. The Nature journals encourage authors to treat their data and their collaborators with the respect ...

authors must meet the following four criteria: Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work, AND Drafting the ...

Increasingly, authors' contributions to papers have to be explicitly justified. Although opinions of what constitutes enough to warrant authorship can vary between individuals and journals ...

Although many scientific journals try to provide more details about author contributions by requiring ... just two offer standardized templates for how to write them and just one requires ...