Authorship

Authorship

Wiraraja Medika: Jurnal Kesehatan follows the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) on authorship. Authorship confers credit and carries accountability for the published work. All persons designated as authors must qualify for authorship, and all who qualify should be listed.

1. Criteria for Authorship

An author is expected to meet all four of the following criteria:

  1. Made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work;
  2. Drafted the work or revised it critically for important intellectual content;
  3. Gave final approval of the version to be published; and
  4. Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work, ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

2. Contributors Who Do Not Meet the Criteria

Individuals who contributed to the work but do not meet all four criteria should not be listed as authors. They may be named in the Acknowledgements section with their permission, with a description of their contribution. Examples include:

  • Acquisition of funding, general supervision of a research group, or general administrative support;
  • Technical assistance, writing assistance, language editing, or proofreading;
  • Data collection support that does not involve intellectual input into the study.

3. Corresponding Author

One author must be designated as the corresponding author. The corresponding author is responsible for communicating with the journal during submission, peer review, and publication, for ensuring that all co-authors have approved the submitted and final versions of the manuscript, and for responding to queries after publication. The corresponding author must provide a valid institutional email address.

4. Order of Authors

The order of authors should be decided jointly by the co-authors and should reflect their relative contributions to the work. The author list must be final at the time of submission.

5. Prohibited Authorship Practices

  • Ghost authorship: omitting a person who meets the authorship criteria.
  • Guest or gift authorship: listing a person who does not meet the criteria, for example because of seniority, position, or friendship.
  • Listing a person as an author without their knowledge or consent.
  • Fabricating author identities, affiliations, or ORCID iDs.

6. Changes to Authorship

Any request to add, remove, or rearrange authors after submission must be sent to the editorial office before the manuscript is accepted, using a written request that states the reason for the change. The request must be signed by all authors, including any author being added or removed. The editor may suspend the review process until the request is resolved. Changes to authorship after acceptance will be considered only in exceptional circumstances and may require correction notices.

7. Authorship Disputes

Authorship disputes are to be resolved by the authors and their institutions. The journal will not adjudicate disputes about who should or should not be an author, but may follow the COPE guidance and suspend processing of the manuscript until the dispute is settled. If a dispute arises after publication, the journal may issue a correction or other notice as appropriate.

8. Use of Generative AI Tools

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including large language models, cannot be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the work. Authors who use such tools for writing support or language editing must disclose this in the Methods or Acknowledgements section, naming the tool and describing how it was used. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the content.

9. Author Responsibilities

  • All authors must have read and approved the final manuscript and agreed to its submission to this journal.
  • The manuscript must be original, not under consideration elsewhere, and free from plagiarism and data fabrication or falsification.
  • All authors must disclose potential conflicts of interest in accordance with the journal’s Conflict of Interest Policy.
  • Where misconduct related to authorship is suspected, the journal reserves the right to investigate following COPE flowcharts and to notify the authors’ institutions.