AUTHORSHIP

Authorship

Journal of Ophthalmology (Ukraine) is published in accordance with  COPE CORE PRACTICES  by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals  formulated be the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

The instruction for authors has been compiled in accordance with COPE CORE PRACTICES  by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals  formulated be the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Journal of Ophthalmology (Ukraine) encourages authors to refer to and follow COPE CORE PRACTICES, Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and recommendation of the World Medical Association

We also encourage authors to study Submission Guidelines, Editorial Policies and Publication Ethics Policies.

 

Each person listed as an author is expected to have participated in the study to a significant extent. To qualify as a contributing author, one must meet all of the following 4 criteria (The criteria of authorship are defined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)):

1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
2. Drafting the work or reviewing it critically for important intellectual content; AND
3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work done, an author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work. In addition, authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their co-authors.

All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet the four criteria should be identified as authors.

These authorship criteria are intended to reserve the status of authorship for those who deserve credit and can take responsibility for the work. The criteria are not intended for use as a means to disqualify colleagues from authorship who otherwise meet authorship criteria by denying them the opportunity to meet criterion #s 2 or 3. Therefore, all individuals who meet the first criterion should have the opportunity to participate in the review, drafting, and final approval of the manuscript.

The individuals who conduct the work are responsible for identifying who meets these criteria and ideally should do so when planning the work, making modifications as appropriate as the work progresses.

It is the collective responsibility of the authors, not the journal to which the work is submitted, to determine that all people named as authors meet all four criteria; it is not the role of journal editors to determine who qualifies or does not qualify for authorship or to arbitrate authorship conflicts.

If agreement cannot be reached about who qualifies for authorship, the institution(s) where the work was performed, not the journal editor, should be asked to investigate. The criteria used to determine the order in which authors are listed on the byline may vary, and are to be decided collectively by the author group and not by editors.

When a large multi-author group has conducted the work, the group ideally should decide who will be an author before the work is started and confirm who is an author before submitting the manuscript for publication. All members of the group named as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, including approval of the final manuscript, and they should be able to take public responsibility for the work and should have full confidence in the accuracy and integrity of the work of other group authors. They will also be expected as individuals to complete disclosure forms.

 

Changes to authorship

If authors request removal or addition of an author after manuscript submission, an explanation and signed statement of agreement for the requested change from all listed authors and from the author to be removed or added are sent to the editorial board of the journal (download template). New authors must also confirm that they fully comply with the journal's authorship requirements.  Changes to the authorship will not be allowed once the manuscript has been accepted for publication.

 

Corresponding author

The corresponding author is the one individual who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during the manuscript submission, peer-review, and publication process.

The corresponding author typically ensures that all the journal's administrative requirements, such as providing details of authorship, ethics committee approval, clinical trial registration documentation, and disclosures of relationships and activities, are properly completed and reported, although these duties may be delegated to one or more co-authors.

The corresponding author should be available throughout the submission and peer-review process to respond to editorial queries in a timely way, and should be available after publication to respond to critiques of the work and cooperate with any requests from the journal for data or additional information should questions about the paper arise after publication.

Although the corresponding author has primary responsibility for correspondence with the journal, the editors send copies of all correspondence to all listed authors.

 

Non-Author Contributors

Contributors who meet fewer than all 4 of the above criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors, but they should be acknowledged. Examples of activities that alone (without other contributions) do not qualify a contributor for authorship are acquisition of funding; general supervision of a research group or general administrative support; and writing assistance, technical editing, language editing, and proofreading.

Those whose contributions do not justify authorship may be acknowledged individually or together as a group and their contributions should be specified (e.g., “served as scientific advisors,”“critically reviewed the study proposal,”“collected data,”“provided and cared for study patients,”“participated in writing or technical editing of the manuscript”).

Use of AI for writing assistance should be reported in the acknowledgment section.

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Assisted Technology

Authors must disclose the use of AI and AI-enabled technologies in their manuscripts, with a statement to that effect to be published in the paper. It is not allowed to write a scientific paper with the help of AI, as well as to create or modify images in submitted manuscripts with the help of AI. AI technologies can be used only to improve the language of the manuscript under the control of the authors.

When submitting an article, authors should indicate whether they have used artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in writing the paper in the acknowledgments section. Authors are responsible for any submitted material that included the use of AI-assisted technologies. Authors should carefully review and edit the result because AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete, or biased.

Authors should not list AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author, nor cite AI as an author. Authors should be able to assert that there is no plagiarism in their paper, including in text and images produced by the AI. Authors must ensure there is appropriate attribution of all quoted material, including full citations.

 

Authorship Statement

The corresponding author should indicate all authors of the manuscript and the contribution of each author in the form "Authorship Statement". This form must be uploaded when submitting the initial manuscript. Persons who participated in the writing of the article but do not meet the criteria of authorship should be indicated in the "Acknowledgements" section. A list of contributions will be published with the manuscript if it is accepted.

DOWNLOAD  The Authorship Responsibility form

 

By submitting the " Authorship Statement" form, the corresponding author confirms that:

- each author has read the statement of the author's responsibility and author contribution;

- all authors included in the list of authors meet the criteria of authorship;

- each author has contributed substantially to the writing of the paper, including conception, design, analysis, writing, and revision, and each author is responsible for its content;

- all authors have approved the final version of the manuscript;

- the submitted or similar material has not been and will not be submitted for publication or has already been published in any other publications in the same language simultaneously with the submission of the manuscript to the Journal of Ophthalomology (Ukraine)  until it is published in the Journal of Ophthalomology (Ukraine) .

 

Contribution of each author to the article

According to the form "Authorship Statement", the corresponding author provides summary information about the authors and their contribution to the work in the Disclosures section:

Example 1: Author A.A.: Reviewing and editing. Author B.B.: Conceptualisation; writing - design; formal analysis; writing - review and revision. Author V.V.: software; review and revision. Author G.G.: methodology; writing - reviewing and revising. Author D.D.: conceptualisation; writing - drafting; writing - reviewing and revising. All authors analysed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.

For a single author, use the following wording:

Example 2: The author confirms sole responsibility for the following: conception and design of the study, collection of data, analysis and interpretation of the results, and preparation of the manuscript. 

Contribution of the authors to the published work (options with explanation are possible):

Conceptualisation	Ideas; the formulation or development of overarching research goals and objectives.
Data curation	management activities for annotation (creation of metadata), data cleaning, and preservation of research data (including software code, if necessary for the interpretation of the data itself) for primary use and further reuse.
Formal analysis	the use of statistical, mathematical, computational or other formal methods to analyse or synthesise research data.
Obtaining funding	Acquisition of financial support for the project that led to this publication.
Research	Conducting a process of research and study, such as conducting experiments or gathering data/facts
Methodology	Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration	Responsible for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of research activities.
Resources	Providing research materials, reagents, supplies, patients, laboratory specimens, animals, instruments, computing resources or other means of analysis.
Software	Programming, software development; design of computer programs; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; Testing of existing code components.
Supervision	Oversight and responsibility for the planning and execution of research activities, including mentoring, external to the core team.
Validation	Verification, both as part of the activity and separately, of the overall reproducibility/reproducibility of the results/experiments and other research results.
Visualisation	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of published work, including data visualisation/presentation.
Writing - the initial draft	Preparing, creating and/or presenting a published work, including writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing - reviewing and editing	The preparation, creation and/or submission of a published work by individuals from the original research team, including critical review, commentary or revision - including pre- or post-publication stages.