Authorship & Contributorship

Authorship Criteria

JIRMC follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for the authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed:

  • Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
  • Drafting the work or reviewing it critically for important intellectual content; AND
  • Final approval of the version to be published; AND
  • 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.

Those who contributed to the work but do not qualify for authorship should be listed in the acknowledgments. Further, the order of names of the authors is based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and writing the manuscript.

  1. The corresponding author should act as a point of contact between the editor and the other authors and should keep co-authors informed and involve them in major decisions about the publication. We reserve the right to request confirmation that all authors meet the authorship conditions.
  2. Once the manuscript is submitted, neither order nor an author should be added/deleted, or replaced. The name of MS/M. Phil scholar must be written first followed by his/her supervisor and co-supervisor, if the manuscript is extracted from the thesis/dissertation of the scholar. The number of authors for manuscripts depends upon the type of manuscript, its scope, and the number of institutions involved (vide infra).
  3. To encourage transparency and to ensure genuine research work, the journal may ask the corresponding author to produce a certificate from the respective university/ (Controller of Examinations) to validate the authorship of the Theses and dissertations from which the paper was extracted.
  4. All authors of a research paper are required to sign the letter of submission to ensure that the listed authors have agreed to all of the contents, including the author list and author contribution statements, and have approved the manuscript submission to the journal.

Details on the role of authors are available at https://publicationethics.org/files/COPE_DD_A4_Authorship_SEPT19_SCREEN_AW.pdf