Authorship and Contributorship Policy
Scholarly Contribution • Transparency • Accountability
Authorship and Contributorship Policy
Curatio : Journal of Advanced and Specialized Nursing, and Care Planning requires authorship to accurately reflect substantial scholarly contributions to research in advanced nursing, specialized nursing care, clinical nursing, nursing interventions, care planning, patient safety, chronic and critical care, community nursing, nursing management, evidence-based nursing, and related fields.
SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTION CRediT TAXONOMY FULL ACCOUNTABILITY
Authorship represents both academic credit and responsibility. A person should be listed as an author only when they have made a meaningful intellectual contribution to the research and accept responsibility for the integrity, accuracy, transparency, ethical conduct, patient protection, and scholarly quality of the published work.
1. Criteria for Authorship
All listed authors must demonstrate substantial scholarly involvement in the study. Authorship should normally include all of the following:
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Substantial Research Contribution Significant contribution to the nursing research problem, conceptual or clinical framework, study design, patient or participant recruitment, nursing assessment, care-plan development, intervention design, clinical data collection, instrument development, methodology, statistical analysis, qualitative analysis, or interpretation of nursing outcomes. |
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Intellectual Contribution to the Manuscript Active participation in drafting the manuscript or critically revising its nursing theory, clinical rationale, methodology, care-plan analysis, intervention outcomes, discussion, patient-safety implications, or scholarly contribution. |
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Final Approval Review and approval of the final manuscript, including the accuracy of author names, affiliations, patient or participant descriptions, nursing assessments, intervention results, care-planning information, declarations, ethical information, and references. |
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Accountability Agreement to take responsibility for the author's contribution and to cooperate in resolving questions concerning nursing data, clinical assessments, interventions, care plans, patient safety, research ethics, confidentiality, research integrity, authorship, or other aspects of the published work. |
Activities That Do Not Alone Qualify for Authorship
The following activities, when performed alone, are generally insufficient to justify authorship:
| • Providing research funding only | • Providing access to patients, wards, hospitals, clinics, nursing units, or clinical records only |
| • General academic, clinical, nursing, or administrative supervision | • Holding a head-nurse, hospital, managerial, institutional, or professional position |
| • Routine patient scheduling, data entry, nursing assistance, or clerical work | • Language editing, proofreading, translation, or formatting only |
| • Providing nursing equipment, clinical facilities, instruments, or logistical support only | • General encouragement, mentoring, or professional support without scholarly contribution |
Individuals providing these forms of assistance may be recognized in the Acknowledgments section, subject to their permission where appropriate.
2. Author Contribution Statement – CRediT
Every accepted manuscript must include an Author Contribution Statement. Authors are encouraged to use the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to identify each author's contribution transparently.
| Conceptualization Development of nursing research ideas, clinical questions, hypotheses, care-planning concepts, patient-safety frameworks, or theoretical models. |
Methodology Development or design of quantitative, qualitative, mixed, clinical, intervention, observational, survey, case-study, or evidence-based nursing research methods. |
| Formal Analysis Statistical, clinical, nursing-outcome, psychometric, qualitative, thematic, care-planning, or other analytical work. |
Investigation Conducting nursing assessments, interviews, surveys, clinical observations, interventions, patient monitoring, community nursing activities, or empirical data collection. |
| Data Curation Collecting, cleaning, coding, anonymizing, organizing, documenting, or maintaining patient, nursing, clinical, intervention, or care-planning datasets. |
Software Statistical coding, nursing-data processing, clinical-data applications, care-planning tools, digital nursing systems, or development of analytical software. |
| Validation Verification of analytical results, nursing instruments, clinical assessments, intervention procedures, care-plan outcomes, patient-safety measures, or research outputs. |
Visualization Preparation of research tables, figures, nursing-process diagrams, care pathways, clinical models, intervention frameworks, or data visualizations. |
| Writing – Original Draft Preparation of the initial scholarly manuscript. |
Writing – Review & Editing Critical intellectual review and substantive manuscript revision. |
| Resources Provision of essential nursing instruments, clinical datasets, patient-care resources, assessment tools, facilities, or other resources combined with scholarly contribution. |
Supervision Intellectual oversight and scholarly guidance of the research process. |
| Project Administration Coordination and management of research activities. |
Funding Acquisition Acquisition of financial support for the research project. |
Note: Assignment of a CRediT role does not automatically qualify an individual for authorship. The individual must also satisfy the journal's authorship requirements and accept accountability.
3. Example of Author Contribution Statement
Example – Clinical Nursing / Intervention Research
Author Contributions: A.B.: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Writing – Original Draft. C.D.: Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Validation, Visualization. E.F.: Supervision, Resources, Writing – Review & Editing. All authors approved the final manuscript and agreed to be accountable for their contributions.
Example – Nursing Care Planning / Clinical Case Study
Author Contributions: A.B.: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – Original Draft. C.D.: Nursing Assessment, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Validation. E.F.: Supervision, Clinical Interpretation, Writing – Review & Editing. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
4. Author Order
Author order must be determined and agreed upon collectively by the author group before manuscript submission. The journal does not assign or determine author order.
The authorship list and order must be consistent across the submitted manuscript, OJS metadata, Author Contribution Statement, declarations, ethical documentation, and final published article.
5. Corresponding Author
One author must be identified as the corresponding author and serve as the primary contact between the journal and all co-authors.
| ✓ Ensures all authors approve manuscript submission | ✓ Verifies author names, affiliations, email, and ORCID information |
| ✓ Coordinates responses to reviewers | ✓ Ensures all authors approve substantive revisions |
| ✓ Verifies funding, ethics approval, informed consent, and Conflict of Interest Statements | ✓ Coordinates Data Availability and clinical-data statements where applicable |
| ✓ Coordinates final proof approval | ✓ Responds to post-publication clinical or research-integrity inquiries when necessary |
6. Unacceptable Authorship Practices
| ✕ Guest / Honorary Authorship Adding senior academics, nurse managers, clinicians, hospital leaders, institutional officials, or respected individuals who did not make sufficient scholarly contributions. |
✕ Ghost Authorship Excluding individuals who made substantial contributions to nursing assessment, intervention design, care planning, clinical analysis, or manuscript preparation that qualify for authorship. |
| ✕ Gift / Reciprocal Authorship Exchanging or granting authorship without genuine scholarly contribution. |
✕ Purchased Authorship Buying, selling, or transferring authorship positions. |
| ✕ Coercive Authorship Requiring inclusion because of supervisory, clinical, nursing, institutional, hospital, managerial, or professional authority. |
✕ Unauthorized Authorship Listing a person without their knowledge and approval. |
7. Changes to Authorship
Addition, removal, or rearrangement of authors after submission must be exceptional and supported by a clear explanation and written consent from all affected authors.
| BEFORE ACCEPTANCE May be considered with full written agreement |
AFTER ACCEPTANCE Exceptional and subject to editorial approval |
AFTER PUBLICATION May require a formal Correction Notice |
8. Authorship Disputes
The Editorial Team may request explanations and documentation when an authorship dispute arises. However, the journal does not normally adjudicate disputes concerning who should or should not qualify as an author. Unresolved disputes may be referred to the authors' institution, research-integrity office, ethics committee, hospital authority, or another appropriate body. Editorial processing may be suspended until the dispute is resolved.
9. Artificial Intelligence and Authorship
Artificial intelligence tools, large language models, generative AI systems, and clinical decision-support AI must not be listed as authors or co-authors. AI cannot accept accountability, approve a manuscript, provide informed consent, declare conflicts of interest, or take responsibility for research integrity. Relevant AI-assisted activities, including AI-supported writing, coding, nursing-data processing, care-plan support, clinical analysis, or visualization, must instead be disclosed according to the journal's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage Policy.
Authorship Checklist Before Submission
| ✓ Every listed author has made a genuine scholarly contribution | ✓ No eligible contributor has been omitted |
| ✓ Author order has been approved by all authors | ✓ All authors approved the submitted manuscript |
| ✓ Author Contribution Statement is complete | ✓ Corresponding author has been identified |
| ✓ OJS metadata matches the manuscript | ✓ Ethics approval, informed consent, confidentiality, patient safety, and clinical-data statements are accurate where applicable |
| ✓ AI-assisted activities have been disclosed where required | ✓ All authors accept responsibility for the published work |
Authorship Principle
In Curatio : Journal of Advanced and Specialized Nursing, and Care Planning, authorship is based on substantive intellectual contribution and accountability. Academic rank, clinical or nursing authority, hospital or institutional position, access to patients, wards, nursing records, clinical facilities, instruments, funding alone, routine nursing assistance, supervisory status, or professional seniority does not by itself justify authorship.
