ICMJE authorship criteria are not met in a substantial proportion of manuscripts submitted to Biochemia Medica.

Autor: Šupak-Smolčić V; Biochemia Medica , Zagreb, Croatia ; Clinical Department for Laboratory Diagnostics, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia ; Department of Medical Informatics, Rijeka University School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia., Mlinarić A; Clinical Department for Laboratory Diagnostics, Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia., Antončić D; Clinical Department for Laboratory Diagnostics, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia., Horvat M; Clinical Department for Laboratory Diagnostics, Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia., Omazić J; Department of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital Centre Osijek, Osijek, Croatia., Šimundić AM; Biochemia Medica , Zagreb, Croatia ; University Department of Chemistry, University Hospital Centre Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Biochemia medica [Biochem Med (Zagreb)] 2015 Oct 15; Vol. 25 (3), pp. 324-34. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Oct 15 (Print Publication: 2015).
DOI: 10.11613/BM.2015.033
Abstrakt: Introduction: Our aim was to investigate if: (a) authors of Biochemia Medica meet authorship criteria given by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), (b) authorship violations are more frequent in submissions containing some type of scientific misconduct.
Materials and Methods: Self-reported authorship contributions regarding the three ICMJE criteria were analysed for all submissions to Biochemia Medica (February 2013-April 2015) which were forwarded to peer-review. To test the differences in frequencies we used Chi-squared test. P<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results: 186 manuscripts were authored by 804 authors. All ICMJE criteria were met by 487/804 (61%) authors. The first and the last author met all the criteria more frequently than those authors in between (P<0.001). The degree to which ICMJE criteria was met for the first author did not differ between manuscripts authored by only one author and those authored by >1 author (P=0.859). In 9% of the manuscripts ICMJE criteria were not met by a single author. Authors of the 171/186 manuscripts declared that all persons qualify for authorship but only 49% of them satisfied all ICMJE criteria. Authors have failed to acknowledge contributors in 88/186 (47%) manuscripts; instead these contributors have been listed as authors without fulfilling ICMJE criteria. Authorship violation was not more common in 42 manuscripts with some type of scientific misconduct (P=0.135).
Conclusion: Large proportion of authors of the manuscripts submitted to Biochemia Medica do not fulfil ICMJE criteria. Violation of authorship criteria is not more common for manuscripts with some type of scientific misconduct.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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