Authorship
Merit Research Journals considers authorship
as a means by which we communicate the results of authors’
scholarly input and output, establish priority for their
discoveries, and build their reputation among their peers with a
view to giving them a veritable ground to be evaluated for
employment, promotion, and tenure. In line with MRJ editorial
tenets, authorship of a work is claimed by those making
intellectual contributions to the completion of the research
described in the work.
Determining MRJ
Authorship
In line with MRJ editorial policy, authorship is limited to
those who have contributed substantially to the work, as such
authors are strongly encouraged to indicate their specific
contributions as a footnote. In other words, authorship is
someone who is involved in the writing of an article, including
those who have made considerable contributions to a study such
as formulating the problem or hypothesis, structuring the
experimental design, organizing and conducting the statistical
analysis, interpreting the results, or writing a major portion
of the paper.
Authors are those who also share responsibility and
accountability for the results as well as bear responsibility
for its contents. Thus, unless a footnote or the text of the
paper explicitly assigns responsibility for different parts of
the paper to different authors, the authors whose names appear
on a paper must share responsibility for all of it. We advise
that authors be listed in alphabetical order of their last
names, irrespective of their contribution to the work.
In order to be considered an author by MRJ, one must have
satisfied all three conditions:
>Contributed significantly to the conception and design of the
study, the acquisition of data, or the analysis and
interpretation
>Drafting or providing critical revision of the article, and
>Provided final approval of the version to be published
The acquisition of funding, or general supervision of the
research group alone does not constitute authorship.
It is our belief that all co-authors should be able to
understand and support the major points of the paper. An
author's reputation can be damaged when he allows his name to be
used on a paper he does not completely understand or was not
intimately involved with.
All authors, including co-authors, are usually expected to have
made reasonable attempts to check findings submitted for
publication.
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