The research team also examined the relationship between author order and contribution statements on over 12,000 published articles and found that often they are not aligned.

Contribution statements and author order on research studies still leave readers guessing. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 11 / 171115144114.htm.

In a previous editorial discussing plagiarism 2, we claimed that an author contribution statement serves at least two useful purposes: it clearly defines each author's role in the research and ...

We are clarifying the duties of lead authors and making author-contribution statements mandatory. The Nature journals encourage authors to treat their data and their collaborators with the respect ...

Ross credited Nature, for example, with requiring article author contribution statements that specify the role of each author, and he suggested that this practice could be adopted not only by journals ...

Figure 2: Comparing five universities for the presence of a specific Trust Marker (author contribution statements) in research publications (2013-2022). Ethiopia’s Jimma University is a world ...