The Research Directorate subscribes to the Vancouver Criteria for authorship. We expect all researchers operating within the HSE midwest to subscribe to these standards and the expectation is that institutional and individual researchers with which we collaborate will adhere to same or similar standards.
The Vancouver recommendations
The Vancouver recommendations include defining the role of authors, contributors and non-author contributors. They also cover responsibilities in the submission and peer-review process, conflicts of interest/competing interests, protection of research participants, etc.
The Vancouver recommendations define an author of a scientific publication as a person who has:
- Contributed substantially to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and
- Drafted the work or revised it critically for important intellectual content; and made a final approval of the version to be published; and
- Agreed 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.