Authorship and Contribution
Authorship Criteria
The Journal Evaluation in Education (JEE) upholds scientific integrity, collaborative justice, and transparency in the publication process. This policy ensures that all individuals who make significant contributions in the process of formulating ideas, writing, or developing academic papers are appropriately and proportionately recognized. This policy draws on the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), adapted for public administration.
Journal Evaluation in Education (JEE) recognizes authorship based on substantial intellectual contributions to the research and manuscript. All individuals listed as authors must meet the following criteria:
- Substantial Contribution: The individual has made a significant contribution to the conception or design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis, interpretation of results, development of methods, or other substantial aspects of the research.
- Manuscript Preparation: The individual has contributed to drafting the manuscript or critically revising it for important intellectual content.
- Approval of the Final Version: The individual has reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript before submission and publication.
- Accountability: The individual agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work and to ensure that questions related to the accuracy, integrity, or validity of the research are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Important: Individuals who contribute to the research but do not meet the authorship criteria should not be listed as authors. Their contributions may instead be acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section, where appropriate.
All authors are required to disclose their individual contributions through a Credit Authorship Contribution Statement. The statement must accurately describe each author's role in the research and manuscript preparation. Authors should select the applicable contribution roles from the Credit taxonomy listed below.
The CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system is used by JEE to provide a standardized description of the individual contributions made by each author to a scholarly publication. Authors are required to identify the roles that accurately reflect their contributions to the submitted manuscript.
- Conceptualization: Ideas, formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
- Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
- Software: Programming, software development, implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
- Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/ reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
- Formal Analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
- Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
- Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
- Data Curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
- Writing – Original Draft: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
- Writing – Review & Editing: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre-or postpublication stages.
- Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/ data presentation.
- Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
- Project Administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
- Funding Acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Authors must ensure that the contribution statement is complete, accurate, and agreed upon by all co-authors. Multiple roles may be assigned to one author, and a single role may be attributed to multiple authors. The statement should be included in the manuscript in accordance with the journal's submission guidelines.
Sample CRediT author statement
Zhang San: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software. Priya Singh: Data Curation, Writing - Original Draft. Wang Wu: Visualization, Investigation. Jan Jansen: Supervision. Ajay Kumar: Software, Validation. Sun Qi: Writing - Review & Editing.
Changes to the authorship, including the addition, removal, or rearrangement of authors, must be agreed upon by all authors and communicated to the editorial office. The journal reserves the right to request clarification or additional information regarding authorship and contribution statements when necessary.