Authorship: from credit to accountability. Reflections from the Editors’ Network

The Editors’ Network of the European Society of Cardiology provides a dynamic forum for editorial discussions and endorses the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) to improve the scientific quality of biomedical journals. Authorship confers credit and important academic rewards. Recently, however, the ICMJE emphasized that authorship also requires responsibility and accountability. These issues are now covered by the new (fourth) criterion for authorship. Authors should agree to be accountable and ensure that questions regarding the accuracy and integrity of the entire work will be appropriately addressed. This review discusses the implications of this paradigm shift on authorship requirements with the aim of increasing awareness on good scientific and editorial practices.

Ignacio Ferreira-González | Claes Held | Michael Böhm | Eckart Fleck | Fernando Alfonso | Dimitris Tousoulis | François Mach | Zlatko Fras | Luc Pierard | Carlos Eduardo Rochitte | Chu-Pak Lau | Michael Aschermann | Anton Doubell | Nuray Enç | Plamen Gatzov | Mahmoud Hassanein | Olaf Rødevand | Mikael Sander | Evgeny Shlyakhto | Dilek Ural | J. J. Piek | Kjell Nikus | Dario Echeverri | C. Held | C. Lau | E. Fleck | C. Rochitte | M. Böhm | D. Tousoulis | F. Mach | M. Aschermann | K. Huber | K. Nikus | G. Heusch | Z. Fras | F. Alfonso | L. D. Cas | Ç. Erol | L. Pierard | E. Shlyakhto | A. Varga | G. Marinskis | A. Flammer | R. Hatala | S. Obradovic | I. Ferreira-González | G. di Pasquale | Carmen Ginghina | Çetin Erol | Anetta Undas | Giuseppe Di Pasquale | Livio Dei Cas | Andreas J. Flammer | Kurt Huber | D. Ural | A. Undas | C. Ginghinǎ | Faouzi Addad | Robert Hatala | J. Monsuez | Yangsoo Jang | Gerd Heusch | P. Gatzov | O. Ro̸devand | F. Addad | Albert Varga | Lino Gonçalves | Mamanti Rogava | Parounak Zelveian | Jean-Jacques Monsuez | Alfonso Buendia Hernandez | Tzung-Dau Wang | Ariel Cohen | Sebija Izetbegovic | Ulrike Fortmüller | Lino Goncalves | Mario Ivanusa | Germanas Marinskis | Slobodan Obradović | María Pilar Aguilar Passano | Jan J. Piek | Alban Dibra | Faiq Guliyev | Alexander Mrochek | Ismael Guzman Melgar | Kanat Kabdrakhmanov | Laila Haddour | Valentyn Shumakov | European Society of Cardiology Task Force Editors’ Network | Y. Jang | P. Zelveian | A. Doubell | M. Ivanuša | N. Enç | J. Piek | Ariel Cohen | S. Izetbegovíc | D. Echeverri | U. Fortmüller | M. Hassanein | A. B. Hernández | Tzung-Dau Wang | M. Sander | A. Dibra | F. Guliyev | A. Mrochek | M. Rogava | K. Kabdrakhmanov | L. Haddour | V. Shumakov | Michael Boehm | María Pilar Aguilar Passano | Ismael Guzman Melgar | L. Cas | Mikael Sander | Anton Doubell | Darío Echeverri | François Mach | Ariel Cohen | Nuray Enç | Alban Dibra | Dilek Ural | Ulrike Fortmüller | María Pilar Aguilar Passano | Ismael Guzman Melgar | G. Di Pasquale | Kanat Kabdrakhmanov | European Society of Cardiology Task Force Editors’ Network

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