Authorship and contributorship policy

Authorship and CRediT (Collaboration Roles)

Authorship

Authorship is the mention of the person or persons who contributed to a study. Thus, the author of a manuscript is the person who made a substantial scientific contribution to the preparation of the study (single author), or, if applicable, the group of co-authors who participated significantly in the article. Together, they are holders of the corresponding intellectual property rights.

The journal recommends the following criteria to determine authorship of the article:

  • Substantial contributions in planning and elaboration, design or data collection, analysis and interpretation of results.
  • Drafting of the article or argumentative and critical revision of the article.
  • Approval of the final version of the article to be published.

Authors must meet these criteria to be considered as such. Authorship of the article is not justified by obtaining funding, data collection, management of administrative aspects of the research or compliance with required formats.

When submitting a group-authored article to the journal, the list of members considered authors should be detailed and the corresponding author should indicate each author's contribution to the research participation, as well as their order. All authors must have participated sufficiently to accept public responsibility for the article to ensure that questions regarding the accuracy or completeness of any part of the paper are adequately investigated and resolved.

The author should submit the names of persons or institutions that collaborated in the research, either substantially, only as advisors, or the names of entities that have funded or subsidized the research. If the author considers that the publication of the article could generate a conflict of interest, he/she should inform the editor of the journal at the time of sending the article.
It is not the role of the Editorial Team to make decisions about authorship/contribution.

CRediT (Collaboration Roles)

CRediT-Taxonomy of Academic Collaboration Roles

The journal considers it necessary to give more visibility to the way in which each co-author of an article collaborates, with the purpose of making individual contributions explicit, reducing disputes among authors and facilitating academic participation. To achieve this objective, Cuadernos de Geografía de la Universitat de València  adheres to the use of CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to systematically indicate the type of contribution made by each author in the research process, which is presented below:

  1. Conceptualization: ideas, formulation or evolution of the general objectives and goals of the research.
  2. Data curation: management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data, and maintain the research data (including software code, when necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse.
  3. Formal analysis: application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
  4. Procurement of funds: acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.
  5. Research: carrying out an investigation and research process, specifically conducting experiments or data/evidence collection.
  6. Methodology: development or design of methodology; modeling.
  7. Project administration: responsibility for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of the research activity.
  8. Resources: provision of study materials, materials, computer resources or other analytical tools.
  9. Software: programming, software development; software design; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
  10. Supervision: supervisory and leadership responsibility in the planning and execution of research activities, including mentoring external to the core team.
  11. Validation: verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the overall replicability/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research products.
  12. Visualization: preparation, creation or presentation of published work, specifically visualization/presentation of data.
  13. Writing (original draft): preparation, creation or presentation of the published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft (including substantive translation).
  14. Writing (review and editing): repair, creation and/or presentation of the published work by members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision, including pre- or post-publication stages.

Thus, all authors of Cuadernos de Geografía de la Universitat de València articles should define, at the end of their manuscript, after the list of references, their contributions in relation to the predefined taxonomy of the 14 roles mentioned above, omitting those that do not correspond or are not appropriate, according to the type of article.

The structure would be as follows:
Names and surnames (main author): contribution 1, contribution 2, etc.
Names and surnames (co-author): contribution 1, contribution 2, etc.

Example:

Johanna Yancari Cueva (main author): research, formal analysis, writing (revision and editing).
Álvaro Mamani Cárdenas (co-author): research, methodology, writing (original draft).
Laleska Salgado Llanos (co-author): research, conceptualization, validation, supervision, writing (original draft).