Authorship

Authorship Criteria

Authorship not only grants recognition but also carries significant academic, social, and financial consequences, along with accountability for the published work. Editors have an ethical duty to ensure that those who substantially contribute to a paper receive proper credit, while also making sure authors acknowledge their responsibility for their published work.

Pakistan Journal of Pathology follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which recommends that authorship be based on the following four criteria:

• Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
• Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
• Final approval of the version to be published; AND
• Agreement 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.

Every individual listed as an author must fulfill all four authorship criteria, and anyone who meets these criteria should be included as an author. Contributors who do not satisfy all four criteria but have made significant contributions to the research should be recognized in the article's acknowledgments section.

We accept publications/ articles from both National and International Authors.

It is important to note that:

• Funding agencies, data collectors and biostatisticians, do not justify authorship.
• Once authorship certificate is submitted, no further change will be allowed in the sequence and/or addition of new authors.

Authors’ Contributions

An author contributorship statement defining each author’s contribution to the article should be provided. This must be done in two forms: one by filling out the authors’ certificate (can be downloaded from the Pak J Pathol website. 

For review articles, where individual statements are less applicable, a statement should be included that clarifies who was responsible for the ideation, who performed the literature search and/or data analysis, and who drafted and revised the work.

Deceased Authors

Deceased authors would be included with a death dagger (†) next to the author's name and a footnote stating that the author is deceased along with the date of death.