Authorship Policy

Authorship

All individuals designated as writers must adhere to our standards for authorship. All writers are expected to publicly accept responsibility for the article's content before submitting it to one of the publications the Asian Network for Scientific Information publishes. All writers' contributions must be described.

To confirm their knowledge of and consent to the submission of the manuscript, its content, and its authorship, all authors will be contacted via email at the time of submission.

Authorship Criteria

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals serve as the foundation for authorship criteria.

Four requirements are listed by the ICMJE for authorship credit. For authors to be listed, they must fulfil all four requirements.

Substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, and
Drafting the article or revising it critically for valuable 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.

Author identification

As part of our efforts to improve transparency and unambiguous attribution of scholarly contributions, corresponding authors of published papers must provide their Digital Identifier (ORCID or Google Scholar).

Author Contributions

The contributions of all authors must be described. The corresponding author is responsible for providing the contributions of all authors at the time of submission. We expect that all authors will have reviewed, discussed, and agreed to their contributions ahead of this time. Contributions will be published with the final article, and they should accurately reflect contributions to the work.

Contributor Role	Role Definition
Conceptualization	Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
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.
Formal Analysis	Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Funding Acquisition	Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation	Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Methodology	Development or design of methodology; creation of models
Project Administration	Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Resources	Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software	Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision	Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Validation	Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
Writing - Original Draft Preparation	Creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing Draft Preparation 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 post-publication stages.

Acknowledgments

Contributors who do not meet the criteria for the above authorship categories should only be mentioned in the Acknowledgments. The author is expected to get consent from all those persons/organizations/funding agencies to be acknowledged within the manuscript.