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Compliance Highlight: SIUE’s Authorship Policy 1M12

This week, ORP is highlighting SIUE’s newly published Authorship Policy 1M12. To go along with the policy, SIUE published an Authorship Checklist as a guideline for researchers to use to determine appropriate authorship attribution for scholarly works.

The Authorship Checklist is a resource to help manage pro-active conversations around authorship and provide a more tangible framework for what a “substantial intellectual contribution” is. Principal Investigators and those working on the project should use the checklist early in the life of the project and revisit it as necessary if roles change.

The checklist is split into three categories that mirror the authorship definition requirements – Intellectual Contributions, Drafting/Revision, and Approval of Final Version. To qualify as an author, a person must have been involved in one element in each section. Under the Intellectual Contributions section, there are 7 ways a potential author can “substantially contribute” to the work.

The checklist can be found on the Graduate School Forms page and the Research Misconduct page. The checklist should be signed by the PI and the researcher, dated, and kept with the project files for the required record retention period.

This completes the February series on our Authorship Policy. Next month’s series will highlight the tools and resources available for Responsible Conduct of Research training.