Authorship

Authorship Criteria

Regarding inquiries about authorship and to whom it should be conferred, the AIEJ observes the standards enumerated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Please refer to the following link for more information: Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors. We believe these authorship criteria are appropriate and applicable to our article types.

Corresponding Author

As described by the ICMJE, the corresponding author is the single individual responsible for communication with the AIEJ on any matter concerning the submitted article. The corresponding author ensures that our administrative requirements, such as providing details of authorship, ethics committee approval, and disclosures of relationships and related activities are properly completed and reported. Although these duties may be delegated to one or more coauthors, the corresponding author should be available throughout the submission and peer review process to respond to editorial queries promptly. In addition, the corresponding author should be available after publication to respond to critiques of the work and cooperate with any requests from the journal for data or additional information should questions about the paper arise after publication.

Changes to Authorship

If you desire to change your author list after the initial submission of your manuscript, ensure that the corresponding author engages with us through email explaining which authors should be removed/added to the author list, along with a brief explanation. Ensure that the corresponding author receives and sends us written approval from all other authors in the author list before confirming the change in authorship. If you request that any additional author(s) be added to the author list, ensure that the corresponding author receives and submits to us the prior-mentioned Declaration of Interest, Disclosure of Funding, and related forms concerning Informed Consent from human participants related to research in the submitted article.

Authorship Rights

Authors sign an exclusive license agreement with the AIEJ, where authors have copyright but license exclusive rights in their article to the AIEJ. Authors have the right to:

- Share their article in the same ways permitted to third parties under the creative commons user license, coupled with Personal Use rights and end-user CC BY 4.0 license.

- Retain patent, trademark, and other intellectual property rights (including research data).

- Proper attribution and credit for the published