Autoria, ordem de autoria e contribuição de autor: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

Introdução: Revisão de literatura acerca dos conceitos de autor, contribuição de autor, ordem de autoria e posição no bylinedo artigo. Objetivo: Identificar na literatura padrõesrelativos à atribuição de autoria, bem como osdiversos papeis dos autores. Metodologia: O procedimento metodológico envolveu revisão bibliográfica na base de dados PubMed, abrangendo um período de 1895 até 2021. Resultados: Discute diretrizes para atribuição de autoria, apresentando as funções do primeiro autor, autor principal e autor correspondente, conforme padrões identificados na literatura. Relata os critérios estabelecidos para regulamentar a correta e completa identificação dos autores nos artigos científicos, conforme os seguintes documentos: Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, proposta pelo International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE); CSE Recommendations for Group-Author Articles in Scientific Journals and Bibliometric Databases, publicadas pelo Council of Science Editors (CSE); e a taxonomia Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CrediT) – proposta pelo Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration (CASRAI) e National Information Standards Organization (NISO).Conclusão:Entre as considerações finais, sugere a ampla discussão de tais documentos entre a comunidade científicabrasileira e adoção dos mesmos pelas revistas nacionais.

Introduction: Literature review regarding author concepts, author contribution, authorship order and author position in the article byline. Objective: Identify patterns in the literature regarding the attribution of authorship, as well as the different roles of authors.Methodology: The methodological procedure involved a bibliographic review in the PubMed database, covering a period from 1895 to 2021. Results: It discusses guidelines for attribution of authorship, presenting the functions of the first author, main author and corresponding author, according to patterns identified in the literature. It reports the criteria established to regulate the correct and complete identification of authors in papers, according to the following documents: Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals, proposed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE ); CSE Recommendations for Group-Author Articles in Scientific Journals and Bibliometric Databases, published by the Council of Science Editors (CSE); and the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CrediT) –proposed by the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration (CASRAI) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). Conclusion: Among thefinal considerations, it suggests the wide discussion of such documents among the Brazilian scientific community and their adoption by national journals.