Authorship Policy

(DRAFT AUTHORSHIP CRITERIA STATEMENT)

For publications resulting from the work of Taskforce 2.3, the followed adapted ICMJE authorship criteria apply:

1. Substantial and sustained contribution to the conception and planning of the work.
2. Substantial contribution to organisation and management of taskforce activity, including the code repository.
3. Substantial contribution to implementation of code testing.
4. Substantial contribution to standardisation of code.
5. Substantial contribution to communication, and dissemination of taskforce activity.
6. Substantial and sustained participation in taskforce discussions (in-person or online).
7. Contribution to manuscript, review of manuscript draft and approval of final version.

To qualify for authorchip, OSIPI members should contribute to:

• one or more of items 1 - 5
• item 6
• item 7

Authors will be ordered according to these principles: first author: co-lead; last author: lead; “middle authors”: filled according to extent of contribution, with active TF members listed from the front and OSIPI seniors listed from the end.

Contributing existing code is not sufficient for authorship but will be recognised (wherever possible) via article acknowledgements, in source code and in documentation. However, contributors with knowledge of dynamic contrast MR imaging are welcome to join the task force and co-author its publications, subject to the above criteria.