Authorship and Contributorship
- Purpose and Ethical Foundation
The Journal of Public Administration and Policy (JAKP) upholds scientific integrity, collaborative justice, and transparency in the publication process. This policy ensures that all individuals who make significant contributions in the process of formulating ideas, writing, or developing academic papers are appropriately and proportionately recognized. This policy refers to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), with adaptations to the realm of public administration - Definitions and Terminology
- Authors are individuals who actively contribute to the intellectual process of the manuscript, including problem formulation, analysis, writing, and validation of arguments.
- Contributors are individuals or entities that play a role in supporting aspects (operational, technical, logistical), but do not fulfill all author criteria.
- Gift Authorship: The inclusion of names that do not actually contribute.
- Ghost Authorship: Not including the name of the party that should be recognized.
- Denial of Authorship: Removal of the name of an individual who meets the
- Author Criteria
An individual can be recognized as an author if they meet the following four elements:- Actively involved in the formulation of the research question, methodological design, or information collection;
- Contributes substantively to the writing or editing of the manuscript;
- Approves the final version of the manuscript submitted to the journal;
- Willing to take collective responsibility for the overall content of the article.
- Recognition of Non-Author Contributions
Contributors who do not meet the author criteria should be acknowledged in the Acknowledgements section, with mention of the role or support provided. Written permission from that party must be obtained in advance. - Author Order and Responsibility
The order of authors is determined by consensus of all authors, and should reflect actual contributions. - The correspondence author is responsible for coordinating manuscript submissions, providing collective approval, and liaising between the writing team and the editor.
- Changes to the author list (additions, deletions, changes in order) can only be made with the written consent of all authors involved.
- Statement of Contribution
Each manuscript must include a Contribution Statement based on the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) framework, which describes the specific role of each author, such as: conceptualization, investigation, initial writing, critical review, data curation, and funding. - Scholarly Context Adjustment
In public policy studies, contributions can include:- Participation in community action research;
- Involvement in evidence-based policy formulation;
- Moderation of cross-stakeholder dialogue;
- Reflective contributions to participatory policy analysis.
- Dispute Resolution and Writing Ethics
- Each manuscript must be accompanied by a contribution form signed by all authors.
- JAKP encourages open discussion from the outset to prevent conflicts around author order and status.
- In the event of a pre-publication dispute, the editorial process will be paused until it is resolved internally by the author team.
- For post-publication disputes, JAKP will follow up according to COPE guidelines and, if necessary, issue a statement of correction, concern, or retraction of the article.
- General Principles
JAKP prohibits any form of attribution manipulation, including the inclusion of automated tools (such as AI) as authors. Support from digital tools can be explicitly mentioned in the methods or footnotes.
