Corresponding Author’s Responsibilities
The corresponding author is the individual who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during the manuscript submission, peer review, and publication process.
The corresponding author is responsible for:
- Ensuring the manuscript is original, not currently under consideration elsewhere, and contains no plagiarized content or unauthorized copyrighted material.
- Ensuring that the submitted manuscript meets the author guidelines.
- Ensuring that all individuals who meet the ICMJE authorship criteria are included in the author list and that no "guest" or "ghost" authors are present.
- Confirming that all listed co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and have agreed to its submission to our journal.
- Providing all necessary ethical statements, including animal welfare committee approvals, informed consent (where applicable), and adherence to relevant reporting guidelines (e.g., ARRIVE).
- Collecting conflict of interest disclosures from all co-authors.
- Providing a detailed statement about funding resources.
- Taking responsibility for the Data Availability Statement and ensuring that raw data is available for inspection by the Editors or Reviewers upon request.
- Handling all communications on behalf of the co-authors regarding manuscript submission, peer-review, publication, and post-publication inquiries.
- Taking the main responsibility for communication with the journal during submission, the review process, and the publication process.
- Ensuring that the manuscript adheres to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
- Any request to withdraw a manuscript must be formally submitted and confirmed by the corresponding author.
By acting as the corresponding author, the individual accepts responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole and ensures that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
