Authorship Criteria
SCALE follows the authorship criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Each listed author must:
- Make a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data;
- Draft the work or revise it critically for important intellectual content;
- Approve the final version to be published; and
- Agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
Contributors who do not meet all four criteria should be named in the Acknowledgments. Changes to the author list after submission require a written request signed by all authors and approval by the editor. Generative AI tools cannot be listed as authors.
