Authorship Criteria

JPK : Jurnal Penelitian Kesehatan follows the authorship recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authorship gives credit for a scientific contribution and carries responsibility and accountability for the published work.

Who qualifies as an author

Every person listed as an author must meet all four of the following criteria:

Substantial contribution to the conception or design of the study, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data;
Drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
Final approval of the version to be published;
Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work, ensuring that questions about the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are properly investigated and resolved.

Acquiring funding, collecting data alone, general supervision of a research group, or holding a position as head of a department, clinical unit, hospital, or community health centre (Puskesmas) does not by itself justify authorship.

Contributors who do not meet the criteria

People who contributed to the study but do not meet all four criteria (for example, data collectors, enumerators, translators, statistical assistants, nurses or field staff who helped with recruitment, or those who provided technical or language editing) should be named in the Acknowledgements section. Authors should obtain permission from those they acknowledge.

Author contribution statement

Manuscripts with more than one author must include a short Author Contributions statement before the reference list, preferably using the CRediT taxonomy (Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Supervision, Funding acquisition, etc.). Example:

"APMA: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft. IYP: Investigation, Data curation. VS: Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript."

Corresponding author

The corresponding author communicates with the journal on behalf of all authors during submission, peer review, and publication. He or she must ensure that all listed authors meet the criteria above, that no qualifying person has been omitted, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the submitted and final versions.

Order of authors

The order of authors is a joint decision of the co-authors and should be agreed before submission. The journal does not decide authorship disputes about order.

Changes to authorship

Authorship should be final at the time of submission. Any request to add, remove, or reorder authors after submission must be sent by the corresponding author to the editor, stating the reason, and must be accompanied by written agreement from all authors, including the person being added or removed. Changes are not accepted after the article has been published, except through a formal correction (see Correction & Retraction Policy).

Ghost, guest, and gift authorship

Listing people who did not contribute (guest or gift authorship) or omitting people who did (ghost authorship) is considered research misconduct and will be handled according to the Research Misconduct Policy.

Artificial intelligence

AI tools, including large language models, cannot be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the work. See the Generative AI Policy.

Authorship disputes

Disputes that arise before or after publication will be handled following COPE guidance. Where the journal cannot resolve the matter, it will be referred to the authors' institution(s) for investigation.