Response to 'Applying the ICMJE authorship criteria to operational research in low-income countries: The need to engage programme managers and policy makers' by Zachariah et al. (2013) TMIH 18, pp. 1025-1028

摘要

In their recent article, Zachariah et ah (2013) express concern that the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship criteria '...do not extend beyond publication and are therefore less applicable for operational research'. Apparently, there is a strong desire among key players in operational research, including scientists, policy makers and health workers, for authorship criteria that allow them to be included as co-authors of academic research publications.