NHMRC guidelines on authorship

There has been some discussion about who should be named as an author on any publications resulting from the Chemistry Discipline Network. The NHMRC states:
To be named as an author, a researcher must have made a substantial scholarly contribution to the work and be able to take responsibility for at least that part of the work they contributed.Attribution of authorship depends to some extent on the discipline, but in all cases, authorship must be based on substantial contributions in a combination of:

• conception and design of the project

• analysis and interpretation of research data

• drafting significant parts of the work or critically revising it so as to contribute to the interpretation.

Authorship should not be offered to those who do not meet the requirements set out above. For example, none of the following contributions, in and of themselves, justifies including a person as an author:

• being head of department, holding other positions of authority, or personal friendship with the authors
• providing a technical contribution but no other intellectual input to the project or publication
• providing routine assistance in some aspects of the project, the acquisition of funding or general supervision of the research team
• providing data that has already been published or materials obtained from third parties, but with no other intellectual input.

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