Author contribution statement

Starting from Volume 8 Issue 1 (2026), we request the author contribution statement. The authors are required to indicate each co-author contribution for the following terms:

 

- Conceptualization (Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims)

- Methodology (Development or design of methodology; creation of models)

- Software (Programming, software development; designing computer programs)

- Validation (Verification of the overall replication/ reproducibility of results/experiments)

- Formal analysis (Application of statistical or other formal techniques to analyze study data)

- Investigation (Performing the experiments/data collection)

- Resources (Provision of study materials, instrumentation, or other analysis tools)

- Data Curation (Producing metadata, and maintain data for initial use and later reuse)

- Writing - Original Draft (Preparation of the initial draft)

- Writing - Review & Editing (Improving the original draft)

- Visualization (Preparation of the visualization/ data presentation)

- Supervision (Oversight for the research activity planning and execution)

- Project administration (Coordination for the research activity planning and execution)

- Funding acquisition (Acquisition of the financial support for the project)

 

An example of Author contribution statement

Author1: Conceptualization; Methodology; Investigation; Supervision; Project administration; Writing-Original Draft; Visualization. Author2: Software; Validation; Formal analysis. Author3: Resources; Data Curation; Writing-Review & Editing.