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That was a brief list of duties you are expected to fulfill as the corresponding author before a manuscript is submitted to a journal. In the next post , I will talk about what a corresponding author needs to do after submitting a paper to the journal.
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Subscribe to Conducting Research. Confirm that you would also like to sign up for free personalized email coaching for this stage. Authorship in Research. What corresponding authors are expected to do after journal submission 6 min read. The corresponding author is the one individual who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during the manuscript submission, peer review, and publication process.
The corresponding author should be available throughout the submission and peer review process to respond to editorial queries in a timely way, and should be available after publication to respond to critiques of the work and cooperate with any requests from the journal for data or additional information should questions about the paper arise after publication. Although the corresponding author has primary responsibility for correspondence with the journal, the ICMJE recommends that editors send copies of all correspondence to all listed authors.
When a large multi-author group has conducted the work, the group ideally should decide who will be an author before the work is started and confirm who is an author before submitting the manuscript for publication.
All members of the group named as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, including approval of the final manuscript, and they should be able to take public responsibility for the work and should have full confidence in the accuracy and integrity of the work of other group authors.
They will also be expected as individuals to complete disclosure forms. Some large multi-author groups designate authorship by a group name, with or without the names of individuals.
When submitting a manuscript authored by a group, the corresponding author should specify the group name if one exists, and clearly identify the group members who can take credit and responsibility for the work as authors. The byline of the article identifies who is directly responsible for the manuscript, and MEDLINE lists as authors whichever names appear on the byline. Some of these journals do not even indicate a corresponding author to the reader.
Also, there already is a way to indicate that an author is available for questions on the paper interpretation 2 : stating the e-mail address. On the other hand, other journals do indicate corresponding authorship, which makes little sense for interpretation 1.
Also, the value put into this role by some funding agencies for its implied meaning makes more sense for interpretation 2 not that I completely agree with it. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. While there are other questions on this site touching this issue, they focus on consequences of the interpretation, such as how to assign corresponding authorship , the implications of corresponding authorship , or whom to address with a request.
What is the explicit meaning of the word corresponding author? Please answer only if you have more to offer than personal experience and individual journal guidelines. In particular, please address the possibility of a varying meaning. IEEE distinguishes between contact author and corresponding author :. Contact Author: This is the person who is contacted in regards to the submission during the peer-review and production processes. Corresponding Author: This is the person who is listed as the author to be contacted in the printed publication.
PLoS states two types of corresponding authors :. Please note that the corresponding author for the online submission process can be different from the corresponding author of your published manuscript.
Copernicus uses the terms contact author and corresponding author :. From submission to publication, the authors of a manuscript are formally represented by the registered contact author s. After publication, the authors of a manuscript are formally represented by the corresponding author s specified in the published paper. Personally, I've seen this differentiation several times. The corresponding author might also change during the process. Some publishers don't.
It's absolutely inhomogeneous and seems also to vary by journal not only by publisher. And it varies over time. The latter includes all journals indexed in Web of Science. I don't think you're going to find anyone who has the final definition for the term. It is not defined by the law or some government regulation, but instead is a term that is used by speakers in the community who may have different interpretations and nuances on their minds when they use it.
As a consequence, I suspect that all you can find is how people interpret the term, but you won't get universal consensus. In the current context, it also seems to me that not very much is lost if there is no universal consensus.
To me, and I suspect to most in the community, the "corresponding author" handles both roles: communication throughout the publishing process, and about possible questions. In the past, the corresponding author may also have been the one who has off-prints of the article sitting in his office that a potential reader could request by mail , but this is no longer happening in times of the internet.
Rather, if you have questions, you may contact any of the authors of a paper.
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