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Nested Knowledge Authorship Policy

Authorship decisions will be made by the Lead Collaborator responsible for completing the primary drafting. Any collaborator can make non-binding suggestions of authorship or acknowledgement.
In the case of dispute or questions, final authorship decisions will be made by the Principal Investigator.
The author list should contain all collaborators and SME/NK personnel who meet ICMJE standards of contribution on a given manuscript
To be included in the author list, any collaborator or NK personnel must have filed up-to-date Disclosures/Conflict of Interest information, institutional information, and funding with NK.

In general, the first author should be the collaborator who completes the most work and/or drives the research forward.
Order of middle authors: in general, all academic collaborators should be listed in order of level of contribution, followed by all SME/NK personnel in order of level of contribution.
In general, the senior author should be the collaborator who provides primary oversight of the drafting and editing process.

Ordered List ItemFor any collaborator, SME/NK personnel, or other individual who contributed to the software, statistics, data gathering, drafting, or support services to a level that substantially impacted the content of the manuscript, their name should be included in the acknowledgements with a brief description of their contribution.
As appropriate, the institution of any acknowledged person should be listed in the Acknowledgements section, but does not need to be noted as a conflict of interest.
The Nested Knowledge developers should be recognized in a statement such as the following, “The authors acknowledge Karl Holub, Stephen Mead, Jeffrey Johnson, and Darian Lehmann-Plantenberg for their design and support of the Nested Knowledge meta-analytical software.”

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