Author Contribution Policy

Author Contribution

MENTOR Journal of Educational and Sports Research considers authors of a submitted work as individuals who have made a significant intellectual contribution to the development of the work. In accordance with the guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the following requirements must be met to be listed as an author:

  1. Have participated in the conception and design, or in the acquisition of data, or in the analysis and interpretation of data that has resulted in the article.

  2. Have participated in the drafting or critical revision of the text.

  3. Have approved the final version to be published.

Researchers who do not meet these three criteria may be acknowledged in the acknowledgments section. To avoid the risk of fictitious or usurped authorship, it is recommended that, at the time of submitting the manuscript, all authors agree on their contributions and document them in the following document: Declaration of Originality.

The contribution or role of each author should be specified, preferably using the criteria established by the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy):

Conceptualization - Ideas; formulation or evolution of the overall research objectives and goals. Data curation - Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data, and maintain research data (including software code when necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse. Formal analysis - Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data. Funding acquisition - Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication. Investigation - Conducting a research study and investigation process, specifically performing experiments or data/evidence collection. Methodology - Development or design of the methodology; creation of models. Project administration - Management and coordination responsibility for the planning and execution of research activity. Resources - Supplying study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources, or other analysis tools. Software - Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementing computer code and supporting algorithms; testing existing code components. Supervision - Supervision and leadership responsibility for the planning and execution of research activities, including external mentoring of the core team. Validation - Verification, either as part of the activity or separate, of the general replicability/reproducibility of the results/experiments and other research products. Visualization - Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically the visualization/presentation of data. Writing - original draft - Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically the initial draft writing (including substantial translation). Writing - review and editing - Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by the original research group members, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision - including pre- or post-publication stages.

Authors should establish the order in which they will appear in the co-author list, determining the sequence based on the 'sequence-determines-credit' approach (SDC) where the order indicates the importance of the contribution.

The opinions and facts stated in each article are the sole responsibility of the authors, as well as the ethical suitability of the article. Authors must explicitly state that the text is their own and that it respects the intellectual property rights of third parties. It is also their responsibility to ensure that they have the necessary permissions to use, reproduce, and print material that is not their own/authorship (tables, graphs, maps, diagrams, photographs, etc.). By submitting an article, authors accept that it is original and has not been submitted for consideration or published in any other journal.

To avoid name confusion and ensure proper attribution of publications and citations, this journal requires ORCID IDs for all authors.

Changes in Authorship

If authors wish to make any additions, deletions, or reordering of

authorship before the manuscript is accepted, they must request it from the Journal Director, explaining the reason for the change, and send a written and signed confirmation from all authors to the email rjposso@revistamentor.ec.

Note: If the manuscript is already published online, any approved change request will result in a corrigendum.

Author Conflict of Interest

When submitting an article to MENTOR Journal of Educational and Sports Research, all authors are responsible for declaring any financial or personal relationships with any public or private entity that could intentionally influence the results of their article.

Authors must disclose any non-financial relationship that could lead to a conflict of interest in their manuscript (personal, academic, ideological, intellectual, political, or religious). The aim is not to prevent authors with potential conflicts of interest from publishing; rather, it is to ensure that such conflicts can be clearly identified so that readers can judge if the authorship could be affected by any predisposition that might influence the article.

At the end of the published article, a note titled "Author Contribution and Conflict of Interest" will be added.