Author Contribution Policy
MENTOR Revista de Investigación Educativa y Deportiva recognizes as authors those individuals who have made substantial contributions to the work and who accept responsibility for the submitted and published content.
Authorship must transparently reflect each individual’s actual participation. MENTOR does not permit honorary, guest, symbolic, or ghost authorship.
Authorship Criteria
To qualify as an author, an individual must:
- Have made a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work; acquisition, organization, analysis, or interpretation of data or evidence; methodology; technical development; or another relevant intellectual contribution.
- Have participated in drafting the manuscript or critically revising it for important intellectual content.
- Have reviewed and approved the final version to be submitted or published.
- Accept responsibility for their own contribution and cooperate, where appropriate, in resolving questions related to the accuracy or integrity of the work.
Individuals who have made relevant contributions but do not meet the authorship criteria may be acknowledged in the Acknowledgements section, where appropriate.
Funding acquisition, general supervision, holding a managerial or administrative position, institutional seniority, or academic prestige do not, by themselves, justify authorship.
CRediT Contributions
For works with more than one author, each author’s individual contribution must be declared using the CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy.
One individual may perform several roles, and the same role may be assigned to more than one individual.
Assignment of a CRediT role describes each person’s participation but does not, by itself, determine whether that person meets the criteria for authorship.
Contributions must be agreed upon by all authors and recorded in the Declaration of Originality, Authorship, and Responsibility.
The CRediT roles and corresponding instructions are available in the Author Guidelines.
Authorship Order
The order of authors must be agreed upon by all authors before manuscript submission.
MENTOR does not automatically interpret an author’s position in the author list as an indication of a greater or lesser contribution. Each individual’s participation will be made transparent through the CRediT contribution statement.
Corresponding Author
For works with more than one author, one individual must be designated as the corresponding author.
This person is responsible for maintaining communication with MENTOR and ensuring that all authors are aware of the submission, have approved the submitted version, and are informed of relevant editorial decisions and modifications made during the editorial process.
Corresponding authorship does not imply a greater scientific contribution than that of the other authors.
ORCID Identification
MENTOR requires all authors to provide an ORCID identifier during the submission process.
The identifier must be correctly recorded in the OJS metadata and must correspond to the author indicated.
Changes in Authorship
Any request to add or remove authors or change the order of authors after submission must be appropriately justified and must include the written agreement of all individuals involved.
Where applicable, the CRediT contributions and the Declaration of Originality, Authorship, and Responsibility must also be updated.
Where an unresolved authorship dispute exists, MENTOR may temporarily suspend the editorial process until the individuals involved reach an agreement or the appropriate institution resolves the matter.
Requests for authorship changes after acceptance will be exceptional and must be appropriately justified.
Where an authorship change is approved after publication, it will be implemented through a correction linked to the original article, in accordance with MENTOR’s policy on corrections and post-publication updates.
Authorship and Contributorship Declaration
As part of the submission process, all authors must complete the Declaration of Originality, Authorship, and Responsibility.
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