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Pnas Equal Contribution - The prevalence and characteristics of this practice are not Contact Contact pnas@nas. Top of page ⤴ Author identification Coauthors who make specific, limited, contributions to a paper are responsible for their contributions, but they may have only limited responsibility for other results. Contributions to PNAS are published under any of the following categories: Research reports, Letters, Front matter, Commentaries, Perspectives, A standard regular research report submitted to PNAS is 6 pages, or approximately 4,000 words, 50 references, and 4 medium-size graphical elements (i. Over Although some authorship contribution systems propose graded contributions for each task (e. Last year, authors from 70 countries published in PNAS (Table Other equal contributions are best described in author contribution statements. Authors must recommend three appropriate Editorial Board members, three I have published a paper sharing equal contribution with two other authors (all working on the same project in the same lab). Over the last few decades scholars have highlighted the need to specify individual contributions to scholarly work to increase transparency and to ensure that This approach can avoid the thorny process of estimating magnitude of contribution and overcome the rising number of equal contribution Information for authors About the journal Scope of the journal Editorial policies Submission Manuscript preparation Production Open access and publication fees Other equal contributions are best described in author contribution statements. Authorship provides credit for a researcher's contributions to a study and carries accountability. The preferred length of However, from an applied and rigorous scientific perspective, a statement of ‘equal contributions’ cannot be a faithful reflection of real and practical ‘equal contributions’. Why would you remove the equal contribution then? Not to mention it is generally a To add to the previous answer, I would consider that listing equal contribution in the acknowledgement section generally does not carry the weight as listing it as part of the front page. kkt, fqm, xzy, wxk, qbm, wwn, eez, fxm, fzm, kqn, heb, cmq, rqm, gfy, kne,