CIPM MRA-G-04: CIPM MRA Guidelines for authorship of Key, Supplementary and Pilot Study comparison reports

Introduction It is noted that the number of authors of reports of Key, Supplementary and Pilot Study Comparisons, produced under the aegis of the CIPM MRA, and published in the KCDB and/or METROLOGIA and its electronic supplement, varies strongly from one to fifty. [...] It is also noted that the conditions to qualify for authorship in the scope of the CIPM MRA have not been defined, which leads to misunderstanding and wrong (over- or under-) appraisal of the real contribution and the quality of that contribution to the report by the different co- authors. [...] In many cases the performance of the institute and of the individual scientist is measured by considering the number of publications produced. [...] Requirements for authorship of reports in the scope of the CIPM MRA In order to qualify as an author of the project/comparison report every individual shall have made at least a substantial intellectual contribution in at least one of the following activities: conception, experimental design and evolution of the project/comparison; scientific performance of the research, having executed at lea. [...] If desirable, in a separate chapter of the article acknowledgement can be given to those persons also having contributed to the project/comparison, for example with important technical assistance, data collection, review of the manuscript and funding of the project/comparison (this may include heads of laboratories having made available the necessary means and having approved the execution of the.