%0 Journal Article %T Authorship: From Credit to Accountability Reflections From the Editors¡ä Network %A Alban Dibra %A Albert Varga %A Alexander Mrochek %A Alfonso Buendia Hernandez %A Andreas J. Flammer/Fran£¿ois Mach %A Anetta Undas %A Anton Doubell %A Ariel Cohen %A Carlos Eduardo Rochitte %A Carmen Ginghina %A Chu-Pak Lau %A Claes Held %A Dario Echeverri %A Dilek Ural MD %A Dimitris Tousoulis %A Eckart Fleck %A Evgeny Shlyakhto %A Faiq Guliyev %A Faouzi Addad %A Fernando Alfonso %A Gerd Heusch %A Germanas Marinskis %A Giuseppe Di Pasquale %A Ignacio Ferreira-Gonz¨¢lez %A Ismael Guzman Melgar %A Jan J. Piek %A Jean-Jacques Monsuez %A Kanat Kabdrakhmanov %A Kjell Nikus %A Kurt Huber %A Laila Haddour %A Lino Goncalves %A Livio Dei Cas %A Luc Pierard %A Mahmoud Hassanein %A Mamanti Rogava %A Mario Ivanusa %A Mar¨ªa del Pilar Aguilar Passano %A Michael Aschermann %A Michael Boehm %A Mikael Sander %A Nuray En£¿ %A Olaf R£¿devand %A On behalf of the Editors¡¯ Network %A European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Task Force %A Parounak Zelveian %A Plamen Gatzov %A Robert Hatala %A Sebija Izetbegovic %A Slobodan Obradovi£¿ %A Tzung-Dau Wang %A Ulrike Fortm¨¹ller %A Valentyn Shumakov %A Yangsoo Jang %A Zlatko Fras %A £¿etin Erol %J Archive of "Anatolian Journal of Cardiology". %D 2019 %R 10.14744/AnatolJCardiol.2019.18124 %X The Editors¡ä Network of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) provides a dynamic forum for editorial discussions and endorses the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) to improve the scientific quality of biomedical journals. Authorship confers credit and important academic rewards. Recently, however, the ICMJE emphasized that authorship also requires responsibility and accountability. These issues are now covered by the new (fourth) criterion for authorship. Authors should agree to be accountable and ensure that questions regarding the accuracy and integrity of the entire work will be appropriately addressed. This review discusses the implications of this paradigm shift on authorship requirements with the aim of increasing awareness on good scientific and editorial practices %K editorial ethics %K scientific process %K authorship %K accountability %K scientific journals %K journals %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6528517/