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Systematic Reviews for Non-Health Sciences

Reporting guidelines

Authorship

Not sure how to decide the best order for listing co-authors and acknowledging the contributions of others? Check out these resources:


CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy)

"CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to research outputs. The roles describe each contributor’s specific contribution to the scholarly output" (CRediT).

The roles describe each contributor's specific contribution to the scholarly output:

Conceptualization Resources
Data curation Software
Formal Analysis Supervision
Funding acquisition Validation
Investigation Visualization
Methodology Writing – original draft
Project administration Writing – review & editing

Many publishers have refined and integrated CRediT and other equitable authorship contribution statements into their submission, peer-review, and publication processes. Here is how it looks in a final manuscript:

  • Pereira, P., Inácio, M., Pinto, L., Kalinauskas, M., Bogdzevic, K., & Zhao, W. (2024). Mapping ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban areas. A systematic review. Geography and Sustainability, 5(3), 491–509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2024.06.002

Inclusive citation practice

Citation practices play a crucial role in academia, but they can inadvertently perpetuate biases and exclude marginalized voices. To promote equity, researchers should actively cite diverse perspectives, challenge traditional norms, and consider qualitative research alongside quantitative methods

Equitable citation practice resources

Selecting a journal

Journal listings


Journal listings and/or matching by publisher


Manuscript matching

Open access

Open access is the practice of sharing scholarly research outputs (articles, reports, data, etc.) freely online without paywall barriers. Making Duke research open access supports the university’s mission of “knowledge in the service of society” by allowing anyone with an internet connection to access groundbreaking scholarship by Duke’s researchers (Duke Libraries ScholarWorks).

Some open-access scholarly journals operate on a model of charging authors article processing fees upon acceptance. In order to reduce barriers to publishing in these journals, Duke Libraries has made agreements to waive or discount these fees for our authors.

Have questions about open-access publishing? Contact open-access@duke.edu.