Amgen is committed to the highest scientific and ethical standards for publications and is dedicated to providing scientifically accurate, fair, and well-balanced publications to the scientific community (eg, manuscripts, review articles, and abstracts; posters, and/or oral presentations for a scientific congress that contain Amgen-sponsored data, have Amgen authors, or for which Amgen provides writing and/or editorial assistance).

Authorship Criteria

Amgen’s guidelines for authorship of publications are consistent with criteria developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org)¹. Specifically:

• All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all who qualify should be listed.
• Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
• One or more authors should take full responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article.

In addition, authors must meet all three of the following authorship criteria:

• Substantial contribution to one or more of the following: conception and design, or acquisition of the data, or analysis and interpretation of the data. AND
• Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content. AND
• Final approval of the version to be published.

Amgen does not support the practice of using either guest authorship, ghost writing, or plagiarism on publications. Guest authoring is the practice in which the names of individuals who did not contribute substantially to the publication appear on the byline. Ghost writing is the practice in which individuals who wrote the publication are neither acknowledged nor listed on the byline.

Drafting the Publication

Authors participate and provide substantive input throughout the development of a publication.

Access to Study Results

Amgen provides the pertinent study results supporting a publication to all authors. At an external author’s request, access to additional data from the study may also be provided.

Acknowledgments and Disclosures

Financial support, technical assistance, or contributions of those who do not meet the criteria for authorship (eg, a medical writer or other subject-matter expert) are acknowledged.

All authors are responsible for recognizing, acknowledging, and disclosing financial or potential conflicts of interest that might bias their work, as required by the pertinent journal or congress.

Reference

1. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals (Updated October 2008). Available at: www.icmje.org. Accessed November 13, 2009.