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According to ICMJE authorship criteria and COPE’s position statement on Authorship and AI tools, Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT, do not meet the requirements for authorship, cannot be held responsible for the content they produce and subsequently they may not be listed as (co-)authors. Authors are completely responsible for the entire content of the fin…

According to ICMJE on the role of authors and contributors: “authorship confers credit and has important academic, social, and financial implication [and] also implies responsibility and accountability for published work.”Authors are required to meet the criteria adapted from McNutt MK et al. (PNAS 2018, 115: 2557-2560, https://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1715374115). Each author is expected…

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JBRT strongly encourages authors to adhere to established reporting guidelines to ensure clarity, transparency, and reproducibility of their research. Authors should consult the EQUATOR Network Database to identify and follow the appropriate reporting checklist for their study type (e.g., PRISMA guidelines for Systematic reviews and meta-analyses (for protocols, see the PRISMA-P guidelines, ARRIVE…