Disclosure Form for Co-authoring a Publication with People with Personal Connections

■ Summary of Research Project (Based on Research Plan)

Title of Research
Research Period
Principal Investigator	(Name) (Affiliation) (Position)
Grant support	(Funding agency) (Amount of grants) won ※If the research program does not receive any funding, do not fill out this section
Participating Investigators	- Investigator A (Name/Affiliation/Position) - Investigator B (Name/Affiliation/Position) - People with personal connections (Name/Affiliation/Position)

■ Type of Relationship (Check the box)

Kinship (family and relatives)			Minor
Spouse	Offspring	Other	Acquaintance’s children	R&E Program Investigator	Other

■ Plan to co-author with someone with a personal connection (Check)

Conference		Journal
Domestic	International	Domestic	International
<Summary of Conference to present> - Name of Conference: - Title of Paper: - Location and Period: - Participating Authors:		<Summary of Journal to present> - Name of Journal: - Title of Paper: - Location and Submission: - Participating Authors:

■ Justification to list someone with personal connections as an author

※ Specify ways that someone with a personal connection contributed to the research

■ Specify the contributions by research stage (summarize)

Type	Planning Research (Research Design, Conceptualization)	Conducting Research (Data collection/ Analysis/ Interpretation/ Writing Manuscripts)	Writing Manuscripts (Writing a significant part of the paper/ Making critical revisions)	Confirming the Final Manuscript
Author A
Author B
People w/ Personal connections

※ Caution : List only individuals who qualify as legitimate authors. Specifically, not all participating investigators involved in research will necessarily meet the criteria for authorship.

Type	Planning Research	Conducting Research	Writing Manuscripts	Confirming the Final Manuscripts	Total contribution Rate	Signature for Confirmation
Author A	( )%	( )%	( )%	( )%	( )%
Author B	( )%	( )%	( )%	( )%	( )%
People w/ Personal connections	( )%	( )%	( )%	( )%	( )%
Total	( )%	( )%	( )%	( )%	( )%

■ Contribution rate and confirmation by authors <agreed among authors>

■ Research Ethics Confirmation (examples)

Items	Examples
Prevention of change and addition of authors	All of the authors jointly confirm the level of authorship: agree that author A is the lead author and authors B and C (someone with personal connections) are co-authors according to the authors’ contribution rates
Prevention of plagiarism and redundant publication	Table and figures are written by author B. Author C confirms the novelty of the research by submitting the paper to an online plagiarism check. No plagiarism of any sentences or paragraphs is detected. (Any previous research used is properly credited.)
Prevention of plagiarism by using translations	The title of the paper, keywords, independent variables, hypotheses, and originality of the research model are confirmed. The Korean and English abstracts are written based on research results. No plagiarism found after the original Korean version is submitted to an online plagiarism test.
Prevention of research misconducts	The original data used for empirical analysis are well recorded. The sources of tables and figures are indicated.
Prevention of plagiarism by using salami/ segmented publication	The most similar previous research is ( ). The presentation of the idea is by author A and author C supplemented the findings.

(     ) Month (     ) Day (      ) Year

I confirm that all of the above is true.

Name of author	Author A	Author B	People with Personal Connections
Confirmation signature