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An editorial is presented on authorship, contributorship, and acknowledgements. Topics include that the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information has developed a taxonomy for assigning credit to authors in science publications named CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy); and the inclusion of methodology, project administration, and writing part of review & editing.

Acknowledgements have caught the attention of policy makers as they, like citations, indicate influential contributions to a scientific work. The present paper analyzes the acknowledgements-funding and personal- of the research output of the University of Kerala for the period 2001-2018. Of the 1972 records extracted from the Web of Science, 829 records (42%) had funding information. Among the countries, other than India, the United States was the leading country with 26 funding agencies. There were 166 unique funding agencies of which the Government agencies were the predominant funders. Though Chemistry had the largest number of funded publications, the research area of Geology was seen to be funded by the largest number of 25 funding agencies. Personal acknowledgements were categorized into five main categories and the category- "Access to Research Related Information" accounted for 46.02% and "Peer Interactive Communication" accounted for 16.82% of the acknowledgements. The lack of consistency of acknowledgment data still poses difficulty in analyzing the acknowledgment section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bibliographic databases are now providing systematic funding acknowledgement data for their indexed publications. This paper considers how such new data might be used for policy purposes and some key issues arising. While provision of such comprehensive data is recent, there is already sufficient data in the Web of Science to examine a controversy in research policy in which funding acknowledgement data is involved, namely the relationship between the count of a paper's funding sources and its citation impact. Analyses of publications from 2009 from journals Cell and Physical Review Letters suggests understanding of the relationship between impact of a publication and its count of funding sources is not complete and may be more complicated than previously believed. It is proposed that research findings are packaged by researchers into papers in a variety of ways and for a variety of purposes. Individual funding quanta from whatever source are not therefore inputs to papers directly; rather, such funding supports a process that has among its outcomes the production of papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A correction to the article "Crane scheduling for opportunistic remarshaling of containers in an automated stacking yard," by Ri Choe and colleagues, that was published online on April 12, 2014 is presented.

The article presents instructions for the preparation of articles for the publication of the journal. The different parts that should be included in the content are explored in terms of abstract and keywords, introduction and acknowledgements. The basic norms demanded for structuring the bibliography are also outlined.

The article acknowledges the contributions of the reviewers who contributed to assure that the reports and educational piece in the journal are of highest standard.