The Sapientia Filipina: Review of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (SFREMS) is committed to promoting transparency, accountability, fairness, and integrity in scholarly authorship. Authorship should accurately reflect each individual's intellectual contribution to the research and publication process. All persons listed as authors must have made substantial scholarly contributions to the work and must accept public responsibility for its accuracy, originality, and integrity.

SFREMS encourages transparency in author contributions through the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) and recognizes that responsible authorship is fundamental to maintaining trust in scholarly communication across education and multidisciplinary research.

To qualify for authorship, each listed author must satisfy all of the following criteria:

1. Substantial Scholarly Contribution

The individual has made significant intellectual contributions to one or more of the following:

Routine administrative support, funding acquisition alone, or general supervision does not by itself qualify an individual for authorship.

2. Manuscript Preparation

The individual has participated in:

Authors should actively contribute to improving the scholarly quality and accuracy of the manuscript.

3. Final Approval

Each author must:

4. Accountability

Each author accepts responsibility for:

All authors share collective responsibility for the published work.

SFREMS encourages authors to include an Author Contributions Statement using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to promote transparency regarding individual contributions.

Contributor roles may include:

Authors should ensure that the reported contributions accurately reflect each individual's participation in the research.

The corresponding author serves as the primary liaison between the authors and the Editorial Office throughout the editorial and publication process.

Responsibilities include:

The corresponding author acts on behalf of all co-authors during editorial processing.

The sequence of authors should accurately represent the relative scholarly contributions of each individual.

Authors are encouraged to:

The corresponding author is responsible for confirming that:

Individuals or organizations that contributed to the research but do not satisfy the criteria for authorship should be recognized in the Acknowledgments section.

Examples include:

Acknowledgment does not imply authorship or responsibility for the published work.

Requests to add, remove, or rearrange authors after manuscript submission will be considered only under exceptional circumstances.

Such requests must include:

The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to approve or deny requests following evaluation of the supporting information.

Authorship changes requested after publication may require publication of a formal correction.

Authors are encouraged to resolve authorship disagreements before manuscript submission.

When disputes arise after submission, the journal may:

SFREMS does not adjudicate disputes regarding employment, institutional appointments, or contractual matters but may delay editorial action until authorship concerns have been satisfactorily resolved.

SFREMS does not tolerate unethical authorship practices, including but not limited to:

Such practices constitute publication misconduct and may result in editorial action.

Where authorship concerns arise, the Editorial Office may:

If misconduct is confirmed, the journal may:

Editorial actions are proportionate to the seriousness of the concern.

All authors share collective responsibility for maintaining the integrity, originality, and ethical conduct of the research.

Authors are expected to cooperate fully with the journal regarding:

Authorship carries both scholarly credit and ethical responsibility.

The Sapientia Filipina: Review of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (SFREMS) is committed to fostering responsible authorship, transparent attribution of scholarly contributions, and accountability throughout the publication process. By encouraging accurate recognition of intellectual contributions and adherence to internationally accepted authorship standards, the journal promotes fairness, academic integrity, and trust in multidisciplinary scholarly publishing.

This Authorship and Contributorship Policy has been developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles of responsible authorship, research integrity, and ethical scholarly publishing and is aligned with:

SFREMS periodically reviews and updates this Authorship and Contributorship Policy to ensure continued alignment with evolving international standards for publication ethics, research integrity, editorial transparency, and responsible open-access scholarly publishing.