举些个刊物例子,如TheAmerican Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG),2009年其IF=12.3,在Author policy中规定:“A maximum of two corresponding authors is allowed. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all appropriate contributors are listed as authors and that all authors have agreed to the manuscript’s content and its submission to AJHG.”
再如The Journal of General Physiology(JGP),2009年其IF=4.26,在“Instructions for Authors”中规定“If you wish to have two corresponding authors listed for the paper, you must designate one of them to communicate with the editorial and production offices.”
有人对什么是通讯作者作了如下定义:“This term means literally the person who handles correspondence regarding a paper, but by implication and practice, it also identifies a guarantor of the published work. We now state explicitly that the corresponding author must be a guarantor of a significant part or all of the work.”