Acknowledgements are usually a minor part of scientific papers, but they serve a very important function. This section of the manuscript is normally reserved to thank those who offered assistance, but not enough to merit authorship, funders, or any other people or organizations or artificial intelligent tools that may have in any way been directly associated either with the research reported in that study, or with the published paper. Despite this, it is not uncommon to see wide disparities in ethics and author guidelines pertaining to acknowledgements, as was observed in 45 publishing-related entities (journals, publishers, preprints, ethics organizations, open access aggregators) that were assessed in this study. Greater standardization is required, especially among members of ethics policy groups such as the Committee on Publication Ethics or the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Moreover, even though verification is an essential step of this process, it is difficult to achieve.

致谢通常是科学论文的一小部分，但它们具有非常重要的功能。手稿的这一部分通常是为了感谢那些提供帮助的人，但不足以值得作者、资助者或任何其他可能以任何方式与该报告中报告的研究直接相关的个人或组织或人工智能工具。研究，或发表的论文。尽管如此，与致谢相关的道德规范和作者指南存在巨大差异的情况并不少见，正如本研究评估的 45 个出版相关实体（期刊、出版商、预印本、道德组织、开放获取聚合商）所观察到的那样。需要更大的标准化，特别是在出版道德委员会或国际医学期刊编辑委员会等道德政策团体的成员中。此外，尽管验证是这一过程的必要步骤，但实现起来却很困难。