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CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy

CRediT (Contributor Roles

Taxonomy) is high-level taxonomy,
including 14 roles, that can be used
to represent the roles typically
played by contributors to scientific
scholarly output. The roles describe
each contributor’s specific
contribution to the scholarly
output.

14 Contributor Roles

Conceptualization Resources
Data curation Software
Formal Analysis Supervision
Funding acquisition Validation
Investigation Visualization
Methodology Writing – original draft
Project administration Writing – review & editing

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Contributor Roles Defined

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals

and aims.
Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data
and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for
interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other
formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Funding acquisition ​- Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to
this publication.
Investigation – ​Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically
performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the
research activity planning and execution.
Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory
samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software – Programming, software development; designing computer programs;
implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing
code components.
Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity
planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Validation – Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall
replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work,
specifically visualization/data presentation.
Writing – original draft – ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published
work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing – review & editing – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the
published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review,
commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.

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Background

Benefits

Adopters

How to Implement CRediT

Links of Interest

Meet the Chairs

Get Involved
We have been overwhelmed by the interest in CRediT to date and are working to support adoption
and encourage practical usage. We are also working to ensure that CRediT is tied to ORCID and
included in the Crossref metadata capture.

CRediT is currently managed as an informal standard at CASRAI and we are working towards
formal standardisation of the taxonomy at NISO.

But please do get involved by joining the community CRediT Interest Group, spreading the word,
and providing feedback!

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