The manuscript submission process requires a formal contribution statement. The corresponding author prepares this statement based on the documented roles. Each author is listed with their specific CRediT roles. This breakdown offers immediate clarity to readers, editors, and evaluators.
CRediT List
The CRediT Taxonomy presents a modern solution. CRediT, or Contributor Roles Taxonomy, is a standardized list of 14 roles, which describe specific task(s) of each contributor.
| Role | Definition |
|---|---|
| Conceptualization | Ideas formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims |
| Data curation | Management activities to annotate scrub data and maintain research data 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 |
The benefits of stating this taxonomy in a scolarly-processed articles are significant. CRediT directly addresses ghost and gift authorship. The framework guarantees credit for all substantive work for each contributor. This approach promotes a more equitable and ethical research culture.
