CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) used for recognizing individual author contributions, reducing authorship disputes and facilitating collaboration. This is required after collaborative workshops on multi author papers created under Wellcome Trust, with input from researchers.
CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work.
• The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the descriptions are accurate and agreed by all authors.
• The role(s) of all authors should be listed, using the relevant above categories.
• Authors may have contributed in multiple roles.
• CRediT in no way changes the journal’s criteria to qualify for authorship.
Please select CRediT statements provided below during the submission process. This information will appear above references section of the published paper as shown further below as an example.
Two-column Table Example
Term
Definition
Conceptualization
Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims
Methodology
Development or design of methodology; creation of models
Software
Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components
Validation
Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/ reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs
Formal analysis
Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data
Investigation
Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection
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 reuse
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
Visualization
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/ data presentation
Supervision
Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team
Project administration
Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution
Funding acquisition
Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication
