CRediT Taxonomy
CRediT taxonomy provides detailed classification of the different roles played to get scholarly output published, offers transparency to contributions of published works, and allows for the improvement of attribution, credit, and responsibility systems (Brand et al. 2015).
1. Conceptualization: Establishment of general ideas, objectives, and goals of the research.
2. Methodology: Development and/or design of methodology, creation of models.
3. Software: Programming and software development, computer program design, implementation of code and algorithms, testing of code components.
4. Validation: Verification of the replication and reproducibility of results, experiments, and other research outputs.
5. Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze and synthesize study data.
6. Investigation: Conducting a formal research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
7. Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, patients, animals, laboratory samples, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
8. Data curation: Management activities to produce metadata, scrub data and maintain research data for later re-use.
9. Writing – original draft: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including translation).
10. Writing – review and editing: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research team, specifically critical review, commentary – including pre- or post-publication stages.
11. Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically data visualization and presentation.
12. Supervision: Management and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
13. Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research planning and execution activities.
14. Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project execution and publication.
Application example
The responsibility of each and every author will be included in the end of every manuscript following the format below:
Lopez, A: Conceptualization, Methodology Becerra M.: Data curation, Writing – original draft Martínez, H.: Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review and editing Santos, J.: Writing – review and editing
Authors must provide information about authorship responsibility upon submitting the manuscript. CRediT Taxonomy format.
