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The Library: Research Visibility

Authorship

In many academic disciplines papers are the result of a number of academics contributions, rather than the work of one individual. Each of these researchers will bring different skills and talents to the output whether that be getting the funding, creating the software or writing the paper.

The CRediT taxonomy allows 14 different contribution types to be credited.

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

Tenzing (endorsed by DORA) is a tool that allows you to upload and make available the CRediT roles from a google sheet or csv file, and then export in a file suitable for sharing with publishers as well as generating some of the statements you are required to make for article submission (funding statements, conflict of interest etc.).