Welcome to the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) resource hub.
CRediT is a community-owned taxonomy of 14 contributor roles designed to represent the key types of contributions typically made to research outputs, including journal articles. Originally developed to complement traditional authorship by capturing the diverse contributions behind published research, CRediT provides a structured way to describe how research is produced. While rooted in scholarly publishing, the value of contributorship information extends more broadly to support research assessment, expert discovery, research integrity, and accountability.
Approved in 2022 as an ANSI/NISO standard and licensed for permissive reuse (CC-BY 4.0), CRediT is widely adopted and available in multiple languages.
Find out more about the origins of CRediT and potential benefits of CRediT.
CRediT’s 14 Contributor Roles
A summary table of all the CRediT roles & examples
