Table of CRediT roles & examples
Explainer presentations & webinars
European Association of Science Editors (EASE) (2024) CRediT: The Contributor Role Taxonomy
Scholastica (2023) Giving credit where it’s due: what journals need to know about the Contributor Role Taxonomy
UKRI, STFC Science Cafe (2023) Improving the visibility and value of all research contributions
NISO Plus Conference (2020) CRediT: The Contributor Roles Taxonomy
Reports & blog posts
- Meadows, A. (Scholarly Kitchen) (2022) Blog post Next steps for CRediT – an interview with the Co-Chairs
- PLOS (2022) Blog post What author order can (and cannot) tell us: Understanding contributorship
- Demain, P. (ORCID) (2021) Blog post Giving CRediT where CRediT is due
- Craig, C., Hosseini, M. & McGonagle-O’Connell, A. (2019) Blog post Making research contributions more transparent: report of a FORCE workshop
- Ridley, A. (2019) Blog post Now is the time for a team-based approach to team science
- Academy of Medical Sciences (2018) Blog post Top tips for gaining recognition on team science projects
- Kerridge, S. (2018) Blog post CRediT where credit is due
- Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2017) Academic Recognition of Team Science: How to Optimize the Canadian Academic System
- Academy of Medical Sciences (2016) Improving recognition of team science contributions in biomedical research careers
- IWCSA Report – Harvard University & the Wellcome Trust (2012) Report on the International Workshop on Contributorship and Scholarly Attribution
Selected scholarly publications
All about CRediT: origins, use cases & advocacy
- González-Salmón, E., Di Césare, V., Xiao, A., & Robinson-Garcia, N. (2026). Beyond authorship: Analyzing disciplinary differences of contribution statements using the CRediT taxonomy Preprint.
- Allen L, Kiermer V, Porter S, Whittam R. A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work – and why there’s still more to do. Nature. 2025 Dec;648(8092):33-34. doi: 10.1038/d41586-025-03860-5. PMID: 41286515.
- Allen, L., Kiermer, V., Porter, S., and Whittam, R., 2025. The Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) at ten: a retrospective analysis of the diversity of contributions to published research output Preprint. Available: osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/hfbkp_v1.
- Partin, K., & Hosseini, M. (2025). Using the contributor role taxonomy (CRediT) as a tool in resolving authorship disputes at the NIH. Accountability in Research – Ethics, Integrity and Policy.
- Larivière, V., Pontille, D., Sugimoto, C.R. (2021) Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) Quantitative Science Studies, 2021; 2 (1): 111–128.
- Allen, L., O’Connell, A. & Kiermer, V. (2019) How can we ensure visibility and diversity in research contributions? How the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) is helping the shift from authorship to contributorship. Learned Publishing, 32: 71-74.
- Holcombe, A.O. (2019) Contributorship, Not Authorship: Use CRediT to Indicate Who Did What. Publications 2019, 7, 48.
- Holcombe, A. (2019) Farewell authors, hello contributors Nature 571, 147.
- Brand, A., Allen, L., Altman, M., Hlava, M., Scott, J. (2015) Beyond Authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit. Learned Publishing, 28 (2), 151-155.
- Allen, L., Brand, A., Scott, J., Altman, M., Hlava, M. (2014) Credit where credit is due. Nature, 508 (7496), 312-313.
Authorship, contributor roles: policy, ethics & implementation
- Kiermer, V., Adams, S.E., Bibbins-Domingo, K., Bueso, Y.F., Jamieson, K.H., Heber, J., Hosseini, M., Marusic, A., Nielsen, B., Skipper, M., Swamy, G.K., and Wolf, S.M., 2025. Creating a responsible authorship culture in science: Anchoring authorship practices in principles of transparency, credit, and accountability . Preprint.
- Dotson, D. S. (2024) Mega-authorship implications: How many scientists can fit into one cell? Accountability in Research, 1–24.
- Hosseini, M., Gordijn, B., Wafford, Q. E., & Holmes, K. L. (2023) A systematic scoping review of the ethics of Contributor Role Ontologies and Taxonomies Accountability in Research, 31(6), 678–705.
- Hosseini M, Colomb J, Holcombe AO, Kern B, Vasilevsky NA, Holmes K. (2023). Evolution and adoption of contributor role ontologies and taxonomies. Learned Publishing, 36(2), 275–284.
- Vasilevsky, N.A., Hosseini, M., et al (2020) Is authorship sufficient for today’s collaborative research? A call for contributor roles. Accountability in Research, 28(1), 23–43.
- Patience G.S., Galli F., Patience P.A., Boffito D.C. (2019) Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories PLoS ONE, 14 (1): e0198117.
- DeTora, L.M., Carey, M.A., Toroser, D., & Baum, E.Z. (2019) Ghostwriting in biomedicine: a review of the published literature. Current Medical Research and Opinion, 35(9), 1643–1651.
- McNutt, M.K., Bradford, M., Drazen, M.J. et al (2018) Transparency in Authors’ Contributions and Responsibilities to Promote Integrity in Scientific Publication. PNAS, 115 (11): 2557–2560.
- Mongeon P., Smith E., Joyal B., Larivière V. (2017) The rise of the middle author: Investigating collaboration and division of labor in biomedical research using partial alphabetical authorship PLoS ONE, 12(9): e0184601.
- Fontanarosa P., Bauchner H., & Flanagin A. (2017) Authorship and Team Science JAMA, 318(24): 2433–2437.
- Macaluso B., Larivière V., Sugimoto T., Sugimoto C.R. (2016) Is Science Built on the Shoulders of Women? A Study of Gender Differences in Contributorship. Acad Med, 2016 Aug; 91(8):1136-42.
- Dance, A. (2012) Who’s on first? Nature, 489: 591–593.
- Wislar J S, Flanagin A, Fontanarosa P B, DeAngelis C D. (2011) Honorary and ghost authorship in high impact biomedical journals: a cross sectional survey BMJ, 2011; 343 :d6128
- Cronin, B. (2001) Hyperauthorship: A Postmodern Perversion or Evidence of a Structural Shift in Scholarly Communication Practices? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52: (7) 558–569.
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