Ever wondered what role each author has played in a multi-authored research article? Have you been involved in the creation of an article and wished that there was more clarity about the role you played? The CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is one solution to this. Read more about it and how we are supporting it at Kent.\n<\/p>\n
CRediT<\/a> is a standardised system for describing author contributions to a research article.<\/p>\n At the University of Kent we’re keen to encourage a people-centric, open research culture. CRediT supports this by allowing everyone’s contributions to be acknowledged.<\/p>\n The University has signed up to the Technician Commitment<\/a>\u00a0and CRediT provides a practical means of recognition and visibility for our technicians working in research.\u00a0<\/strong> The taxonomy may also be particularly relevant for researchers at an early stage in their career.<\/p>\n For these reasons we wish to support and enable CRediT, so we have integrated it into our institutional repository, the Kent Academic Repository.<\/p>\n If you submit an article to a publisher who is participating in CRediT you will be asked to describe your individual contributions using the CRediT taxonomy. The CRediT role descriptions will be published next to each author’s name on the published article. More than one role can be allocated to an author. This supplies readers with a more complete understanding of each author’s role in the research.<\/p>\n For example,<\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijimpeng.2024.104897<\/a><\/p>\n The taxonomy consists of 14 roles: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal Analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing \u2013 original draft, Writing \u2013 review & editing.<\/p>\n See\u00a0https:\/\/credit.niso.org\/<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Aims of CRediT<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n CRediT<\/p>\n It may be in the author information of the article e.g. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0297157<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There may be a CRediT authorship contribution statement e.g. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eneco.2024.107524<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It may just be called Author Contributions e.g. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fsoc.2023.1270539<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Not all publishers are using this taxonomy. See this list of adopters of CRediT<\/a> for the names of publishers who are.<\/p>\n At Kent we are supporting CRediT at this early stage because it furthers Open Research and is part of a research culture that values honesty and respect.<\/p>\n We have adapted KAR to accommodate CReDiT to capture detailed author contributions and facilitates recognition for all involved.<\/p>\n We will only add CRediT information to an entry in KAR<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n For each article an\u00a0<\/b>author information\u00a0<\/b>section on the KAR landing page displays CRediT and ORCID information for the Kent author, when this information is present in the KAR record.<\/p>\n See these examples of KAR entries that include CRediT information:<\/p>\n https:\/\/kar.kent.ac.uk\/104841\/<\/a> See our CRediT guide for How to add details to a KAR entry<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy)<\/h2>\n
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Where is it in the published article?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n
How it works at Kent<\/h2>\n
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\nhttps:\/\/kar.kent.ac.uk\/105524\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/kar.kent.ac.uk\/103493\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/kar.kent.ac.uk\/104785\/<\/a>
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