Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)
The Primary Education Journal is adopting Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT). On this page you will discover how CRediT can benefit researchers, research institutions, funders, and publishers, the definitions of the 14 CRediT roles, and how these roles will be displayed on The Primary Education Journal.
Please note, all authors listed on a manuscript must meet the authorship criteria as stated on this page: Defining authorship in your research paper. We use these criteria to define the term ‘author’ wherever it appears on this page.
What is CRediT?
The Primary Education Journal supports Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). DORA’s vision is to advance practical and robust approaches to research assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines. One of several initiatives that support DORA is the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT).
CRediT is a system that includes 14 roles for describing the roles and contributions of people involved in a research project. To date, this has been adopted by over 40 publishers.
- For researchers – it promotes visibility and recognition. For single or multi-author papers the taxonomy provides a consistent way of capturing each author’s expertise and provides transparency for readers. For papers with a single author they should select the roles relevant to them, it is not required that they fulfil all the roles in the taxonomy.
- For research institutions and funders – it gives greater access to information about how and where the researchers they support are making a difference helps to support a more holistic view of research and research evaluation.
- For publishers – having more information on “who did what” provides accountability and supports research integrity and provenance checking – helping to ensure trust in research.
Individual contributors can be assigned multiple roles, and a given role can be assigned to multiple contributors. Each named author should have at least one role.
What are CRediT roles?
Authors (or agents) creating a new submission can select one or more of the 14 pre-defined contributor roles, to give each author specific credit for their work.
The 14 CRediT roles that can be added are:
| Conceptualization | Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims. |
| Data curation | Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use. |
| Formal analysis | Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data. |
| Funding acquisition | Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication. |
| Investigation | Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection. |
| Methodology | Development or design of methodology; creation of models. |
| Project administration | Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution. |
| Software | Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components. |
| Resources | Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools. |
| Supervision | Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team. |
| Validation | Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs. |
| Visualization | Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation. |
| Writing – original draft | Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation). |
| Writing – review & editing | Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages. |
How are CRediT roles displayed on The Primary Education Journal?
Upon publication, the CRediT roles will be visible with the author name in the manuscript text. Please note this should be removed if preparing an anonymised version of an article to undergo double-anonymised peer review.
