Role | Description |
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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 analyze 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. |
Resources | Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools. |
Software | Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components. |
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. |
Source: Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT). CRediT is licensed for permissive re-use (Creative Commons 4.0 (CC-BY).