CRediT Author Statement

Credit Author Statement

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) was introduced to recognise individual author contributions, reduce authorship disputes, and facilitate collaboration. It offers authors the opportunity to provide an accurate, detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work.

CRediT statements should be provided during the submission process and will appear above the Acknowledgement section of the published paper. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the descriptions are accurate and agreed upon by all authors.

The role(s) of all authors should be listed using the relevant categories below. Authors may have contributed in multiple roles.

Term Definition
Conceptualization Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Methodology Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Validation Verification of the overall replication or reproducibility of results, experiments, and other research outputs.
Formal Analysis Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Investigation Conducting the research process, including experiments and data or evidence collection.
Resources Provision of study materials, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Data Curation Management activities to annotate, clean, preserve, and maintain research data for initial use and future reuse.
Writing – Original Draft Preparation, creation, and presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft.
Writing – Review & Editing Critical review, commentary, or revision of the manuscript before or after publication.
Visualization Preparation and presentation of visual elements and data representation.
Supervision Leadership and oversight of the research planning and execution, including mentoring.
Project Administration Management and coordination responsibility for research planning and execution.
Funding Acquisition Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.

Sample Statement

[Author A]: Conceptualization, Methodology.

[Author B]: Data Curation, Writing – Original Draft Preparation.

[Author C]: Visualization, Investigation.

[Author D]: Supervision, Validation, Writing – Review & Editing.