Manuel B. Garcia is a professor of information technology and the founding director of the Educational Innovation and Technology Hub (EdITH) at FEU Institute of Technology, Manila, Philippines. Read More

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Authorship Contribution Selector

Select the work a contributor performed to identify suitable CRediT roles, contribution levels, and authorship discussion points.

Map a contributor's research roles

Select every substantial contribution that applies.

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1What is the contributor's overall involvement?
2Which activities did the contributor perform?
3What was the contributor's usual level across the selected roles?
4Will the contributor review and approve the final output?
5How will authorship eligibility be determined?

Describe the contribution

Suggested CRediT roles and discussion points will appear here.

CRediT does not determine authorshipUse the taxonomy to describe contributions, then apply the target journal, institutional, or disciplinary authorship criteria separately.

Describe contribution before debating author order

Transparent role mapping makes invisible work easier to recognize.

CRediT provides 14 standardized roles that describe how research outputs are produced. A contributor may hold several roles, and each role may be shared by several people.

The selector prepares a contribution statement and identifies issues the team should resolve before submission.

Ideas and methods

Conceptualization and methodology capture intellectual design work.

Evidence and analysis

Investigation, curation, analysis, validation, and software capture technical work.

Writing and presentation

Drafting, editing, and visualization describe communication contributions.

Leadership and support

Supervision, administration, resources, and funding describe enabling roles.

The 14 CRediT contributor roles

Select all roles that accurately describe the work performed.

RoleTypical contribution
ConceptualizationIdeas, goals, aims, and overarching research direction
Data curationCleaning, documentation, organization, maintenance, and preservation of data
Formal analysisStatistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal analysis
Funding acquisitionObtaining financial support for the project
InvestigationConducting experiments, fieldwork, interviews, or data collection
MethodologyDeveloping methods, models, protocols, or study design
Project administrationCoordinating planning, execution, schedules, and team activity
ResourcesProviding materials, samples, instruments, computing, participants, or access
SoftwareDeveloping, programming, testing, or maintaining software
SupervisionLeadership, oversight, mentoring, and responsibility
ValidationVerifying methods, results, outputs, or reproducibility
VisualizationPreparing visual representations of data or findings
Writing – original draftPreparing the initial substantive manuscript or output
Writing – review & editingCritical review, revision, commentary, and improvement

Before finalizing an authorship statement

  • Discuss contributions early. Revisit the discussion when roles change.
  • Select every accurate role. Do not limit contributors to one role.
  • Confirm role assignments. Each contributor should review what is attributed to them.
  • Apply authorship criteria separately. Contribution labels do not replace publisher or institutional rules.
  • Document disagreements. Resolve disputes transparently before submission.

Avoid honorary and ghost authorship

Honorary authorship gives authorship to someone whose contribution does not satisfy the applicable criteria. Ghost authorship omits a person who made a contribution that should be disclosed.

CRediT can improve transparency, but teams still need a fair process for authorship eligibility, order, corresponding-author responsibilities, acknowledgment, and accountability.

Good practice: maintain a living contribution record from project initiation through submission.

Frequently asked questions

CRediT is a standardized taxonomy of 14 contributor roles used to describe the work people perform in producing scholarly outputs.

No. CRediT describes contributions but does not determine authorship. Journals, institutions, and disciplines may apply separate authorship criteria.

Yes. A contributor may be assigned multiple roles, and the same role may be assigned to multiple contributors.

These optional levels indicate the degree of contribution to a role. Lead indicates primary responsibility, equal indicates comparable responsibility with others, and supporting indicates a meaningful but secondary contribution.

Conceptualization covers the formulation or evolution of the overarching research goals, ideas, and aims.

Methodology covers the development or design of the study methods, models, protocols, or methodological approach.

Formal analysis covers the application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize data.

Investigation covers conducting the research and evidence-gathering process, such as experiments, interviews, fieldwork, or data collection.

Data curation covers organizing, cleaning, documenting, maintaining, and preserving research data for initial use and later reuse.

Writing – original draft covers preparing the initial substantive manuscript or other research output.

Writing – review and editing covers critical review, commentary, revision, and improvement of the research output.

Yes. Contributors should have an opportunity to review and confirm the roles attributed to them before submission or publication.

Disclaimer: This selector provides general educational guidance. CRediT describes contributor roles but does not determine authorship eligibility, author order, accountability, or acknowledgment. Apply the criteria of the target journal, publisher, institution, discipline, and applicable research-integrity policy.