Contributor roles defined (Information from CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy)
- Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
- Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
- Software – Programming, software development, designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
- Validation – Verification of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs, whether as a part of the activity or separately.
- Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
- Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments or data/evidence collection.
- Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
- 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) for initial use and later re-use.
- 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.
- Visualization – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
- Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
- Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
- Funding acquisition – Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.