CRediT Taxonomy – Contributor Roles defined

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 and editing: preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision &ndash including pre- or post-publication stages.