CRediT
Michaela Barton
UK Account Coordinator
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1326-0245
CRediT: Where credit is due…
“What we cannot tell easily by reading a paper is who did what. That is
difficult to decipher by consulting the author lists, acknowledgements or
contributions sections of most journals; and the unstructured information is
difficult to text-mine1, 2.
Developments in digital technology present opportunities to do something
about this. With the right 'taxonomy', manuscript-submission software could
enable researchers to assign contributor roles relatively easily in structured
formats during the process of developing and publishing a paper.”
Liz Allen, Jo Scott, Amy Brand, Marjorie Hlava & Micah Altman: Publishing:
Credit where credit is due, Nature 508, 312–313 (17 April 2014)
doi:10.1038/508312a
Overview
• Research Funders spend $1.6 trillion per year
• Research funders require more explicit and
granular information about specific contributions
of each individual author
• Who did the research? (ORCiD)
• What did they do?
• CRediT – Contributor Role Taxonomy
CRediT
“A standard is just a suggestion until somebody uses it”
Deploying CRediT
• Integrated into workflow (Manuscript tracking
system)
• Scalable
• Industrial strength
• Easy to activate
Submission and Peer-Review
• Editorial Manager - used by thousands of journals
• Millions of manuscripts submitted and processed each
year
ORCiD…
You need a system in place for capturing
authenticated ORCiDs before CRediT becomes a
useful tool
ORCiD: Workflow - CoAuthors
Submission
Editorial Manager Workflow
Dear Coauthor,
Coauthors
Please click here
to confirm your
ORCID.
Design considerations
Implementing CRediT
CRediT: Developing New
Standards?
CRediT: Article types where it
doesn’t make sense?
(e.g. letter to the editor, book review)
CRediT: Collecting standardized
“CRediT”detail
CRediT: Collecting standardized
“CRediT”detail
CRediT: Other?
CRediT: Editorial Office Visibility
CRediT: Emails? – Mergefields!
CRediT: Contributing Author
Visibility
Editorial Manager Workflow
Submission
Dear Coauthor,
You contributed
“conceptualization” to
paper XYZ. Click here to
confirm….
Coauthors
CRediT: Transferring information
Peer Review
Workflow
JATS Ingest
Production Workflow
XML Transfers
JATS
Hosting
Platform
CRediT in XML: JATS?
JATS does not yet have an "official" place for this
information
Editorial Manager exports the information within
the <role> sub-element of the <contrib> element
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<role content-type="1" /> [indicates Author Rank]
<role content-type="Conceptualization"/> [indicates Contributor Role]
<role content-type="Formal analysis"/> [indicates Contributor Role]
<role content-type="Chief Cook & Bottle Washer"/> [indicates Contributor Role]
<name>
CRediT: and Reporting…
CRediT: Summary
• Integrated into your Editorial Manager workflow
• Industrial strength - scalable
• Builds on existing infrastructure: ORCiD
• Easy to activate (and free)
• Video: http://www.ariessys.com/views-andpress/resources/video-library/credit-integration
CRediT
Michaela Barton
UK Account Coordinator
[email protected]
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1326-0245