CRediT in action – a global study: How is it used by researchers? How can it be used by institutions?
Simon Porter1 1Digital Science
Abstract
Developed in 2014, CRediT is a taxonomy of 14 contributor roles that provides a standardised framework for acknowledging individual contributions to research projects. Although slow to gain traction, use of the CRediT was adopted by PLOS in 2016, with other publishers also initiating implementations. In 2019, the CRediT ontology was acknowledged as an important part of The World Conference for Research Integrity Hong Kong Principles for assessing researchers. The use of CRediT is seen as a way to not only recognise the contributions of all researchers, but also as a way to deter questionable authorship practices by asking authors to formally specify the role that they have played. In 2022, The CRediT ontology was adopted as a NISO standard
So how is theCRediT ontology being used? By 2022 the Credit ontology was used just under 1% of global outputs, and 31% of all author contribution statements. Slightly more papers using the CRediT ontology were published in Springer Nature as compared to PLOS, and seven times as many in MDPI, with other publishers also showing increased adoption profiles. In this presentation, we further explore the use of CRediT by discipline, country, publisher, and journal.
How can the CRediT ontology be used by institutions? By resolving credit statements to individual authors, this presentation will explore how profiles of research software developers, and data curators can be developed, linking through to traditional metrics such as citations, but also other indicators such as the sharing of data and code.
Biography
Simon Porter has forged a career transforming university practices in how data about research is used, both from administrative and eResearch perspectives. As well as making key contributions to research information visualization, he is well known for his advocacy of Research Profiling Systems and their capability to create new opportunities for researchers.