Contributor Roles Taxonomy

The average number of authors per paper in scientific and medical publishing has increased significantly over the last 80 years, and it has become increasingly problematic to use author order as a proxy for someone’s contributions to a research project\cite{Brand_2015}. Coordinated by the
Contributor role    Role definition
ConceptualizationIdeas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
MethodologyDevelopment or design of methodology; creation of models
SoftwareProgramming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
ValidationVerification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Formal analysisApplication of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
InvestigationConducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
ResourcesProvision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Data CurationManagement 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 reuse.
Writing – original draft preparationCreation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing – review and editingPreparation, 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.
VisualizationPreparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
SupervisionOversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Project administrationManagement and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Funding acquisitionAcquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.