How to Credit Author Contributions
Our process
SEARCH is dedicated to clearly crediting authors’ contributions in publications and other communications. As of 2022, SEARCH uses a modified version of the CRediT Taxonomy to recognize contributions made by each individual.
Conceptualization - Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims
Corresponding Author - Fields questions from editors, reviewers, readers
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 reuse
Draft Preparation - Creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation)
Formal Analysis - Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data
Integration - Synthesizing published and unpublished data and observations
Investigation - Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection
Literature Review - Locating and summarizing relevant literature
Lived Experience & Observations - Observing and sharing environmental and socio-ecological observations
Methodology - Development or design of methodology; creation of models
Investigation - Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection
Photography - Provided photographic images
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
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
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