Contributor Roles

Contributor Roles Taxonomy.

• 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 & 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.