Credit Taxonomy

CRediT - Taxonomy of Academic Collaboration Roles

The Revista de Historia Americana y Argentina considers it necessary to give greater visibility to how each co-author of an article collaborates, with the purpose of clarifying individual contributions, reducing disputes among authors, and facilitating academic participation. To achieve this objective, the Revista adopts the use of CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), a high-level taxonomy that includes 14 roles that can be used to represent the roles that collaborators typically play in academic and scientific production. The roles describe the specific contribution of a collaborator to academic production:

1. Project Management: responsibility for the management and coordination of the planning and execution of research activities.
2. Fundraising: Acquisition of financial support for the project that led to this publication
3. Formal Analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data
4. Conceptualization: Ideas, formulation, or development of general research objectives and goals
5. Data Curation: Management activities related to annotating (producing metadata), deleting, and maintaining research data, in phases of use and reuse (including writing software code, where these activities are necessary to interpret the data itself)
6. Writing, Reviewing, and Editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work by members of the research group, specifically, critical review, comments, or revisions, including pre- and post-publication stages
7. Research: Development of a research process, specifically, experiments or data collection/testing
8. Methodology: Development or design of methodology, creation of models
9. Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, and materials of any kind Type, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources, or other analytical tools
10. Drafting - original draft: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically, the drafting of the initial draft (includes, if relevant to the volume of translated text, translation work)
11. Software: Programming, software development, computer program design, implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms, testing of existing code components
12. Supervision: Responsibility for supervision and leadership in the planning and execution of the research activity, including external mentoring
13. Validation: Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the overall replication/reproducibility of the results/experiments and other research outcomes
14. Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically, the visualization/presentation of data.

Example of authorship statement:

Author 1: Project Management; Conceptualization; Research; Methodology; Drafting - original draft; Writing, revision, and editing; Visualization.

Author 2: Project management; Conceptualization; Data curation; Research; Methodology; Drafting; Writing, revision, and editing; Visualization.

Author 3: Project management; Conceptualization; Research; Drafting; Writing, revision, and editing; Visualization.