CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to scientific scholarly output. The roles describe each contributor’s specific contribution to the scholarly output. CC-BY-4.0 Contributor Roles Taxonomy PyOBO v0.12.13-dev-207b46e9 on 2025-10-31T15:17:17.749082 by https://github.com/biopragmatics/pyobo/blob/main/src/pyobo/sources/credit.py 2022 https://credit.niso.org/ https://api.fairsharing.org/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBaUFCIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--af4f02374db4f42007e6674ea2055ccaa36aa830/credit-icon-499x500-1.png?disposition=inline has ontology root term Homo sapiens contributor role Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims. Conceptualization 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. Data curation Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data. Formal analysis Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication. Funding acquisition Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection. Investigation Development or design of methodology; creation of models. Methodology Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution. Project administration Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools. Resources Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components. Software Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team. Supervision Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs. Validation Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation. Visualization Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation). Writing – original draft 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. Writing – review & editing Charles Tapley Hoyt