Dear AIC Community,
I am pleased to inform you that the CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy will go live on JAIC on Wednesday, February 12, 2025.
What are the benefits of using the CRediT taxonomy?
- For researchers – It promotes visibility and recognition.
- For research institutions and funders – It provides greater access to information on how and where the researchers they support are making an impact, offering a more holistic view of research and its evaluation.
- For publishers – Detailed attribution of "who did what" enhances accountability, supports research integrity, and facilitates provenance checking, ultimately strengthening trust in research. Individual contributors can be assigned multiple roles, and a given role can be assigned to multiple contributors. Each named author must have at least one role.
What does this mean for authors?
CRediT is being implemented on JAIC as a mandatory field when submitting a paper. Authors will be required to select one or more of the predefined contributor roles for each co-author. Upon publication, these roles will be displayed in the author-name overlay box on Taylor & Francis Online and within the manuscript text.
The CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy enhances transparency in authorship and is endorsed by the Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA) to foster greater trust in research.
I also highly recommend reading Cory Rogge and Sarah Reidell's JAIC column in the most recent AIC News. I sincerely appreciate their effort in writing such an informative piece and would like to take this opportunity to thank them again in a public forum.
Best regards,
Julio M. del Hoyo-Meléndez
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation
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