Welcome to the website and resource hub for the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT). Here you can discover the origins of CRediT, find out how the taxonomy is being used, and access a range of resources to help you consider its value and potential uses.
CRediT is a community-owned 14 role taxonomy that can be used to describe the key types of contributions typically made to the production and publication of research output such as research articles.
In 2022 CRediT was approved as an ANSI/NISO standard; CRediT is licensed for permissive re-use (Creative Commons 4.0 (CC-BY)). CRediT descriptors are now available in a range of languages, see CRediT language translations.
CRediT’s 14 Contributor Roles
(A PDF document listing the roles and definitions is available.)
