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CRediT Author Statement
The Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) ensures that every author receives specific credit for their portion of the research. This should be included at the end of the manuscript, before the references.
Instructions for Authors: Please list all authors and their specific contributions using the roles below. Authors may have multiple roles, and multiple authors may share a single role.
CRediT Author Statement
- [Author Name 1]: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – Original Draft.
- [Author Name 2]: Software, Data Curation, Validation, Visualization.
- [Author Name 3]: Formal Analysis, Investigation, Writing – Review & Editing.
- [Author Name 4]: Funding Acquisition, Project Administration, Supervision.
Standard Roles Defined:
- Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals.
- Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
- Software: Programming, software development; designing computer code.
- Validation: Verification of the overall replication/reproducibility of results.
- Formal Analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, or computational techniques to analyze data.
- Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments or data/evidence collection.
- Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, or computing resources.
- Data Curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data.
- Writing – Original Draft: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft.
- 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.
- Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
- Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
- Project Administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
- Funding Acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
