Paper Short Abstract

The Contributorship Collaboration is an international network aiming to improve researcher credit. Two projects facilitate using CRediT by providing translations in over a dozen languages and engaging with publishers. Our webapp, tenzing, helps manage and report author contributions.

Paper Abstract

The Contributorship Collaboration is an international and open network of researchers. The purpose is to improve how researchers are credited for their work. Two projects make it easier for researchers and publishers to use CRediT, the contributor roles taxonomy widely used by scientific journals to indicate what each co-author did. In our CRediT translation project, we have created quality translations of the CRediT roles and descriptions into over a dozen languages. At least one fluent speaker was involved in each translation. Another facet is outreach to publishers and journals associated with these language communities, not only to make them aware of the translations but also to inform them of contributorship more generally. Tenzing, a webapp we created is available at tenzing.club, helps collaborators on a research project manage author and contributor information and report it in manuscripts.