Taxonomy

Estudios Avanzados applies CRediT taxonomy to transparently identify and acknowledge the specific contributions of each author in the research and publication of scholarly articles.

CRediT taxonomy is a standardized system composed of 14 roles that describes key contribution types made in the production and publication of research outputs. It was approved in 2022 as an ANSI/NISO standard and is available under the Creative Commons 4.0 (CC-BY) permissive license.

CRediT Contribution Roles

  1. Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
  2. Data Curation: 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.
  3. Formal Analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data.
  4. Funding Acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
  5. Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
  6. Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
  7. Project Administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
  8. Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
  9. Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
  10. Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
  11. Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
  12. Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
  13. Writing – Original Draft Preparation: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
  14. 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 – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Implementation

During the submission process, each author must specify their contributions using one or more CRediT roles. This information will be included in the final publication to ensure transparent recognition of all contributions to the research work.

Note: This policy will be implemented starting with the first issue of 2026.