Fig. 1: MeRIT visualized. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: MeRIT visualized.

From: Method Reporting with Initials for Transparency (MeRIT) promotes more granularity and accountability for author contributions

Fig. 1

A diagram illustrating how a combination of CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) and MeRIT (Method Reporting with Initials for Transparency) can make author contributions clearer and more granular than CRediT alone: a without CRediT and MeRIT, one can only assume the first and/or last author would have written the text, but it cannot be certain, b CRediT can clarify some of the tasks authors did, but not all tasks, especially methodological ones, and c the use of CRediT and MeRIT together can clarify all author contributions.

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