The Contributor Role Taxonomy tool must serve to record extent of authorship

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• 24 February 2026

The Contributor Role Taxonomy tool must serve to record extent of authorship

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Xiaohui Xia

Hubei University, Wuhan, China.

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The Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) system was introduced in 2014 to clarify the roles of each author of a research paper (L. Allen et al. Nature 508, 312–313; 2014). Your Comment, written by authors who had a central role in developing and promoting CRediT, argues that the types of contribution should be updated and extended (L. Allen et al. Nature 648, 33–34; 2025). We agree that CRediT has improved transparency around authorship, which was its aim.

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Nature 650, 1070 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00591-z

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