Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit

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<jats:title>Key points</jats:title><jats:p><jats:list list-type="bullet"> <jats:list-item><jats:p>As the number of authors on scientific publications increases, ordered lists of author names are proving inadequate for the purposes of attribution and credit.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>A multi‐stakeholder group has produced a contributor role taxonomy for use in scientific publications.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>Identifying specific contributions to published research will lead to appropriate credit, fewer author disputes, and fewer disincentives to collaboration and the sharing of data and code.</jats:p></jats:list-item> </jats:list></jats:p>

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