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Does Sage support the CRediT contributor roles taxonomy on its journals?

Overview
Important information to note
Sage’s authorship criteria
The CRediT roles
Instructions for authors: choosing CRediT roles
CRediT and Sage Track

Overview

As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review and publication process, Sage supports the adoption of CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) on our journals. CRediT is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, which is used to describe each author’s individual contributions to the work.

Please note that not all of Sage’s journals have adopted CRediT.

Please email CRediTtaxonomy@sagepub.com with your comments or queries. Visit the CRediT website for more information.

Sage’s authorship criteria

Sage’s authorship criteria aligns with the ICMJE guidance that to qualify for authorship each individual must:

1) Have made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the article; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the article; AND

2) Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content; AND

3) Approved the version to be published; AND

4) Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Important information to note

The submitting author is responsible for listing the contributions of all authors at submission.
All authors are responsible for discussing and agreeing to their individual contributions prior to submission.
All authors are responsible for ensuring that the roles assigned are accurate.
All authors are responsible for ensuring that each author’s contributions collectively meet Sage’s authorship criteria.
Only those who meet Sage’s authorship criteria can be considered an author on a submitted paper.
Once a paper has been accepted, the author roles can’t be modified.
Not all of Sage’s journals have adopted CRediT.

The CRediT roles

#	Role	Definition
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 or later reuse.
3	Formal analysis	Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze 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 overall replication/reproducibility results/experiments/other research outputs.
12	Visualization	Preparation creation presentation published work specifically visualization/data presentation.
13	Writing – original draft	Preparation creation presentation published work specifically writing initial draft (including substantive translation).
14	Writing – review & editing	Preparation creation presentation published work by those from original research group specifically critical review commentary revision including pre-post-publication stages.

Instructions for authors: choosing CRediT roles

For journals adopting CRediT, to qualify for authorship each individual must have been responsible for:

1. At least one of the following:

Conceptualization
Methodology
Formal Analysis
Investigation

AND

2. At least one of the following:

Writing – Original Draft Preparation
Writing – Review & Editing

See the CRediT roles (above) for definitions of each of the roles listed.

IMPORTANT:

Any contributors with roles that do not constitute authorship (e.g. if Supervision, Funding Acquisition or Data curation was the sole contribution), or any author contributions not covered by the CRediT taxonomy, should be listed in the Acknowledgements.
When there is no acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work (e.g. for an Editorial) the first authorship criterion (‘substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work’) may be met by the roles 'Conceptualization' or 'Methodology'.
Authors should not include author contribution statements in the manuscript itself. Any author contribution statements will be overwritten with Sage’s standard CRediT contribution statement wording.