Method Reporting with Initials for Transparency (MeRIT) promotes more granularity and accountability for author contributions.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-37039-1 and PMC identifier 10070262.
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Abstract
Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) has recently changed how author contributions are acknowledged. To extend and complement CRediT, we propose MeRIT, a new way of writing the Methods section using the author’s initials to further clarify contributor roles for reproducibility and replicability.