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

Nakagawa, Shinichi; Ivimey-Cook, Edward R; Grainger, Matthew J; O'Dea, Rose E; Burke, Samantha; Drobniak, Szymon M; Gould, Elliot; Macartney, Erin L et al. · Nat Commun · 2023

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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.