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

2023/04/03 by Shinichi Nakagawa, Edward R. Ivimey‐Cook, Matthew Grainger +18 · 1 voice · 3 citations
Decision Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #Software Engineering Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37039-1

openalex publication_date 2023/04/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

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. Lack of information on authors’ contribution to specific aspects of a study hampers reproducibility and replicability. Here, the authors propose a new, easily implemented reporting system to clarify contributor roles in the Methods section of an article.

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Discussions

• There are a couple of other more granular attempts at this also e.g. MeRIT doi.org/10.1038/s414... and dragon kill points doi.org/10.1186/s129... [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]

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