A systematic scoping review of the ethics of Contributor Role Ontologies and Taxonomies.

ABSTRACT: Contributor Role Ontologies and Taxonomies (CROTs) provide a standard list of roles to specify individual contributions to research. CROTs most common application has been their inclusion alongside author bylines in scholarly publications. With the recent uptake of CROTs among publishers -particularly the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT)- some have anticipated a positive impact on ethical issues regarding the attribution of credit and responsibilities, but others have voiced concerns about CROTs shortcomings and ways they could be misunderstood or have unintended consequences. Since these discussions have never been consolidated, this review collated and explored published viewpoints about the ethics of CROTs. After searching Ovid Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, 30 p

SUBMITTER: Hosseini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11795455 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature