Swap authorship for ‘movie credits’ approach, academics suggest

LERU need to keep up with their research, this is already happening. CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) - https://credit.niso.org/

Interesting piece and to see this. Wonder if the LERU team are aware of the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) that was developed to help resolve this issue in some small way - now a NISO ANSI standard and used by many publishers (see https://credit.niso.org/). Also see article here that sets our the use case https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/leap.1210

Looking at the full report: https://www.leru.org/files/Publications/2023.09.08_Authorship-paper_fullpaper_DEF.pdf I see that there is in fact much reference to CRediT (the Contributor Role Taxonomy: https://credit.niso.org/ ). So that is great news, hoping that this will drive even more uptake.

Good idea for the hard sciences, where publications tend to be reports of experiments and other results. Not sure it's suitable for more theoretical subjects, such as maths, physics, Arts & Humanities and some social sciences, where academia trades in original ideas rather than discoveries.