Adding CRediT (the Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to the most popular open-source academic journal management system, Open Journal Systems will immediately allow hundreds of journals to recognize a wider range of types of contributions to research. We will also add uploading of CRediT to indicate who did what in a project, so researchers can use our free and open-source app tenzing.club to prepare the CRediT information.
We hypothesize that the implementation of CRediT in OJS will result in more scientific research conducted by larger and more diverse teams. Thus, in a follow-up evalutation study we plan to evaluate this hypothesis by investigating the number of authors per journal article and number of countries represented across the associated journals compared to others.
This project is funded by the Experiment Foundation.