Ontology

CREDIT

Contributor Roles Taxonomy

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to scientific scholarly output. The roles describe each contributor’s specific contribution to the scholarly output.

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E37

FAIR 39/48

Version 2022

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagecredit.niso.org DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)credit20221610125 Oct 2026

Ontology IRI https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/credit/credit.ofn
Version IRI https://w3id.org/biopragmatics/resources/credit/2022/credit.ofn

Languages en

Imports from (2)
IAO NCBITaxon

Reused by (1)
VALUESETS

Also registered as
fairsharing: FAIRsharing.fe4816 ols: credit tib.ts: credit

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR11/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)w3id.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)3: OLS, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+4
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01715-4+3
A Accessible FAIR9/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP fetch failed0
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR10/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 2: iao, ncbitaxon+2
R Reusable FAIR9/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2022 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & quality0/20
  • Logical consistencynever checked by a reasoner0
  • OWL 2 DL profileprofile not checked0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentno BFO/COB/DOLCE import found0
  • Standard relations (RO)does not import the Relation Ontology0
  • ROBOT report: no errorsno ROBOT report available0
  • ROBOT report: warning densityno ROBOT report available0
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan or ROBOT report yet0
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recencyno activity evidence0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption3/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies1: valuesets+1
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 269 → 2)+2
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5
  • No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencynot yet checked by a reasoner0

FAIR subtotal 39/48 · earned 42/100 − 5 inactivity = 37/100 → grade E

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

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History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC37 E39202216JSON

Provenance

Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP fetch failed)credit.niso.org26 Oct 2026, 02:48 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)w3id.org26 Oct 2026, 02:48 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:48 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:48 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:48 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01715-4)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:48 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1038/508312a)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:48 UTC

Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot

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