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. 2023 Oct 18;7:126. [Version 1] doi: 10.12688/gatesopenres.14795.1
Contributor Role Role Definition Authors
Conceptualization Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and
aims.
Main Authors: SLF, BM, SEM, CEE
BRIGHT Study Team: TA, MDH, AP
Data Curation Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data
and maintain research data (including software code, where it is
necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later
reuse.
Main Authors: BM, SMC, LK, AB, MCL,
GG, LM, MP, CB, EM, ET
BRIGHT Study Team:
Formal Analysis Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other
formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Main Authors: SLF, BM, SMC, LK, AB,
MCL, GG, LM, CB, MS, ON
BRIGHT Study Team:
Funding Acquisition Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this
publication.
Main Authors: SLF, BM, LK, SEM, CEE
BRIGHT Study Team: TA, MDH, AP
Investigation Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically
performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Main Authors: SMC, BM, LK, SLF, AB,
MCL, GG, TF, EM, FN, ON, MP, MR, FS,
MS, ET
BRIGHT Study Team: LA, ABa, CBT, SB,
DC, MC, YD, NH, ED, SDa, SD, AJ, SJ, BJ,
MJ, OK, KK, JL, LS, LSt
Methodology Development or design of methodology; creation of models. Main Authors: SLF, BM, LK, AB, MCL,
LM, SEM, MR

BRIGHT Study Team: CBT, MDH, JL
Project Administration Management and coordination responsibility for the research
activity planning and execution.
Main Authors: SLF, BM, SMC, MCL, EM,
MP, MR, ET, SEM, CEE

BRIGHT Study Team: LA, TA, SB, NH,
SD, PN
Resources Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients,
laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources,
or other analysis tools.
Main Authors: SLF, CEE, SM,

BRIGHT Study Team: TA, EC, AF
Software Programming, software development; designing computer
programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting
algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Main Authors: AB, LM, CB, BM, SMC,
LK

BRIGHT Study Team:
Supervision Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity
planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core
team.
Main Authors: SLF, BM, SMC, LK, AB,
CB, MCL, EM, LM, MR, SEM, CEE

BRIGHT Study Team: LA, CBT, SB,
MDH, SD
Validation Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the
overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other
research outputs.
Main Authors: SLF, AB, BM, MCL, CB,
SCB,

BRIGHT Study Team:
Visualization Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work,
specifically visualization/data presentation.
Main Authors: SLF, BM, SMC, LK

BRIGHT Study Team:
Writing – Original Draft
Preparation
Creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically
writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Main Authors: SLF, BM, SMC, LK

BRIGHT Study Team:
Writing – Review and
Editing
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by
those from the original research group, specifically critical review,
commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.
Main Authors: SLF, BM, SMC, LK, AB,
CB, MCL, GG, TJ, EM, LM, FN, ON, MP,
MR, FS, MS, ET, SEM, CEE

BRIGHT Study Team: LA, TA, ABarjo,
CBT, SB, DC, MC, EC, YD, MDH, AF, NH,
ED, SD, AJ, SJ, BJ, MJ, OK, KK, AP, PN, LS,
LStein