Open source ecosystems need equitable credit across contributions

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Citation: Amanda Casari, Katie McLaughlin, Milo Z. Trujillo, Jean-Gabriel Young, James P. Bagrow, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (2021/01/14) Open source ecosystems need equitable credit across contributions. Nature Computational Science (RSS)
DOI (original publisher): 10.1038/s43588-020-00011-w
Semantic Scholar (metadata): 10.1038/s43588-020-00011-w
Sci-Hub (fulltext): 10.1038/s43588-020-00011-w
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Summary

Not all contributions are recognized in open source ecosystems. Simply listing all people who pushed code is not sufficient; not all pushes are equal, and not all contributions are pushes. Academia has the CRediT: Contributor Roles Taxonomy, where contributors are acknowledged in their various roles (conceptualization, data curation, ). Open source ecosystems should adopt a community-driven, consistent taxonomy. Allcontributors exists, but the categories are not consistent across projects.