Contribution Collaboration: Translating the CrediT taxonomy into Russian

CRediT is a high-level taxonomy with 14 roles to describe author participation in scientific research. Although this taxonomy is used by thousands of journals around the world, it is currently available only in the English language. Volunteers from around the world have joined their efforts to make CRediT a multi-lingual instrument. The intention is to create not only human-readable, but also machine-readable translations that could be integrated into various systems (e.g., digital editorial offices). In this paper, we describe the process and outcome of translating the CRediT taxonomy into the Russian language. We note some flaws in the description of individual roles in the original language, which created additional translation difficulties. The question is raised about the necessity of describing the types of author participation in cases where the study is carried out by one researcher.