Implementation landscape
CRediT adoption today
More than 50 organisations support CRediT, including most major publishers. Implementation depth varies — structured vs. narrative — and that is the next adoption frontier.
18
Structured CRediT capture in the submission flow; production-grade JATS output.
1
Supported but not required; per-journal opt-in at the editors discretion.
10
Coverage varies across the portfolio; some titles native, some narrative-only.
Per-publisher deep dives
Twenty publisher entries, grouped by adoption status
The CRediT adoption tracker has a dedicated page for each of 29 publishers, covering the submission system, JATS implementation, author guidance, sample journals, and notable adoption history. Use the tiles below to drill into any publisher. Each page also surfaces alphabetically-adjacent publishers so you can move laterally across the cohort.
Native
18 publishersStructured CRediT capture in the submission flow; production-grade JATS output.
AAAS
NativeAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
~6 journals · adopted 2021
The Science family of journals requires a structured CRediT contributor statement on accepted manuscripts. Authors map each contributor to one or more of...
Read deep-dive →ACS
NativeAmerican Chemical Society (ACS Publications)
~80 journals · adopted 2017
ACS Publications captures structured CRediT statements at submission across the chemistry portfolio. The publisher participated in early CRediT pilots, and...
Read deep-dive →AGU
NativeAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU)
~25 journals · adopted 2018
AGU requires CRediT contributor statements for its journal portfolio, published on Wileys platform. The roles are captured at submission and appear in the...
Read deep-dive →BMC
NativeSpringer Nature (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group)
~300 journals · adopted 2018
BioMed Central journals require structured CRediT author contribution statements as part of the standard submission and publication workflow, in line with...
Read deep-dive →BMJ
NativeBMJ Publishing Group
~70 journals · adopted 2018
BMJ Publishing Group requires structured CRediT contributor statements across its journal portfolio. The role matrix is part of the manuscript metadata and...
Read deep-dive →Cell Press
NativeElsevier (RELX Group)
~50 journals · adopted 2014
Cell Press piloted CRediT before the formal taxonomy publication, with Cell among the very first journals to publish structured contributor statements....
Read deep-dive →eLife
NativeeLife Sciences Publications, Ltd (non-profit)
~1 journals · adopted 2018
eLife requires a structured CRediT contributor statement on every submission. Roles are part of the manuscript record and are published with the article...
Read deep-dive →Elsevier
NativeRELX Group
~2,500 journals · adopted 2018
Elsevier requires structured CRediT contributor statements for all submissions to Editorial Manager journals since 2018, with the data captured during the...
Read deep-dive →Frontiers
NativeFrontiers Media SA
~250 journals · adopted 2023
Frontiers integrated structured CRediT capture across its journal portfolio as part of a 2023 rollout. The role matrix is part of the submission record and...
Read deep-dive →MDPI
NativeMDPI AG (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)
~440 journals · adopted 2019
MDPI requires an author-contributions statement using the CRediT taxonomy on its research articles. The role matrix is captured during submission and...
Read deep-dive →Nature
NativeSpringer Nature (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group)
~1 journals · adopted 2018
Nature and all journals in the Nature Portfolio require a structured contributor statement using the CRediT taxonomy. The role matrix is captured during...
Read deep-dive →PLOS
NativePublic Library of Science (non-profit)
~12 journals · adopted 2016
PLOS mandates structured CRediT contributor statements on every submission. The publisher has been a CRediT pioneer and reference implementer since 2016,...
Read deep-dive →PNAS
NativeNational Academy of Sciences (NAS)
~2 journals · adopted 2020
PNAS requires a structured author contribution statement using the CRediT taxonomy. Authors provide a CRediT matrix during submission, and the statement is...
Read deep-dive →Royal Society of Chemistry
NativeRoyal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
~50 journals · adopted 2020
The Royal Society of Chemistry supports CRediT contributor statements across its journals, with structured capture in ScholarOne integrated as part of the...
Read deep-dive →SAGE Publishing
NativeSAGE Publications
~1,100 journals · adopted 2019
SAGE Publishing supports structured CRediT contributor statements via ScholarOne across its journal portfolio. The roles are part of the manuscript metadata...
Read deep-dive →Springer Nature
NativeHoltzbrinck Publishing Group
~3,000 journals · adopted 2018
Springer Nature requires CRediT contributor statements across the Nature portfolio and supports structured capture across the wider Springer and BMC journal...
Read deep-dive →The Royal Society
NativeThe Royal Society (Royal Society Publishing)
~10 journals · adopted 2018
The Royal Society requires an author-contributions statement on its research articles and recommends the CRediT taxonomy. The role information is captured...
Read deep-dive →Wiley
NativeJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.
~1,700 journals · adopted 2019
Wiley captures structured CRediT contributor statements across its journal portfolio via ScholarOne. The role matrix is part of the manuscript record,...
Read deep-dive →Available
1 publishersSupported but not required; per-journal opt-in at the editors discretion.
Variable
10 publishersCoverage varies across the portfolio; some titles native, some narrative-only.
ACM
VariableAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
~80 journals
ACM sets out authorship expectations in its policy on roles and responsibilities in ACM publishing, which defines author criteria and the recognition of...
Read deep-dive →Annual Reviews
VariableAnnual Reviews, Inc. (non-profit)
~50 journals
Annual Reviews publishes authoritative invited review articles. Authorship follows the publishers author guidelines; given the invited, often single- or...
Read deep-dive →Cambridge University Press
VariableCambridge University Press & Assessment
~430 journals
Cambridge University Press supports CRediT on a per-journal opt-in basis. Editorial teams of individual titles decide whether to capture structured...
Read deep-dive →De Gruyter
VariableWalter de Gruyter GmbH (De Gruyter Brill)
~400 journals
De Gruyter supports author-contributions reporting on its journals, with structured CRediT capture available on titles that have adopted it. Given the...
Read deep-dive →IEEE
VariableIEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
~200 journals
IEEE governs authorship through its own publication-ethics and authorship policy, which sets out the criteria for being named an author and for...
Read deep-dive →IOP Publishing
VariableIOP Publishing (Institute of Physics)
~85 journals · adopted 2019
IOP Publishing supports CRediT contributor statements via ScholarOne across its physics-and-engineering portfolio. Adoption is per-journal; flagship...
Read deep-dive →Karger
VariableS. Karger AG
~120 journals
Karger supports CRediT on titles that have adopted the structured capture module in Editorial Manager. The publisher has adopted CRediT on a per-journal...
Read deep-dive →Oxford Academic
VariableOxford University Press (University of Oxford)
~500 journals · adopted 2020
Oxford University Press supports CRediT across the Oxford Academic portfolio with adoption decided at the individual-journal level. The largest STEM and...
Read deep-dive →Taylor & Francis
VariableInforma plc
~2,700 journals
Taylor & Francis supports CRediT on a per-journal opt-in basis across its very broad portfolio. STEM and biomedical titles are more likely to require...
Read deep-dive →Wolters Kluwer
VariableWolters Kluwer N.V. (Health division)
~280 journals
Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott) supports CRediT on titles that have adopted the structured capture module in Editorial Manager. Coverage is per-journal and...
Read deep-dive →Tier view
The adoption landscape at a glance
Mandate-level adoption
PLOS
Mandatory across the portfolio since 2017; structured metadata, not narrative.
eLife
Mandatory since 2017; PubSweet integration.
Cell Press
Integrated portfolio-wide via Editorial Manager.
Major-portfolio adoption
Elsevier
Supported portfolio-wide; Editorial Manager integration; author guide at elsevier.com.
Springer Nature
Nature portfolio + SpringerLink journals.
Wiley
Portfolio-wide; ScholarOne integration.
Taylor & Francis
Author guidance at authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com.
SAGE
Portfolio-wide; author guidance published.
Cambridge University Press
Selected journals.
Oxford University Press
Selected journals (e.g. British Medical Bulletin).
MDPI
Top-four by volume of CRediT-tagged publications.
Frontiers
Top-four by volume.
Submission systems
Editorial Manager (Aries)
Used by Elsevier, Wiley, T&F, OUP, SAGE, and most society publishers.
ScholarOne (Clarivate)
Used by Wiley, T&F, OUP, SAGE.
PubSweet / Coko
Used by eLife and several open-access publishers.
Open Journal Systems (PKP)
CRediT plugin available; broad open-access reach.
Scholastica
CRediT-aware with structured JATS export.
The structured-vs-narrative gap
Support for CRediT varies widely. Many publishers collect a narrative paragraph at the end of the manuscript; fewer emit structured CRediT metadata that propagates downstream to Crossref, ORCID, and discovery systems. The Hosseini et al. (2026) study in Learned Publishing documents this inconsistency across publishers, research domains, and countries.
A public implementation scorecard launches with CASRAI Dictionary v2026.2 (September 2026). Self-assessments now accepted via /for-publishers/scorecard.
