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.
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Structured CRediT capture in the submission flow; production-grade JATS output.
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Supported via a third-party or opt-in module on the submission system.
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Supported but not required; per-journal opt-in at the editors discretion.
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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 20 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
8 publishersStructured CRediT capture in the submission flow; production-grade JATS output.
AGU
NativeAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU)
~25 journals · adopted 2017
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 →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 2015
Cell Press first began offering CRediT to authors in 2015, per Elsevier’s own press release (PRNewswire, Dec 10, 2019) — ahead of the 2022 ANSI/NISO...
Read deep-dive →eLife
NativeeLife Sciences Publications, Ltd (non-profit)
~1 journals · adopted 2017
eLife announced the introduction of CRediT for author contributions on Jan 4, 2017 (per eLife’s own "Inside eLife" post) and requires a structured CRediT...
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 →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 →Springer Nature
NativeHoltzbrinck Publishing Group
~3,000 journals
Springer Nature requires CRediT contributor statements across the Nature portfolio and supports structured capture across the wider Springer and BMC journal...
Read deep-dive →Plugin
1 publishersSupported via a third-party or opt-in module on the submission system.
Available
4 publishersSupported but not required; per-journal opt-in at the editors discretion.
AAAS
AvailableAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
~6 journals
Per AAAS’s own Science Journals editorial-policies page: "Science journals encourage all authors to state their contribution to the study in the...
Read deep-dive →APS
AvailableAmerican Physiological Society (APS)
~15 journals
Per APS’s own "Information for Authors" page (journals.physiology.org/author-info): "Authors are encouraged to use the CRediT 'Contributor Roles Taxonomy'...
Read deep-dive →IOP Publishing
AvailableIOP Publishing (Institute of Physics)
~85 journals · adopted 2025
Per IOP Publishing’s own news release (12 May 2025) and confirmed by NISO’s June 2025 adopter post: "IOP Publishing is introducing the Contributor Role...
Read deep-dive →Royal Society of Chemistry
AvailableRoyal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
~50 journals · adopted 2020
Per RSC’s own author-responsibilities page (rsc.org): "We strongly recommend you use CRediT... for standardised contribution descriptions." RSC announced a...
Read deep-dive →Variable
7 publishersCoverage varies across the portfolio; some titles native, some narrative-only.
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 →Karger
VariableS. Karger AG
~120 journals
Per Karger’s own publication-ethics page (karger.com/pages/publication-ethics), CRediT is recommended as a structuring aid for the (narrative) Author...
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 →SAGE Publishing
VariableSAGE Publications
~1,100 journals
Per SAGE’s own CRediT page: "Please note that not all of Sage's journals have adopted CRediT." This directly contradicts the previous portfolio-wide...
Read deep-dive →Taylor & Francis
VariableInforma plc
~2,700 journals
Taylor & Francis is widely assumed to support CRediT on a per-journal opt-in basis across its very broad portfolio, but CASRAI could not independently...
Read deep-dive →Wiley
VariableJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.
~1,700 journals
Per Wiley’s own author-services CRediT page: "Journals mandating CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) will enable authors to provide information on...
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.
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. Hosseini, Kerridge, Allen, Kiermer & Holmes (2026), “Enhancing, Understanding and Adoption of the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)”, Learned Publishing (DOI 10.1002/leap.2048), is co-written from within the CRediT Standing Committee and is the most current academic treatment of adoption we're aware of — the full text sits behind a paywall CASRAI hasn't been able to clear, so see our sourced review for exactly what is and isn't verifiable from the public abstract, rather than assuming this page's framing reflects the paper's specific findings.
Self-assessments accepted via /for-publishers/scorecard.
