Overview
Where IEEE stands on CRediT
IEEE governs authorship through its own publication-ethics and authorship policy, which sets out the criteria for being named an author and for acknowledging other contributors. Structured CRediT capture is available on some IEEE titles via ScholarOne, but IEEE has not announced a single portfolio-wide CRediT mandate.
Scope: Per-journal; authorship handled under the IEEE authorship policy, with structured CRediT capture available on some titles
Implementation details
How CRediT is captured and produced
| Submission system | ScholarOne Manuscripts |
| JATS implementation | IEEE produces its own production XML; where a journal captures CRediT in ScholarOne, the role data is carried into the article metadata. Coverage of structured CRediT is not uniform across the IEEE portfolio. |
| Production workflow | IEEE runs its own production and indexing pipeline feeding IEEE Xplore. For journals that capture CRediT, the roles are carried into the article metadata and Crossref deposit alongside the article DOI. |
For authors
Author guidance — submitting to a IEEE journal
When submitting to an IEEE journal, check the specific publications author guidelines, which set out IEEEs authorship criteria. Where the journal supports CRediT in ScholarOne, complete the contributor-role assignment for each author. Provide ORCID iDs, which IEEE encourages and many titles require for the corresponding author.
For general CRediT submission guidance across publishers, see CRediT for authors.
Sample journals
Representative IEEE titles with CRediT capture
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- IEEE Access
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- IEEE Communications Magazine
Adoption history
Notable milestones
IEEE is the largest technical professional organisation in engineering and computer science. Its long-standing authorship and publication-ethics policy predates CRediT; structured CRediT adoption has been gradual and journal-by-journal rather than a single announcement.
Notes
Caveats and context
IEEE publishes a very large conference-proceedings programme in addition to its journals; the contribution-reporting conventions for proceedings differ from those for the journal titles.
Frequently asked
Common questions about IEEE and CRediT
- Does IEEE require CRediT contributor statements?
- It depends on the journal. IEEE supports CRediT on a per-journal opt-in basis. IEEE governs authorship through its own publication-ethics and authorship policy, which sets out the criteria for being named an author and for acknowledging other contributors. Structured CRediT capture is available on some IEEE titles via ScholarOne, but IEEE has not announced a single portfolio-wide CRediT mandate.
- Which IEEE journals support CRediT?
- Representative IEEE titles known to support structured CRediT capture include Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Access. Scope: Per-journal; authorship handled under the IEEE authorship policy, with structured CRediT capture available on some titles. Check the individual journals author instructions to confirm the current contributor-roles policy.
- How do I add CRediT to my IEEE submission?
- When submitting to an IEEE journal, check the specific publications author guidelines, which set out IEEEs authorship criteria. Where the journal supports CRediT in ScholarOne, complete the contributor-role assignment for each author. Provide ORCID iDs, which IEEE encourages and many titles require for the corresponding author.
- What submission system does IEEE use for CRediT capture?
- IEEE uses ScholarOne Manuscripts. IEEE produces its own production XML; where a journal captures CRediT in ScholarOne, the role data is carried into the article metadata. Coverage of structured CRediT is not uniform across the IEEE portfolio.
- When did IEEE adopt CRediT?
- IEEE has not made a single portfolio-wide CRediT-adoption announcement; coverage has expanded steadily on a per-journal basis. IEEE is the largest technical professional organisation in engineering and computer science. Its long-standing authorship and publication-ethics policy predates CRediT; structured CRediT adoption has been gradual and journal-by-journal rather than a single announcement.
References
Sources
- IEEE Author Center — publishing ethics and authorship
