Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A research nurse who coordinated patient recruitment, named in the acknowledgements with their consent
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A funder thanked in a generic 'we acknowledge funding from X' line is not an acknowledged contributor in the named-person sense
Editorial commentary
Acknowledged contributors should be named with their specific contribution (e.g., ‘patient recruitment’, ‘language editing’, ‘statistical advice’) and should have consented to acknowledgement. The acknowledgement section is the canonical location for contributions outside the CRediT taxonomy or below the authorship threshold.
References
- ICMJE Recommendations (2024)
- COPE Authorship Discussion Document (2019)
Also known as
Acknowledged person · Named acknowledgement
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Acknowledged contributor"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/acknowledged-contributor" />json
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "Acknowledged contributor",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/acknowledged-contributor",
"description": "An individual whose contribution to a research output is recognised in the acknowledgements section rather than by authorship, typically because their contribution does not meet all four ICMJE authorship criteria but is substantive enough to warrant named credit.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/credit-extensions-and-adjacent-contribution-vocabularies/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/acknowledged-contributor",
"sameAs": [
"Acknowledged person",
"Named acknowledgement"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
