Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A senior researcher who provided weekly guidance to an early-career fellow on grant strategy and methodology, acknowledged in the fellow's narrative CV
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A one-off advice email is not mentorship in the contribution sense
Editorial commentary
Increasingly captured in narrative CVs and resume-for-researcher formats as a recognised research activity. Mentorship that materially shaped a specific output may be acknowledged on that output; the broader mentoring relationship is documented in the mentor’s and mentee’s narrative records.
References
- Royal Society R4RI Resume for Researchers (2020 v1, 2024 mandate)
- DORA Declaration (2012)
Also known as
Mentoring · Career mentorship
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
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vocab-term="Mentorship contribution"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/mentorship-contribution" />json
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"Mentoring",
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