Introducing Contributorship Badges - The Ubiquity Press Blog

"We are now rolling out Contributorship Badges for authors on the Ubiquity journals platform, in collaboration with the Mozilla Science Lab, ORCiD, the Wellcome Trust, Digital Science, PLOS and BioMed Central. The badges help authors claim specific credit for the roles they’ve played in the production of a paper. This not only ensures that everyone receives fair credit for their contribution, but also helps specialist contributors (e.g. of coding or data curation) to be given more weighting within their communities ..."