E Contribution to individual publications

Table E.1: Contributions to individual publications. Contributions in percent from all authors for each contribution role and publication. Author contribution definitions according to the CRediT Taxonomy (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/authorship).
Contributor Role: Role Definition (according to CRediT Taxonomy) Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims. 80 90 10 90
Data Curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse. 100 80 50 100
Formal Analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data. 100 50 40 100
Funding Acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication. 0 0 0 0
Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection. 100 80 20 100
Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models 90 80 30 100
Project Administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution. 0 0 0 0
Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools. 0 0 0 0
Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components. 100 50 50 100
Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team. 0 80 0 0
Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs. 100 80 20 100
Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation. 100 50 0 100
Writing – Original Draft Preparation: Creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation). 100 70 10 100
Writing – Review & Editing: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages. 30 50 20 50