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CONTRIBUTION GUIDE

Our mission statement: Making “best paper” awards for young researchers more equitable and open. 🌟

💛 Contributing

We invite early- and mid-career researchers across disciplines to contribute to the project.

General:

We welcome researchers with all backgrounds and walks of life o contribute to any Stage (see above) of this project.
You dont need any speciall research skills - just attention to detail, Internet access and some time available.
Fill in the Expression Of Interest (EOI) form at: https://forms.gle/J3WPWMTAyWJy3k1v9, so we hae your names and contact details. Demogrphic questions are optional, but would be helpful.
To enable broad global participation, we will mostly work asynchroniously online until we complete all stages of the project.
For more details on how to contribute and how we recognize contributions please see the more detailed sections below.
We expect all project contributors to familiarise themselves and follow our CODE OF CONDUCT.
If you would like to comment on this project or provide suggestions to improve this project, feel free to open an issue on GitHub or reach directly to us via a dedicated Slack channel (invites will be sent to project participants who filled in the EOI form: https://forms.gle/J3WPWMTAyWJy3k1v9) or email (losialagisz@gmail.com).
We will email specific contributing instructions to the project participants, for the project tasks they sign up to.
We will provide clarifications and answer questions via email and dedicated Slack channel, as needed (so get in touch when you need help or explanations). Please let us know when you are stuck or you dont have time to finish a given task, so we can find replacement and keep moving forward.
We will periodicall post updates on project progress on Slack and GitHub.
All contributions to this project are voluntary. We will not proide financial renumaration for any contributions (we have no funding).
You can withdraw from the project at any time.

🧱 Contributions by stage

You can contribute to any step withing the 4 main Stages of this project:

Stage 1: Planning

Preparing protocol: this is intitially done by the project leads, but feedback can be provided by all project participants.
Piloting: this is done by the project leads.
Registration: this is done by the project leads.
Hackathon preparation: this is done by the project leads.

Stage 2: Screening

Screening journal lists from 27 Scimago Subject Areas rankings: open for contributions.
Creating award shortlist: open for contributions.
Checking shortlists: open for contributions.

Stage 3: Data extraction

Data extraction for included awards: open for contributions.
Collecting additional data on past winners: open for contributions.
Data cross-checking: open for contributions.
Preliminary analyses: open for contributions.

Stage 4: Analyses and writing

Final analyses: this is done by the project leads.
Draft report: this is done by the project leads.
Contributors feedback: open for contributions.
Final report: open for contributions.
Sharing data and code in GitHub repository: this is done by the project leads.
Preprint in MetaRxiv: this is done by the project leads.
Manuscript submission: this is done by the project leads.

💝 Acknowledgement of contributions

All project participants who contributed any amount of work, and provided their details, will be acknowledged as project contributors on the project page, report, presentations, and manuscript. We will mainly use a CRediT-like statement format, but we will also keep a more detailed record of individual contributions to specific tasks within the stages of the project. This record will be also made publicly availabe as part of the open project materials (as a publicly available dataset). You can request to have your details removed or obscured at any time.

📄 Co-authorship

Project participants with substantial and high-quality contributions (as defined below) will become co-authors of the manuscript. They will contribute to any or all of these: data extraction, checking, analyses and/or report drafting.

Substantial contributions could be achieved by performing any 3 or more of the tasks listed below (each task can be done for more than one Subject Area and each will be independently counted as one task, e.g. you can screen three Subject Areas and this will be counted as three tasks in total):

completing screening for one Subject Area (100 journals or until 10 eligible awards are found, whichever earlier)
extracting award data for one Subject Area (up to 10 eligible awards fully extracted)
extracting past winners data for one Subject Area (up to 10 awards)
cross checking any of the above tasks

IMPORTANT: Authorship is also coditional on reading and approving the final manuscript draft before submission and providing all personal information (e.g., name, affiliation, email) needed for the submission.

Additional contribution oportunities will be available via data cleaning, analyses, visualisations and writing, as needed and at the discretion of the project leads.

In the manuscript, first and last authorship positions will be reserved to the project leads (they could be co-first and co-last positions). Subsequent authorship positions will be determined by the total amount and quality of contributions, as in the project records. For equal contributions the order of mid-authorship will be alphabetic. All authors must read and approve the final manuscript draft before submission. The manuscript will contain a CRediT statement detailing the roles of individual authors and contributors.

📍 Final notes

Project leads reserve the right to interpret and change the contribution rules at any time, if such need arises. In case of any disputes decisions of project leads will be final.

🔧 Maintainer(s)

Losia Lagisz.

🖍️ License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (cc-by).