Talk about author contributions

[larsvilhuber]

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/s/authorship#loc-author-contributions and https://casrai.org/credit/. While not typical in social sciences (in particular in economics) might warrant a discussion.

The data (and code) authorship != paper authorship is not at all common in Economics. One example I can think of is https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20170704, with replication package https://doi.org/10.3886/E110642V1 explicitly single-authored by one of the authors. I've also seen some papers (need to dig out references) where Github with code might be "Author A + RA" whereas paper is "Author A + Author B".

The generic guidance I have in mind is https://casrai.org/credit/, which has been adopted by some journals, such as PLOS https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/s/authorship#loc-author-contributions, where it applies to the paper. If considering the data + the code as distinct first-class research objects, the CRediT taxonomy directly applies there as well, and there's nothing that requires that the two be the same.