| Conceptual Contributions | - Contribute the key idea behind the work
- Have critical insight that breaks a conceptual logjam
- Create theoretical ideas or frameworks
- Contribute relevant literature
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| Methodological Contributions | - Bring expertise in a particular research approach
- Develop or share relevant software for modeling or analysis
- Bring statistical expertise
- Create visualizations that help create understanding during analysis
- Provide data curation
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| Resource Contributions | - Help obtain grant funding
- Contribute funds from an existing source
- Possess relevant specialized skills (either self or staff)
- Build or provide access to specialized equipment or facilities
- Provide critical materials (e.g., cell lines)
- Provide existing data sets
- Recruit research participants
- Especially if special populations are required
- Establishing relations to organizations that link to relevant populations
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| Project Level Contributions | - Provide overall project administration, leadership
- Especially important for geographically distributed projects
- Especially important for cross-disciplinary collaborations
- Be a liaison to a key community or organization
- Introduce or refer important people to team members
- Support team building, getting researchers to speak the same language, trust each other, mentor
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| Dissemination Contributions | - Take leadership in creating the papers
- Do significant work in editing papers for clarification and transparency
- Create and give presentations
- Translate the research to practitioners and the public
- Create useful visualizations of data or the models for others to understand
- Commercialize the technologies, acquire patents
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