Summary

• Add a self-contained reputation credit taxonomy guard for the Community & User Reputation System.
• Validate submitted reputation/credit payloads strictly against the 14 standard CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) roles.
• Block unstructured or arbitrary credits from inflating scores.
• Generate deterministic reviewer artifacts in JSON, Markdown, SVG, GIF, and MP4 demo formats.

Distinct scope

This specifically enforces structural taxonomy for credit assignments. It is entirely distinct from affiliation attestation guards, peer review routing logic, blind review implementations, or general leaderboards.

Validation

• npm test
• node scripts/demo.js
• ffmpeg -f lavfi ...
• git diff --check

Demo video

• reputation-credit-taxonomy-guard/reports/reputation-credit-demo.mp4
• reputation-credit-taxonomy-guard/reports/demo.gif

Safety

Synthetic data only. No live API credentials, external user profiles, real ORCID data, or external taxonomy APIs are utilized. Fully dependency-free module.

/claim #15