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This R package f.x. states:

"Kurt Hornik [ctb]"

I assume this abbreviation is coming from academic publishing - hence why I ask it here.

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ctb = Contributor.

It's not so much about academic publishing, but (academic/open source) software. One has authors and contributors. Contributors added a bit of code, but presumably did not contribute to the overall design efforts.

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