Is authordown safe to use?

authordown has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.1.0). DepScope rates its health at 50/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of authordown?

The latest version of authordown is 0.1.0, released 2026-03-24.

Does authordown have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of authordown.

Is authordown deprecated?

No, authordown is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.1.0 (2026-03-24).

What are alternatives to authordown?

DepScope has no curated alternatives for authordown at this time.

What license does authordown use?

authordown is licensed under AGPL-3.

authordown

cranv0.1.0

Author Metadata Management and Manuscript Front Matter. Manage author metadata and generate manuscript front matter. It produces title pages, acknowledgements, conflicts of interest, and contribution sections for large author lists, with helpers for validating and reading common spreadsheet formats.

License AGPL-3network copyleft0 versions1 maintainers2 deps129 weekly dl

zh1peng/authordown

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 50/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

3/20

popularity

25/25

security

0/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (2)

openxlsx rlang

API access

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First published · 2026-03-24 09:37:28

Last updated · 2026-03-24T08:20:08+00:00