Couldn’t you require someone to cite/add as a coauthor the day collector? When I was a paid by the hour lab assistant I was added as last author on the papers

Couldn’t you require someone to cite/add as a coauthor the day collector? When I was a paid by the hour lab assistant I was added as last author on the papers I assisted with since I sat in on meetings and sometimes flagged protocol design errors so we’d be able to use what we collected. (But that was HCI, more of a social science akin to psychology , hard sciences seem less collaborative)