The phrase "a common contributor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone or something that frequently plays a role in a particular situation or outcome.
Example: "In many environmental issues, pollution is a common contributor to the decline of biodiversity."
Alternatives: "a frequent factor" or "a typical contributor".
Safety officials increasingly complain about the difficulty of eliminating human error and a common contributor, inattention.
In children, a common contributor to acquired strabismus is farsightedness (hyperopia), which, when severe enough, can secondarily cause the eyes to cross as the child tries to focus on an object (accommodative esotropia).
Communication failure is a common contributor to adverse events.
Our results suggest that natural variation in miRNA biogenesis resulting from cis mutations is a common contributor to phenotypic variation in plants.
Ammonia is a natural component of sediments and has been identified as a common contributor to toxicity in marine sediment, elutriate and porewater testing.
While several factors contribute to program success (and failure), systems integration (SI) emerges as a common contributor in both public and private sectors.
Unavailability of previous studies for comparison was a more common contributor in the pre-PACS [picture archiving and communication system] era, but should not be a significant factor in the current digital age.
Furthermore, results from these analyses help to disentangle effects due to restricted fetal growth as a significant common contributor to the co-occurrence of these disorders in the low range of birth weight scale (<2500 g).
The extent to which epiallelic variation is an important common contributor to phenotypic variation in natural plant populations and its consequences on fitness remain unknown.
Ischemic heart disease is an important and common contributor to the development of heart failure.
A common underlying contributor to IUGR is placental hypoxia due to impaired placental invasion of maternal blood vessels and/or poor placental vascular development that diminishes the fetal vascular surface area available for oxygen diffusion [7].
