Verified Contributor Directory

Verified contributors

ORCID-authenticated researchers, editors, and publishers who implement CRediT. Every journal and blog link listed here has passed automated screening and was reviewed by a CASRAI editor before going live.

Transparency

How verification works

A “verified” entry in this directory clears three independent gates. Payment is only the first, and it never buys the badge.

Identity. Every member signs in with ORCID. The directory shows an ORCID-authenticated identity, not a self-typed name. This is free and required.
Membership. A monthly supporting subscription funds the directory and the editorial review, and deters spam. On its own it grants a profile, not a journal-role link.
Automated pre-screen, then editorial review. Every journal or blog link first runs through an automated pre-screen: it must sit on a real, established domain (measured from web-presence data), fall within an allowed sector, not redirect off-site, and not be a dead link. A link that clears the pre-screen is then reviewed and approved by a CASRAI editor before it goes live — a real person checks each journal claim before it appears on the directory.

Membership funds the directory; it does not buy the badge. Journal and blog links are screened automatically and then reviewed and approved by a CASRAI editor before they go live — this two-layer, human-edited gate is what keeps the directory a genuine identity registry, not an open link target. CASRAI may also remove any entry later found to be abusive or misrepresented.

Entity & discoverability

A knowledge-graph anchor for contributor identity

Every verified profile in this directory is published as a structured, machine-readable Schema.org Person entity with a stable URL — its @id — and sameAs links to the contributor’s ORCID iD, LinkedIn, personal website, and the journals they edit. The page you are reading is not just a list of names; it is a set of resolvable, cross-linked identifiers a machine can follow.

Publishing this verifiable, cross-linked structured data makes casrai.org one corroborating, authoritative source in the wider web of entity references that search engines and knowledge graphs consume to understand who a person is and what they are expert in — the same role ORCID, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, and institutional pages already play. We publish structured, verifiable data that search engines and knowledge graphs can consume; we don’t manipulate or guarantee anything about how those systems use it.

This complements LinkedIn rather than competing with it. LinkedIn carries a contributor’s professional history; CASRAI carries their verified scholarly and editorial contribution roles, mapped to the CRediT standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.104-2022) with resolvable role URIs — a verifiable dimension of expertise that LinkedIn does not provide.

For both the contributor and the journals they are tied to, an ORCID-verified, CRediT-role-bearing, automatically-verified profile is a strong, independent signal of the kind search engines describe as E-E-A-T — experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness. It is structured, verifiable data that search engines and knowledge graphs can consume, supporting discoverability and E-E-A-T by evidencing real expertise and authoritativeness.

How your profile connects to the CRediT taxonomy

Each profile is anchored in the CRediT taxonomy — the controlled vocabulary of 14 contributor roles this directory uses to describe editorial and scholarly work. Profiles are emitted using the exact same Person + roleName encoding documented on our CRediT JSON-LD reference, so the machine-readable data behind a profile matches the published standard. If you are establishing your own listing, the guidance for authors explains how to map your contributions to those roles.

The directory

Verified contributors

Higher membership tiers and priority placements appear first, then alphabetically. Each profile links to the contributor's ORCID-verified identity and their verified journal roles.

Gabriel Nieves Castro

Verified Publisher

Chief Strategy Officer, CASRAI

Verified

Chief Strategy Officer, CASRAI · 4 verified journal / editorial roles.

The directory is part of CASRAI’s work on the CRediT taxonomy. To establish your own ORCID-verified profile and add journal roles — each link screened automatically and reviewed by a CASRAI editor before it goes live — list yourself. Run a journal or blog on WordPress? The free CASRAI CRediT Connector plugin links your site back to your profile to complete the knowledge-graph identity handshake.