Institutional Webpage: Definition

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Worked examples

Is an instance

A university department's staff directory entry for a named faculty member, hosted on the university's own domain, cited as evidence of current affiliation.

Is an instance

A research-group page listing current members and their institutional email addresses, maintained by departmental administrative staff rather than the researchers themselves.

An institutional webpage is a page hosted on an institution’s own website — a departmental staff listing, a research-group page, or a faculty profile on the university’s domain — that documents an author’s affiliation with that institution. It is distinct from a researcher webpage, which is personally maintained and hosted, often independently of the institution: an institutional webpage is controlled and hosted by the institution itself, which is part of why funders and publishers sometimes accept a link to one as evidence of an author’s current affiliation, where a personal page carries less weight for that purpose.

Its role in verifying affiliation

In CRIS and research-information contexts, an institutional webpage is one of several ways an affiliation claim can be corroborated, alongside a formal ROR record for the institution itself or an entry in the institutional repository. It carries less structured, machine-actionable identification value than a persistent identifier does, since it is a URL rather than a resolvable, versioned ID: its content, and even its continued existence, can change as staff move institutions, retire, or as departments reorganise or migrate their web platforms, whereas a persistent identifier is designed to remain resolvable and to record change history rather than simply disappearing.

Practical use

Grant applications, biosketches, and some publisher submission systems ask for a link to an institutional webpage specifically — rather than any personal site — as a lightweight, no-cost way of corroborating affiliation without requiring a formal institutional-identifier lookup, which is why keeping such pages current is a routine administrative task for research offices supporting active researchers.

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Institutional webpage"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/institutional-webpage" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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  "sameAs": [],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-08-23T05:35:46",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}