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Reviewer role typology

A controlled vocabulary for distinguishing types of peer-review activity — e.g., manuscript peer reviewer, grant reviewer, conference programme committee member, data peer reviewer, software peer reviewer, reproducibility reviewer — used to give differentiated credit for review work.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A researcher's ORCID record showing reviews disaggregated by type: 20 manuscript reviews, 5 grant reviews, 2 reproducibility reviews

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A single 'reviews' count with no type information loses the typology's distinctions

Editorial commentary

Codified in the NISO Peer Review Terminology Recommended Practice (NISO RP-29-2024), the typology supports ORCID review records and helps distinguish a manuscript reviewer for a small workshop from a senior reviewer at a high-impact journal, or from a code reviewer doing reproducibility checks.

References

NISO Peer Review Terminology Recommended Practice (NISO RP-29-2024)
ORCID Peer Review Records documentation

Also known as

Peer review activity types · Reviewer type vocabulary

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

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      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/reviewer-role-typology" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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