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.

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· Last updated 5 Sept 2026

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Reviewer role typology is a controlled vocabulary that distinguishes different kinds of peer-review activity — manuscript reviewer, grant reviewer, conference programme-committee member, data peer reviewer, software peer reviewer, and reproducibility reviewer among them — so that review work can be credited with the same granularity CRediT brings to authorship. Codified in the NISO Peer Review Terminology Recommended Practice (NISO RP-29-2024), the typology underpins how platforms like ORCID structure a researcher’s review record.

How it differs from related terms: Peer reviewer contribution is the underlying activity being classified; the typology is the classification scheme itself. A reproducibility reviewer — who checks that a paper’s code and data actually reproduce its reported results — is one specific type this vocabulary distinguishes from a standard manuscript reviewer assessing the argument and evidence.

Without a typology, a researcher’s review record collapses into one undifferentiated count; with it, a CV or ORCID record can show, for example, twenty manuscript reviews alongside five grant reviews and two reproducibility checks, each a distinct and separately creditable form of labour.

References

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

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