From contribution to recognition
CRediT credits the paper. What credits you?
You list your contributor roles on every submission — but that credit stays trapped inside individual articles: scattered, unlinked, and easy for the wrong same-name person to absorb. Here's the free step that turns a career of CRediT statements into one verified, lasting record of who you are and what you did.
The gap CRediT leaves
Credit that isn’t tied to you, leaks.
CRediT made who did what explicit — a genuine fix. But it fixed it one paper at a time. There is no single, verified, public place that shows your contribution profile across your work — so the recognition you earned is fragmented across PDFs and journal mastheads.
And it’s getting riskier, not safer: the committees, funders and collaborators who decide your career increasingly look you up through search engines and AI assistants. If those tools can’t tell which same-name person did the work — and without a resolved identity, they’re guessing — your citations and your standing drift to someone else. CRediT earned you the credit. Nothing yet makes it stick to you.
The best practice
ORCID + CRediT, in one verified home
The persistent-identifier community already converged on the fix: anchor your contributions to your ORCID iD. CRediT supplies the roles; ORCID supplies the identity; a verified profile is where they become a single record. CASRAI — the body that stewards CRediT — is that home, on the very domain the research world cites for the standard.
This isn’t a workaround we invented; it’s the direction the field is already moving (ORCID’s own work on contributor recognition is built on exactly this pairing). The step almost no author takes is simply to claim it — once, for free — so every role you perform from here on accrues to one identity instead of evaporating into the next PDF.
Transparent by design
Start free. Upgrade only if you want to be public.
| What you get | Free ORCID sign-in | Membership from $150/mo |
|---|---|---|
| ORCID-verified identity | ||
| Claim CRediT contributions against your DOIs | ||
| Draft your author profile | ||
| Public profile in the directory (indexed, discoverable) | ||
| Verified journal / editorial roles | ||
| Dofollow to your site + verified-author badge |
No card needed to start — sign in with ORCID and claim your contributions today.
Four steps
How it works
- 1
Sign in with your ORCID iD
Free, about 30 seconds, no new password. Your ORCID is the identity anchor everything hangs from.
- 2
Claim your CRediT contributions
Assign the canonical contributor roles (Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing…) against your DOIs — machine-readable credit tied to you.
- 3
Draft your contributor profile
Your bio and the journals or publications you serve. Yours to build, free.
- 4
Optional: publish & verify
A membership makes your profile public in the directory and human-reviews your journal / editorial roles before they appear.
Built for how you actually work
Whoever you are, this works for you.
The need is the same at every career stage — to be found, believed, and credited. What it unlocks is different for each of you.
Early-career & postdocs
Get noticed before you’re established.
You don’t have a reputation yet — a verified, authoritative profile builds one. Put your name and your work in front of the committees who decide your next position, grant, and citation.
Professors & PIs
Own your name in your field.
Consolidate a career of scattered papers, datasets and roles under one verified identity — and become the named authority your field, and the AI everyone now asks, points to.
Medical, legal & expert authors
The E-E-A-T signal Google now demands.
For health, finance and legal content, search engines and AI weight author credibility heavily. A third-party-verified identity on a domain academia cites is exactly that signal — for you.
Journal editors & reviewers
Make your service visible — and verified.
Editorial and peer-review work rarely shows up anywhere searchable. A reviewed, public record of the titles you serve turns invisible labour into recognised authority.
Graduate students
Start your reputation early.
The sooner a verified scholarly identity exists in your name, the more it compounds. Begin building the authority that follows you across every paper, application and job.
Research groups & labs
Make every member discoverable.
A verified identity for each contributor strengthens the whole group’s visibility — and makes sure every member is credited for exactly what they did, not buried in an author list.
Free · ORCID · ~30 seconds
Make your CRediT contributions yours — for good.
Sign in with your ORCID and claim your contributions. No card, no commitment — just the recognition step almost no author takes.
Questions
Straight answers
Do I need a CASRAI account to use CRediT?
No — and we’d never pretend otherwise. CRediT is free and open, and your journal handles the statement inside the paper. A CASRAI account is the recognition layer: it turns those per-paper roles into one verified, portable record tied to you. Everything on this page’s free tier costs nothing.
What’s free, and what needs a membership?
Free: sign in with ORCID, claim your CRediT contributions against your DOIs, and draft your profile. A membership is only needed to make your profile public in the directory, verify the journals/editorial roles you hold, and add the dofollow + verified-author badge.
How is this different from ORCID or Google Scholar?
ORCID is an identifier; Google Scholar is a citation index. This is a vetted contribution-and-identity record — what you did, verified, on the domain that stewards the CRediT standard. It complements both rather than replacing them.
Is my contribution record really mine?
Yes. It’s anchored to your ORCID iD and follows you across institutions and publishers. Your identity is always yours, free; membership only governs the public, verified directory listing.
Why does tying it to my identity matter?
Because credit that isn’t tied to a resolved identity leaks. Search engines and AI assistants — which committees, funders and collaborators now use to look you up — can’t reliably tell which same-name person did the work. A verified, ORCID-anchored record removes the guesswork so the recognition lands on you.
Talk to a human
Questions before you join, or stuck on a step? Email membership@casrai.org
A real person — not a bot — replies in under an hour.
