Implementation case studies
Real institutional and publisher rollouts of CRediT, narrative-CV pipelines and CASRAI vocabulary integration — what worked, what did not, and what we would do differently.
The case-study library ships with site release v2026.2 in September 2026. The cards below show the studies currently in review. We deliberately favour honest accounts — including the bits that did not work — over polished retrospectives, on the principle that adoption is faster when peer institutions can see the failure modes alongside the successes.
The five studies in the first release cover a UK Russell Group CRIS rollout, a US NIH-funded biomedical institute, a Latin American open-access publisher rolling out the OJS CRediT plugin, a Southeast Asian library-led adoption, and a UK consortium running an end-to-end narrative-CV pipeline. The second release (v2026.3, planned for early 2027) will add at least three more, including a humanities-focused study and an ARC ERA reporting case from Australia.
UK research-intensive university (anonymised pending publication)
Pure-based CRIS migration with explicit CRediT ingestion goals, narrative-CV pipeline for UKRI applications, and library-led researcher training across four faculties.
NIH-funded research institute
VIVO researcher profiles populated with CRediT-derived contribution patterns, NSPM-33 disclosure alignment, and tenure-and-promotion committee training on contribution-aware evaluation.
SciELO-network publisher (regional)
OJS CRediT plugin deployment across a journal portfolio, author-training programme in Portuguese and Spanish, and downstream metadata flow to Crossref deposit.
Singapore Management University Library
Library-led rollout of researcher CRediT literacy, ORCID-registration drive, and integration with the institutional research-information system.
UK funder-institute consortium
End-to-end pipeline from CRediT-tagged publications to populated R4RI narrative modules, used in real UKRI grant submissions across a 12-month evaluation period.
CASRAI invites institutions, publishers and infrastructure providers to submit case-study contributions for inclusion in v2026.2 and v2026.3. We are particularly interested in stories that document where the implementation broke, why, and what was learned. The governance page documents the contribution process and the editorial criteria; the NISO CRediT Standing Committee reviews substantive contributions before publication.
